Ruby Dee
Acting
🎂 1922-10-27
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).
Cast credits(114)
Mary Wilson
2000
Self
1971
LaBelle Springbelt
1994
Self - Guest
1968
1974
1985
Catherine Collins
1961
Mammy Watkins
1985
Self
1978
Laura Smith
1963
Grandma (voice)
1995
Narrator (voice)
1988
Mother Abagail Freemantle
1994
Rowena Finch
1951
1999
Herself - Narrator (voice)
1983
Harriet Tubman
1963
Self
2005
Elizabeth Keckley
1988
Faye Williams
1985
Mama Lucas
2007
1988
Herself - Narrator
1998
Narrator
2002
Queen Victoria Haley
1979
Mother Sister
1989
Annie McCall
2012
Female
1982
Margo
1999
Evangeline Ferguson
1995
Lucinda Purify
1991
Hortence
1997
Estelle Williams
1992
Ruth
1972
Ms. Ella
2007
Rae Robinson
1950
Mrs. Grimes
1985
Rachel
1993
Nanny
2005
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
1950
(archive footage)
2004
Narrator (voice)
1999
2003
Ruth Younger
1961
Laurie
1968
Lucy Tyler
1957
Rachel
1951
Indigo
1996
Self (archive footage)
1970
Joan Robinson
1967
Thief
1963
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
1998
Rowena
1990
Zora Neale Hurston
1990
Corrine Dart
1990
Self
1989
Valerie
2011
Nanna Maria
2006
Jackie's Mother
1990
Doris
2007
Elsie Claviere
2001
1980
Sophia
1996
Self (archive footage)
1997
Netta's mother
1972
Self
2014
Lydia Wilson
1993
Jennie
1995
Mother Abagail Freemantle
1994
Miss Candy
2011
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
1999
Sue Ann Lucas
1971
Ruth
1959
Narrator
2013
Ruth Campanella
1974
Lucinda
1969
Narrator
1992
Grandmother (voice)
1994
Christine
1959
Herself
2007
2011
Grandmother
2000
Irma Jackson
1954
Self
2013
Emelda West
2001
Self
2004
Elizabeth
1958
Julia Augustine
1974
Mrs. Harper
2009
Mrs. Henry
2000
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
1972
Grandmother Baxter
1979
Irene Whitfield
1980
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
1963
Self
1998
Self
1999
Narrator
1993
Leah Matanzima
1976
Mommit Porter
1999
Joan
1946
Drugstore Girl
1947
Self
2007
Mary Tyrone
1982
Narrator
1998
1946
Vicky Kingsbury
1966
Self
2002
Narrator (voice)
1972
1948
Narrator (voice)
2009
Narrator (voice)
1991
Self (archive footage)
2018
1948
Self
2006
