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Known for:	Guiding Light, Another World, Family Matters
Birth name:	Rosetta Olive Burton
Birthday:	8 August 1911, New York City, New York, USA
Height:	5' 2" (1.57 m)

Was a Broadway producer. She took care of James Earl Jones when he was an infant, while she was a member of his father's acting troupe. Her father was one of the first licensed plumbers in New York State. Was directed by Orson Welles in a landmark, all-black version of "Macbeth" in the 1930s. Suffered from rickets as a child and had to wear leg braces for 13 years. Her mother died of pneumonia at age 27 after giving birth to her brother in a Harlem hospital corridor because segregated policies barred her from using a room. Husband Egbert Brown, who owned a fleet of cabs, died in 1974. suffered from diabetes for many years. She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1999 for her services to the arts.

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