Who is Ruby?

Born:
Ruby Ann Wallace


Birth date:
October 27, 1924


Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio

Home:
Harlem, New York

Nationality:
American

Parents:
Marshall Edward Nathaniel Wallace
Emma Amelia Benson
Gladys Hightower (birth mother)

Stage name:
Ruby Dee


Education:
Hunter College High School; Hunter College (degrees in French and Spanish), 1944

Occupation:
Actress, Activist, Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter, Journalist.

Spouse:
Frankie Dee Brown (1941-1945; divorced)
Ossie Davis (1948-2005; till death)


Children:
Guy Davis (blues musician); Nora Day; Hasna Muhammad

Health:
Breast cancer survivor for more than 30 years

Awards:
Grammy (2007; Best Spoken Word Album); Emmy (won 1 in 1990, nominated 8 times); Obie; Drama Desk; Screen Actors Guild (2007, Best Supporting Actress); Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award; Recipient of the National Medal of Arts; Recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors (2004); Academy Award nomination (2007; Best Supporting Actress); Lifetime Achievement Freedom Award (2005 by the National Civil Rights Museum); Westchester County Women's Hall of Fame (2007); Honorary Degree (Princeton University).


Membership:
American Negro Theatre; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Theater:
South Pacific; Cleopatra; Anna Lucasta; Jeb; A Long Way From Home; The Smile of the World; A Raisin in the Sun; Purlie Victorius; Checkmates; The Glass Menagerie

Films:
That Man of Mine (1946; 1st); A Raisin in the Sun; The Jackson Robinson Story; Edge of the City; American Gangster; Gone Are the Days; The Incident; Decoration Day; Jungle Fever; Do the Right Thing; Black Girl; Baby Geniuses; The Unfinished Journey (narrator); Lorraine Hansberry: The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama; The Torture of Mothers; The New Neighbors (narrator); A Thousand Words (2012).


Documentaries:
King: A Film Record...Montgomery to Memphis (1970); Color Adjustment (1992; narrator); A Time to Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner (1998; narrator); Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003; narrator); Beach: A Black Woman Speaks (2003); Lockdown, USA (2006; narrator); A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School (2009; narrator); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2012)

Television:
The First Year; The Fugitive; Guiding Light; Roots: The Next Generations; Ossie and Ruby!; Their Eyes Were Watching God; Golden Girls' (guest appearance); Mr. and Mrs. Loving; Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years; China Beach (guest appearance)

Autobiography:
Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (2000)


Memoir:
My One Good Nerve (1998)



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