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(113)
Mary Wilson
2000
Laura Smith
1963
Narrator (voice)
1988
Self
1971
1974
LaBelle Springbelt
1994
Mammy Watkins
1985
Catherine Collins
1961
Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
1988
Self - Guest
1968
Mama Lucas
2007
1985
Self
1978
Mother Abagail Freemantle
1994
Grandma (voice)
1995
Harriet Tubman
1963
Margo
1999
Mother Sister
1989
Evangeline Ferguson
1995
Self
1999
1999
Female
1982
Annie McCall
2012
Lydia Wilson
1993
Elizabeth Keckley
1988
Rae Robinson
1950
Ms. Ella
2007
Grandmother
2000
Queen Victoria Haley
1979
Lucinda Purify
1991
Self
1989
Self
2013
2003
Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
1972
Jackie's Mother
1990
Lucinda
1969
Irene Whitfield
1980
Joan Robinson
1967
Leah Matanzima
1976
Self
2005
Faye Williams
1985
Ruth Younger
1961
Nanna Maria
2006
Elsie Claviere
2001
Indigo
1996
Rowena Finch
1951
Hortence
1997
Connie Brooks (uncredited)
1950
Rowena
1990
Miss Candy
2011
Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
1998
Nanny
2005
Narrator
1992
Mrs. Harper
2009
Mommit Porter
1999
Corrine Dart
1990
Christine
1959
Grandmother Baxter
1979
Self (archive footage)
1970
Ruth
1972
Jennie
1995
Narrator
2013
Estelle Williams
1992
Rachel
1951
Emelda West
2001
Self
2014
Rachel
1993
Self (archive footage)
2018
Lucy Tyler
1957
Ruth Campanella
1974
(archive footage)
2004
Narrator (voice)
1999
Self
2006
Mary Tyrone
1982
Mrs. Henry
2000
Irma Jackson
1954
Ruth
1959
Elizabeth
1958
Laurie
1968
Mrs. Grimes
1985
Doris
2007
Narrator (voice)
1991
Valerie
2011
Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
1999
Self (archive footage)
1997
Herself - Narrator
1998
Sophia
1996
Self
2007
Julia Augustine
1974
Narrator
2002
Netta's mother
1972
1946
Zora Neale Hurston
1990
Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
1963
Joan
1946
Thief
1963
Herself
2007
Sue Ann Lucas
1971
1948
2011
Self
2004
Self
1998
Self
2002
1948
Narrator (voice)
2009
Drugstore Girl
1947
Grandmother (voice)
1994
1980
Vicky Kingsbury
1966
Narrator
1998
Narrator (voice)
1972
Narrator
1993
