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Sports on the Silver Screen
1997
as Self (archive footage)
Ruby Dee
Also known as: Ruby Ann Wallace
Acting
Nationality:United States
Education:Hunter College, Hunter College High School
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Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2000, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004. Dee started her career with the American Negro Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in South Pacific (1943). She met her future husband working together on the play Jeb (1946). She originated the Broadway roles of Ruth Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and reprised the role in the 1961 film and Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins in the Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious (1961) and reprised the role in the 1963 film. She made her film debut in That Man of Mine (1946) before landing leading roles in films such as The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Edge of the City (1957), Take a Giant Step (1959), and Buck and the Preacher (1972). She also acted in the Ossie Davis film Black Girl (1972), and later in the Spike Lee films Do the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). For her performance in American Gangster (2007), Dee was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Female Actor in a Supporting Role. Dee received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in The Doctors and the Nurses (1964) and Decoration Day (1990). She was nominated for her other roles in Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Lincoln (1988), China Beach (1990), and Evening Shade (1993). She also acted in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979), Long Day's Journey into Night (1982), Go Tell It on the Mountain (1985), The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990), and The Stand (1994). She voiced Alice the Great in the Nick Jr.
Filmography (88 movies)
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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
as Self
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9.0
The Stand
1994
as Mother Abagail Freemantle
7.8
7.8
Do the Right Thing
1989
as Mother Sister
7.7
7.7
A Raisin in the Sun
1961
as Ruth Younger
7.6
7.6
St. Louis Blues
1958
as Elizabeth
7.6
7.6
American Gangster
2007
as Mama Lucas
7.5
7.5
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
7.4
7.4
The Incident
1967
as Joan Robinson
7.3
7.3
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009
as Narrator (voice)
7.2
7.2
Betty and Coretta
2013
as Narrator
7.1
7.1
Edge of the City
1957
as Lucy Tyler
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7.0
Discovering William Greaves
2006
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990
as Jackie's Mother
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6.9
The Ernest Green Story
1993
as Lydia Wilson
6.9
6.9
Color Adjustment
1992
as Narrator
6.9
6.9
Decoration Day
1990
as Rowena
6.8
6.8
The Tall Target
1951
as Rachel
6.7
6.7
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989
as Self
6.7
6.7
Gone Are the Days!
1963
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
6.6
6.6
Uptight
1968
Writer
6.6
6.6
It's Good to Be Alive
1974
as Ruth Campanella
6.5
6.5
The Way Back Home
2006
as Maude
6.5
6.5
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007
as Herself
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6.4
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
as Mrs. Grimes
6.4
6.4
Jungle Fever
1991
as Lucinda Purify
6.3
6.3
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950
as Rae Robinson
6.3
6.3
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995
as Jennie
6.3
6.3
Buck and the Preacher
1972
as Ruth
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6.2
Just Cause
1995
as Evangeline Ferguson
6.2
6.2
Video Girl
2011
as Valerie
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6.1
A Thousand Words
2012
as Annie McCall
6.1
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Black Girl
1972
as Netta's mother
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Cat People
1982
as Female
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No. 2
2006
as Nanna Maria
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Whitewash
1994
as Grandmother (voice)
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6.0
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982
as Mary Tyrone
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6.0
The Unfinished Journey
1999
as Narrator (voice)
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5.8
Passing Glory
1999
as Mommit Porter
5.8
5.8
A Storm in Summer
2000
as Grandmother
5.7
5.7
The Wall
1998
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
5.7
5.7
Go Man Go
1954
as Irma Jackson
5.6
5.6
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996
as Sophia
5.5
5.5
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011
as Miss Candy
5.5
5.5
A Simple Wish
1997
as Hortence
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5.4
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005
as Nanny
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5.3
The Sheriff
1971
as Sue Ann Lucas
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
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5.0
Virgin Island
1959
as Ruth
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5.0
The Balcony
1963
as Thief
4.9
4.9
Take a Giant Step
1959
as Christine
4.8
4.8
Love at Large
1990
as Corrine Dart
4.8
4.8
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
4.4
4.4
Feast of All Saints
2001
as Elsie Claviere
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4.4
All About Us
2007
as Ms. Ella
4.4
4.4
Cop & ½
1993
as Rachel
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4.1
Baby Geniuses
1999
as Margo
4.0
4.0
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
as Grandmother Baxter
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4.0
All God's Children
1980
as Irene Whitfield
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4.0
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
as (archive footage)
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3.8
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
as Indigo
3.5
3.5
America
2009
as Mrs. Harper
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3.3
Politics of Love
2011
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2.8
Steam
2007
as Doris
1.5
1.5
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
as Self
1.0
1.0
Taking Back Our Town
2001
as Emelda West
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
1998
as Narrator
Deadlock
1969
as Lucinda
After Goodbye
1993
as Narrator
Jazztime Tale
1991
as Narrator (voice)
Neighbours
1966
as Vicky Kingsbury
The Fight Never Ends
1948
Love in Syncopation
1946
What a Guy
1948
Zora is My Name!
1990
as Zora Neale Hurston
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999
as Self
That Man of Mine
1946
as Joan
Countdown at Kusini
1976
as Leah Matanzima
Wedding Band
1974
as Julia Augustine
Easy to Get
1947
as Drugstore Girl
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004
as Self
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002
as Self
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018
as Self (archive footage)
On Merit
1972
as Narrator (voice)
Finding Buck McHenry
2000
as Mrs. Henry
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
2007
as Self
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998
as Self
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