Phylicia Rashad

TV Actress

Phylicia Rashad was born in Houston, Texas, United States on June 19th, 1948 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 75, Phylicia Rashad 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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Other Names / Nick Names
Phylicia Ayers-Allen
Date of Birth
June 19, 1948
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Houston, Texas, United States
Age
75 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Networth
$25 Million
Profession
Film Actor, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Phylicia Rashad Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 75 years old, Phylicia Rashad has this physical status:

Height
168cm
Weight
66kg
Hair Color
Black
Eye Color
Black
Build
Average
Measurements
Not Available
Phylicia Rashad Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Howard University, Carnegie Mellon University
Phylicia Rashad Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
William Lancelot Bowles Jr. ​ ​(m. 1972; div. 1975)​, Victor Willis ​ ​(m. 1978; div. 1982)​, Ahmad Rashad ​ ​(m. 1985; div. 2001)​
Children
2, including Condola Rashad
Dating / Affair
William Lancelot Bowles Jr. (1972⁠-1975)​, Victor Willis (1976⁠-1982)​, Ahmad Rashād (1983-⁠2001)
Parents
Andrew Arthur Allen, Vivian Ayers
Siblings
Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen, Jr.) (Brother) (Jazz-Musician), Debbie Allen (Younger Sister) (Actor, Choreographer, Dancer, Singer, Songwriter, Television Director, Television Producer, Former member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities), Hugh Allen (Brother) (Real estate banker in North Carolina)
Other Family
Lloyd James Allen (Paternal Grandfather), Goldie Matilda Jackson (Paternal Grandmother), Robert D. Ayers, Sr. (Maternal Grandfather), Vivian Graham (Maternal Grandmother), Norm Nixon (Brother-In-Law) (Former Professional Basketball Player), Vivian Nichole Nixon (Niece) (Dancer, Actor), Norman Ellard Nixon Jr. (Nephew) (Basketball Player), DeVaughn Nixon (Nephew) (Actor)
Phylicia Rashad Life

Phylicia Rashad ( fih-LI-sh?

SHAHD (née Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer, and stage producer.

She is best known for her appearance on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–92), which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986.

At the 2010 NAACP Image Awards, she was dubbed "the Mother" of the black community. Rashad was the first black actor to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2004, which she received for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun.

Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008) are among her Broadway credits.

When she reprised her A Raisin in the Sun role in the 2008 television version, she received a NAACP Image Award.

She has appeared in the films For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), and Creed II (2018).

Early life

Phylicia Ayers-Allen was born in Houston, Texas, on June 19, 1948. Vivian Ayers, her mother, is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, writer, playwright, researcher, and publisher. Andrew Arthur Allen, her father, was an orthodontist. Tex Allen Jr., a jazz-musician; sister Debbie Allen, an actress, choreographer, and producer; and brother Hugh Allen, who is now a real estate banker in Charlotte, North Carolina. When Phylicia was six years old, their parents divorced.

Her mother returned to Mexico with the two sisters in order to prevent United States segregation from occurring.

Ayers-Allen attended Howard University in 1980, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. While there, she was welcomed into Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Personal life

In 1972, Rashad's first marriage, which was to dentist William Lancelot Bowles, Jr., was a success. William Lancelot Bowles III, the following year, was their one son. In 1975, the marriage was ended. Rashad married Victor Willis (original lead singer of the Village People in 1978), who had met during the tenure of The Wiz. In 1982, the couple divorced.

On December 14, 1985, she married Ahmad Rashad for the third time. He was a former NFL wide receiver and sportscaster. Both of them were married for the third time, and she took their last name. During a pregame show for a nationally broadcast Thanksgiving Day football game between the New York Jets and the Detroit Lions on November 28, 1985, he proposed to her. Condola Phylea Rashd's mother was born in New York on December 11, 1986. The couple divorced in early 2001, and she has kept the surname Rashad to her name.

After she was released from prison on a technical basis, Rashad received widespread backlash after posting the following tweet in favor of convicted rapist Bill Cosby. A serious mistake is being corrected by a miscarriage of justice. This service was branded as rape apologies.

Rashad is a vegetarian.

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Phylicia Rashad Career

Career

Ayers-Allen first rose to prominence in Broadway with a line of Broadway credits, including Deena Jones in Dreamgirls (she later appeared in Dreamgirls as Sheryl Lee Ralph's understudy until she was fired in 1982 as Ralph's full replacement). She was a Munchkin in The Wiz for three and a half years. Josephine Baker's life story was told on album Josephine Superstar, a disco concept album that told the life tale of the artist in 1978. The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Victor Willis, Rashad's second husband and the Village People's original lead singer and lyricist. Willis appeared in The Wiz when she and him were both cast.

