Ruby Dee
Born October 27, 1922 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).
Movies
TV Shows
American Experience
Touched by an Angel
American Playhouse
The Golden Girls
The Defenders
Police Woman
Reading Rainbow
China Beach
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
The Oscars
Spenser: For Hire
The Stand
The Kennedy Center Honors
The Great Adventure
Little Bill
Roots: The Next Generations
Iconoclasts
Hollywood Black
Armchair Theatre
The Atlanta Child Murders
Middle Ages
Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
More Movies
Take a Giant Step
Politics of Love
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
St. Louis Blues
Video Girl
Love at Large
After Goodbye
The Jackie Robinson Story
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Whitewash
The Ernest Green Story
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Easy to Get
Decoration Day
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
The Fight Never Ends
The Balcony
Black Girl
Taking Back Our Town
Go Tell It on the Mountain
The Way Back Home
It's Good to Be Alive
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Sports on the Silver Screen
All God's Children
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
The Stand
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Zora is My Name!
Betty and Coretta
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
A Storm in Summer
Passing Glory
Finding Buck McHenry
Countdown at Kusini
All About Us
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
The Unfinished Journey
Virgin Island
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
That Man of Mine
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Deadlock
The Sheriff
Poitier's Walter Lee
Go Man Go
Tuesday Morning Ride
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
The Wall
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Wedding Band
Love in Syncopation
What a Guy
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
Jazztime Tale
