Know For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1922-10-27 (92 years old)
Deathday
2014-06-11
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also known As
Ruby Ann Wallace
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).
1989
as Mother Sister
1991
as Lucinda Purify
2007
as Mama Lucas
2009
as Mrs. Harper
1982
as Female
1990
as Corrine Dart
1991
as Narrator (voice)
1995
as Evangeline Ferguson
1993
as Rachel
1972
as Ruth
2006
as Nanna Maria
1951
as Rachel
1957
as Lucy Tyler
1961
as Ruth Younger
1950
as Rae Robinson
1967
as Joan Robinson
1997
as Hortence
2005
as Nanny
2011
2001
as Elsie Claviere
1972
as Netta's mother
2011
as Valerie
1990
as Rowena
1968
as Laurie
2000
as Mrs. Henry
1996
as Sophia
1974
as Ruth Campanella
2000
as Grandmother
2013
as Narrator
2007
as Doris
1979
as Grandmother Baxter
1959
as Ruth
1959
as Christine
1995
as Jennie
1963
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
1993
as Narrator
1997
as Self (archive footage)
1946
as Joan
1969
as Lucinda
1982
as Mary Tyrone
2009
as Narrator (voice)
1999
as Mommit Porter
1998
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
1976
as Leah Matanzima
1994
as Grandmother (voice)
2001
as Emelda West
1990
as Jackie's Mother
1998
1999
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
1966
as Vicky Kingsbury
1950
as Connie Brooks (uncredited)
1996
as Indigo
1970
as Self (archive footage)
1948
1974
as Julia Augustine
2011
as Miss Candy
1989
as Self
1980
as Irene Whitfield
1985
as Mrs. Grimes
2004
as Self
1993
as Lydia Wilson
2012
as Annie McCall
1990
as Zora Neale Hurston
2004
as (archive footage)
1958
as Elizabeth
1963
as Thief
2002
1992
as Narrator
1954
as Irma Jackson
2006
as Self
1999
as Margo
2018
as Self (archive footage)
1972
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
1971
as Sue Ann Lucas
2014
1972
as Narrator (voice)
1999
as Narrator (voice)
2007
1999
as Self
2007
as Ms. Ella
1947
as Drugstore Girl
1994
as Mother Abagail Freemantle
1968
as Writer
1983
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