| Ruby Dee  AKA Ruby Ann Wallace
Born: 27-Oct-1924
Birthplace: Cleveland, OH
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Jackie Robinson Story Father: Edward Nathaniel Wallace
Mother: Gladys Hightower (birth mother)
Brother: Edward
Husband: Frankie Dee Brown (midget, m. 31-Aug-1941, div. 1945)
Husband: Ossie Davis (m. 9-Dec-1948, d. 4-Feb-2005, one son, two daughters)
Son: Guy Davis (blues musician, b. 12-May-1952)
Daughter: Nora Day
Daughter: Hasna Muhammad (doctor)
University: BA, Hunter College (c. 1941)
Emmy 1991 for Decoration Day
Kennedy Center Honor 2004
National Medal of Arts 1995
Hillary Clinton for President
NAACP
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Honorary
Risk Factors: Breast Cancer
TELEVISION
The Guiding Light Martha Frazier (1967)
Peyton Place Alma Miles (1968-69)
Little Bill Alice the Great (1999-)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
American Gangster (19-Oct-2007)
No. 2 (20-Jan-2006)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (6-Mar-2005)
Feast of All Saints (11-Nov-2001)
A Storm in Summer (18-Jan-2000)
Baby Geniuses (12-Mar-1999)
A Simple Wish (11-Jul-1997)
Mr. & Mrs. Loving (31-Mar-1996)
Just Cause (17-Feb-1995)
The Stand (1994)
Cop & 1/2 (2-Apr-1993)
Jungle Fever (5-Jun-1991)
Decoration Day (2-Dec-1990)
Love at Large (9-Mar-1990)
Do the Right Thing (14-Jan-1989)
Windmills of the Gods (7-Feb-1988)
Cat People (2-Apr-1982)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (28-Apr-1979)
Roots: The Next Generations (18-Feb-1979)
Countdown at Kusini (16-Apr-1976)
Buck and the Preacher (17-Mar-1972)
The Incident (5-Nov-1967)
Purlie Victorius (9-Aug-1963)
The Balcony (21-Mar-1963)
A Raisin in the Sun (29-May-1961)
St. Louis Blues (7-Apr-1958)
Our Virgin Island (1958)
Edge of the City (29-Jan-1957)
The Tall Target (17-Aug-1951)
The Jackie Robinson Story (16-May-1950)
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