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Phylicia Rashād
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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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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.
Known For
Tony Awards
This Is Us
Grey's Anatomy
The Good Fight
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Station 19
Touched by an Angel
Little America
A Different World
Psych
Everybody Hates Chris
Curses!
Sofia the First
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
tick, tick... BOOM!
Soul
The Beekeeper
Our Son
Creed II
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Creed
Creed III
Cosby
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Steel Magnolias
The Cosby Show
Polly: Comin' Home!
A Fall from Grace
Black Box
Blossom
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