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Known for:	One Life to Live, Driving Miss Daisy, Rosewood
Birthday:	8 November 1920, Pompano Beach, Florida, USA

Originated the role of 'Dorcas Moulineaux' in Steve Carter's play, 'Dame Lorraine, " at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago on 27 March 1981. Sister of Rosanna Carter. Sister of Estelle Evans. Graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1942. Left the series Good Times after the 1976-1977 season due to her displeasure with the what she saw as the character of J.J. being a bad role model for young blacks. She returned at the beginning of the 1978-1979 season after the producers guaranteed that they would make J.J. a more respectable character. Is a honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated Buried at Westview Cemetery, Broward County, Pompano Beach, Florida. Last film was "Train Ride", an independent feature-film written and directed by Rel Dowdell, which was shot on location at the oldest African-American college in the U.S. at Cheyney University, Cheyney, Pennsylvania. She was also in Dowdell's multi-award winning short film version of "Train Ride", done while he was a graduate student at Boston University. She was appearing in "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Huntingdon Theatre in Boston at the time.

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