Ruby Dee
Nascimento: 1922-10-27
Local: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biografia
Ruby Dee, também conhecida como Ruby Ann Wallace (Cleveland, 27 de outubro de 1922 — New Rochelle, 11 de junho de 2014), foi uma atriz norte-americana, conhecida por atuar em alguns filmes de Spike Lee, como Faça a Coisa Certa e Febre da Selva. Estreou no cinema em 1946, no musical That Man of Mine. Foi casada com o também ator Ossie Davis. Em 2008, a atriz foi indicada ao Óscar de Melhor Atriz (coadjuvante/secundária) pelo filme American Gangster. A atriz faleceu no dia 11 de junho de 2014 na cidade de New Rochelle em Nova York aos 91 anos de idade.
Filmes
Faça a Coisa Certa
Mother Sister
Febre da Selva
Lucinda Purify
O Gângster
Mama Lucas
America
Mrs. Harper
A Marca da Pantera
Female
Armadilhas do Amor
Corrine Dart
Jazztime Tale
Narrator (voice)
Justa Causa
Evangeline Ferguson
Um Tira e Meio
Rachel
Um por Deus, Outro pelo Diabo
Ruth
No. 2
Nanna Maria
Conspiração
Rachel
Um Homem Tem Três Metros de Altura
Lucy Tyler
O Sol Tornará a Brilhar
Ruth Younger
The Jackie Robinson Story
Rae Robinson
The Incident
Joan Robinson
Um Passe de Mágica
Hortence
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Aos Olhos de Deus
Nanny
Politics of Love
Feast of All Saints
Elsie Claviere
Black Girl
Netta's mother
Video Girl
Valerie
Medalha de Honra
Rowena
Uptight
Laurie
Finding Buck McHenry
Mrs. Henry
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Sophia
It's Good to Be Alive
Ruth Campanella
Tempestade de Verão
Grandmother
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
Betty and Coretta
Narrator
Steam
Doris
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Grandmother Baxter
Virgin Island
Ruth
Take a Giant Step
Christine
Tuesday Morning Ride
Jennie
Gone Are the Days!
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
After Goodbye
Narrator
Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
That Man of Mine
Joan
Deadlock
Lucinda
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Mary Tyrone
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
Narrator (voice)
Passing Glory
Mommit Porter
The Wall
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
Countdown at Kusini
Leah Matanzima
Whitewash
Grandmother (voice)
Taking Back Our Town
Emelda West
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
Jackie's Mother
A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
Narrator
A História das Irmãs Delany
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
Neighbours
Vicky Kingsbury
O Ódio é Cego
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
Indigo
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Self (archive footage)
Love in Syncopation
The Fight Never Ends
What a Guy
Wedding Band
Julia Augustine
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
Miss Candy
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
Herself
All God's Children
Irene Whitfield
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Mrs. Grimes
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
Self
The Ernest Green Story
Lydia Wilson
As Mil Palavras
Annie McCall
Zora is My Name!
Zora Neale Hurston
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
(archive footage)
St. Louis Blues
Elizabeth
The Balcony
Thief
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
Self
Color Adjustment
Narrator
Go Man Go
Irma Jackson
Discovering William Greaves
Self
Bebês Geniais
Margo
Poitier's Walter Lee
Self (archive footage)
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
The Sheriff
Sue Ann Lucas
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
On Merit
Narrator (voice)
The Unfinished Journey
Narrator (voice)
Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
Self
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Self
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
All About Us
Ms. Ella
Easy to Get
Drugstore Girl
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
Self
The Way Back Home
Maude
Chelsea D.H.O.
Dr. Bianca Pearson
Now is the Time
Self