Jasmine Guy
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Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, director, singer and dancer.
Guy is known for her role as Dina in the 1988 film School Daze and as Whitley Gilbert-Wayne on the NBC The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, which originally ran from 1987 to 1993.
Guy won six consecutive NAACP Image Awards from 1990 through 1995 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the show.
She is also known as Kayla Samuels on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Roxy Harvey on Dead Like Me.
Early life
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Jamaican father and Caucasian mother, Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended Northside Performing Arts High School. Her mother, the former Jaye Rudolph, was a former high-school teacher, and her father, the Reverend William Vincent Guy, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Spelman College; he was also a college instructor in philosophy and religion. At the age of 17, she moved to New York City to study dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center.
Personal life
Guy had a close friendship with rapper Tupac Shakur. They had met during his guest appearance on the sitcom A Different World in 1993. Shakur recuperated at Guy's home after he was shot in 1994. Guy appeared in his music video "Temptations" and later wrote his mother's biography, Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary.
Guy married Terrence Duckett in August 1998, and the couple had one child, a daughter named Imani, born in 1999. On April 8, 2008, People reported that Guy and Duckett were divorcing after ten years of marriage due to irreconcilable differences. Guy and her daughter subsequently took up residence in Guy's childhood hometown of Atlanta.
Guy endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Acting career
In seven episodes of the 1982 television series Fame directed by choreographer Debbie Allen, Guy began her television career as a dancer.
In the television sitcom A Different World, Guy today is best known for her role as Whitley Gilbert. Bill Cosby, the show's creator and spin-off of The Cosby Show, aired on NBC from 1987 to 1993. Guy wrote three episodes and directed one, in addition to being in every episode: she started as a co-star but ended up replacing the show's original actress Lisa Bonet, who died in the series, but eventually ended up replacing her. Guy was nominated for and received six consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.
Kayla, one of Will Smith's girlfriends, appeared in a 1991 episode of A Different World as Kayla. Guy appeared on CBS' Stompin' at the Savoy in 1992 with Vanessa Williams, under new head coach Debbie Allen, and in 1993, she appeared as the mother of Halle Berry's character in the CBS TV mini-series Queen. This was based on Alex Haley's book Queen: The Story of an American Family, a companion volume to his earlier Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which had been turned into a television mini-series. Guy appeared on two episodes of Melrose Place as Peter Burns' love interest, Caitlin Mills, and in 1996, she appeared on Living Single as a psychologist treating main character Khadijah for anxiety. Kathleen, a deceased angel in the CBS Network drama Touched by an Angel from 1995 to 1997, she appeared in the recurring role of an Angel. Guy joined PBS' Math-based animated film Cyberchase in 2002, portraying Ava, the queen of the cybersite Symmetria, and making a cameo appearance on Moesha's spin-off The Parkers. Guy appeared in HBO's documentary, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative, a documentary that premiered during Black History Month in 2003. The slave stories were based on the WPA slave interviews conducted in the 1930s, which included over 2,000 former slaves.
In the film Dead Like Me, created by Bryan Fuller, Guy appeared alongside Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin. On Showtime, the show lasted 29 episodes over two seasons in 2003 and 2004. Guy played Roxy Harvey, a meter maid turned police officer and one of the main group of grim reapers around whom the series was based. Guy was nominated for the Outstanding Support Actress in a Drama Series in 2005 by the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress. She appeared in the feature-length series Life After Death, which was released on video in 2009 before being shown on the Syfy channel. Guy appeared in The People Speak, a documentary that used dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans based on historian Howard Zinn's book A People's History of the United States. The People Speak executive was executive produced and seen on The History Channel, giving a broad overview of civil rights issues in America. From 2009 to 2017, Guy appeared in the Lifetime comedy series Drop Dead Diva as a judge, and she appeared in the episode "Last Year's Model" on Lifetime. Guy played Sheila "Grams" Bennett, Bonnie's grandmother, who was later discovered to be a descendant of Salem Witches. Both shows were shot in the Atlanta area. She appeared in the Lifetime Christmas film Secret Santa in late 2017.
In Spike Lee's musical-drama film School Daze, Guy made her film debut in 1988. Dina played the role of Dina, a member of Gamma Ray's light-skinned, straight-haired African American women, a women's auxiliary to the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity. Before joining the cast of A Different World, Filming on School Daze was complete. Dominique La Rue starred Eddie Murphy (who also directed), Richard Pryor, and Redd Foxx during the following year. Sawyer appeared in the Warner Bros. animated film Cats Don't Dance in 1997. In 2011, she appeared in the film October Baby for the first time. Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Jenna Elfman, Anthony LaPaglia, Jane Krakowski, and Whoopi Goldberg appeared in the film Big Stone Gap in 2015. She appeared in the short film My Nephew Emmett, which received the Student Academy Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2018.
Guy appeared in an off-Broadway hit musical Beehive in 1987 before heading to France to perform in a similar musical review. He has appeared in many Broadway shows and national tours, including as Crow in The Wiz, Mickey in Leader of the Pack, Betty Rizzo in Grease, and as Velma Kelly in Chicago. Playbill reported on Guy's return to stage in the True Colors Theatre Company's production of Pearl Cleage's Blues for an Alabama Sky on April 6, 2009. Andrea Frye's show was the last minute addition to the company's season, and it opened in Atlanta on May 4 in Atlanta. The Blues followed Guy's spirited run in The True Colors' Miss Evers' Boys, which co-starred TC Carson of Living Single.
On the Alliance Stage of the Woodruff Arts Centre in Atlanta, Guy produced the world premiere of I Dream in July 2010. Guy was also a member of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre Company co-production of Pearl Cleage's The Nacirema Society requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One-Hundred Years. The festival in Montgomery, Alabama, ran from September 24 to October 3, before transferring to Atlanta's Alliance Theatre for performances October 20 to November 14. Guy produced George C. Wolfe's True Colors at The Colored Museum in early 2011, and Guy costarred with Kenny Leon in Sam Shepard's play Fool For Love at The Balzer Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. Guy was hired as the company's Producing Director in August 2010 and spent time off stage. True Colors said Guy's full-time position would be both administrative and artistic, as well as nationally. Guy continues to perform on stage and is still assisting the company.
Music career
Guy first recorded her self-titled debut album in 1990 during A Different World's run. The album reached its highest point at No. 67. "Mate Me" debuted at 143 on the US Top 200 Album Chart and spawned three hit singles: "Want Me" debuts at No. 143 on the US Top 200 Album Chart and produced three hit singles: "We're a Boy" (U.S. R&B No. 143). 14; "Another Like My Lover" (US No. 8) R&B No. 66 in the United States No. (Williams, 1990) and "Just Want to Hold You" (US No. 9). R&B No. 34 in the United States. The last single cracked the main US Top 40 singles chart on Sunday, with the last single debuting.