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Phylicia Rashād

Phylicia Rashād

Birthday: 1948-06-19 | Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA

Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. In 2004, Rashād became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun. She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaption of A Raisin in the Sun, which earned her the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Rashād was dubbed "the mother" of the African American community at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Phylicia Rashād, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2024
Soul

as    Libba Gardner (voice)

2020
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

as    Grandmother Journey

2020
Black Box

as    Lillian

2020
A Fall from Grace

as    Sarah

2020
Between the World and Me

as    Self

2018
Creed II

as    Mary Anne Creed

2016
Jean-Claude Van Johnson

as    Jane

2015
Creed

as    Mary Anne Creed

2013
Do No Harm

as    Dr. Vanessa Young

2012
Steel Magnolias

as    Clairee

2012
Good Deeds

as    Wilimena Deeds

2011
Change of Plans

as    Dorothy

2010
Frankie & Alice

as    Edna

2010
Just Wright

as    Ella McKnight

2010
For Colored Girls

as    Gilda

2008
A Raisin in the Sun

as    Lena Younger

2001
Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man

as    Cassandra Hawkins

2001
The Old Settler

as    Elizabeth Barney

1999
Little Bill

as    Brenda Glover (voice)

1996
The Babysitter's Seduction

as    Kate Jacobs

1996
Cosby

as    Ruth Lucas

1995
The Possession of Michael D.

as    Dr. Marion Hale (Psychiatrist)

1994
David's Mother

as    Gladys Johnson

1991
Jailbirds

as    Janice Grant

1990
Polly: Comin' Home!

as    Aunt Polly

1989
Polly

as    Aunt Polly