Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford was born in Harlem, New York, United States on March 6th, 1948 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 76, Anna Maria Horsford biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Anna Maria Horsford (born March 6, 1948) is an American actress best known for her appearances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her appearances on NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros.
(1995-99)
She appeared on the FX crime drama The Shield played A.D.A. Vivienne Avant, Beth Encardi of CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, was nominated for the Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016. Horsford appeared in a number of films, most notable as Craig Jones' mother Betty in the 1995 comedy film Friday and its sequel after Next (2002).
Times Square (1980), The Fan (1981), Precipit (1990), It Was Off (1990), Along Came a Spider (2001), Our Family Wedding (2010), and A Madea Christmas (2013).
Early life
Horsford was born in Harlem in 1948 to Victor Horsford, an investment real estate broker born in the Dominican Republic, and Lillian Agatha (née Richardson) Horsford, who immigrated from Antigua and Barbuda in the 1940s. She grew up in a five-child family.
Horsford attended Wadleigh Junior High School and the High School of Performing Arts in Wadleigh. She became involved in acting through Harlem Youth for Change after high school.
She began working outside of high school with the Joe Papp's Public Theater, a part of Coriolanus at the Delacorte in Central Park.
According to a DNA report, she has maternal ancestry from Sierra Leone's Limba people.
Personal life
Horsford was given the title Ambassador of Tourism of Antigua on October 29, 2011. Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.'s founding member is also a member.
Career
Her first major role in television was as a producer for the PBS show Soul!, hosted by Ellis Haizlip, which aired between 1968 and 1973. One of her first TV appearances was in 1973 on the first run syndication game show of To Tell the Truth where she was an imposter for Laura Livingston, one of the first female military police. Horsford made guest appearances on such sitcoms as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Sparks, Moesha, The Bernie Mac Show, The Shield, Girlfriends, and Everybody Hates Chris. She had main roles on the sitcoms The Wayans Bros. as "Dee Baxter" and "Thelma Frye" on Amen. She appeared on the drama Judging Amy.
More recently, she was seen in the first season of Grey's Anatomy. She returned to the big screen in the 2013 film A Madea Christmas. She portrayed Helen on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines.
Horsford currently has a recurring role as Vivienne Avant on The Bold and the Beautiful. For the role, she was nominated for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in the 43rd Daytime Emmy Awards.
She began playing a recurring role on B Positive in the show's second-season premiere.
She also has appeared in the TBS sitcom The Last O.G. Featuring Tracy Morgan, as a recurring character (Tray's mother).