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Ruby Dee - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

Ruby Dee - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actress, Writer, Producer.
October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014 - American actress, poet, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She graduated from high school and then went to college. From 1941 to 1945, Ruby Dee was married to singer Frankie Dee Brown, whose last name was later used on stage, and in 1948 she married for the second time, to the actor Ossie Davis. Her Broadway debut took place at the very end of 1943 in the famous musical "South of the Pacific". In subsequent years, she appeared several more times on Broadway, and also made her film debut, but achieved her first success only in 1950 after playing the role of Ray Robinson in the film "The Story of Jackie Robinson" (1950). In the future, Ruby Di did not leave the theater, and throughout her career she actively played both on stage and in the cinema. On the screens, she often appeared with Sidney Poitier, including in the films "On the outskirts of the city" (1956), "Raisins in the sun" (1961) and "Buck and the Preacher" (1972). In the 1960s, Ruby Dee had major roles in political films, such as Days Gone (1963) and The Incident (1967) .
On television, Ruby Dee has appeared in the television series Peyton Place, Golden Girls, Touched by an Angel and many others. She was nominated nine times for an Emmy, and was honored only once for her role in the TV movie “Jewelry Day” in 1991.
She also had notable roles in Cat People (1982), Tropical Fever (1991), Police Officer and a Half (1993), Confrontation (1994) and Fair Trial (1995) .
In 2005, her husband Ossie Davis died, with whom she had been in an open marriage for 57 years. One of their three children, Guy Davis, became a musician. Together with her husband, Dee was and remains a public activist and a member of many organizations, including the NAACP. They were also friends of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. For more than 30 years, Ruby fought breast cancer and eventually managed to defeat the disease. In 2007, Ruby Dee received a Grammy Award for the album With Ossie And Ruby: In This Life Together, dedicated to their life with Ossie Davis. In the same year, she was nominated for an Oscar for her role as Mom Lucas in the film Gangster. Ruby Dee, at 83, became the second oldest, after Gloria Stewart, to be nominated for an Academy Award.


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