Other Broadway credits include August: On a Hot Tin Roof, Gem of the Ocean, and Raisin in the Sun (2004 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play/Drama Desk Award); Blue, Jelly's Last Jam, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death. Two of Lincoln Center's performances include Cymbeline and Bernarda Alba; Helen, The Story and Everybody's Ruby; and the Sign, Sons and Fathers of Sons; and The Sirens at the Lincoln Center. For an Alabama Sky at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, she appeared in regional theatre as Euripides' Medea and in Blues. The Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and the Huntington Theatre in Boston are two other regional theatres at which she has appeared.

Rashad was the first black actor of any nationality to win the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award in 2004 for her role as Lena Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's revival of the play A Raisin in the Sun. Rashad received the Best Actress in a Play for A Raisin in the Sun in 2004, tying for the role Intimate Apparel for the fourth year. Rashad was nominated for a Tony for his role in Gem of the Ocean the previous year.

Rashad made her directorial debut with the Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean in 2007.

Rashad appeared on Broadway in 2008 as Big Mama in an all African-American production of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by her sister Debbie Allen. She appeared on stage with James Earl Jones (Big Daddy) and Anika Noni Rose (Maggie), as well as film actor Terrence Howard, who made his Broadway debut as Brick. Violet Weston, the drug-addicted matriarch of Tracy Letts' award-winning play August: Osage County, appeared at the Music Box Theatre in 2009.

Rashad returned to directing August Wilson's production in early 2014, when she pioneered Wilson's Fences' revival in Princeton, New Jersey. It has generally favorable reviews. Wilson's work, which included a well-received version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which she directed at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in late 2016, stayed on focus.

Rashad was the lead role in Tarell McCraney's play Head of Passes at The Public Theater from March 17 to May 1, 2016. Her results had been highly praised.

In 1983, Rashad joined the cast of ABC soap opera One Life to Live to play publicist Courtney Wright. The Cosby Show is her best known for the role of attorney Clair Huxtable on NBC's The Cosby Show. Bill Cosby starred as Obetrician Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable on the show, which ran from 1984 to 1992, and centered on their five children. Rashad co-hosted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with Pat Sajak and Bert Convy in 1985.

As Cosby's Cosby returned to television comedy in 1996 with CBS' Cosby, he called on Rashad to play Ruth Lucas, his character's wife. Telma Hopkins had been filming the pilot episode, but Cosby fired the executive producer and replaced Hopkins with Rashad Hopkins. The sitcom went from 1996 to 2000. That year, Cosby asked Rashad to appear in his animated television series Little Bill, in which the actor played Bill's mother, Brenda, until the show's end in 2004. Dr. Helen Marsh, the Dino Institute's head, also participated in the pre-show of the Dinosaur ride at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park.

On December 9, 2007, Rashad appeared on "Kill Moves" as a wealthy mother. In the Psych episode "Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy" in 2007, Winnie Guster appeared as Winnie Guster. In the episode "Christmas Joy," she reprised her role in 2008.

In the television film version of A Raisin in the Sun directed by Kenny Leon in February 2008, Rashad portrayed Lena Younger. It starred core members of Lorraine Hansberry's 1989 Broadway revival, including Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger and Walter Lee Younger. The television film adaptation debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008. The program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the Nielsen Media Research poll for the week ending March 2, 2008.

Rashad appeared as Gilda in the Tyler Perry film For Colored Girls, based on the story "Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.

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Good Deeds, Tyler Perry's second film, starred her in 2012. Also in 2012, Rashad played Clairee Belcher in the reimagining of Steel Magnolias (the role originated by Olympia Dukakis). This version features an all African American A-list cast, including Queen Latifah, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashd as Annelle, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser.

In the third season of Fox's Lee Daniels-produced Empire television series in 2016, Rashad was cast as a recurring guest actor.

When We Rise, Rashad portrayed Bishop Yvette A. Flunder, pastor of The City of Refuge Church in San Francisco, Calif., as part of the Dustin Lance Black mini-series When We Rise. The appearance of the artiste in the show displayed the ostensible compassion of the church, the ostensible dedication of its leadership, and the loving home the church provides to minister in San Francisco's difficult, predominantly African-American community.

In Pixar's Soul, Rashad played Libba Gardner, the mother of Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx).

Rashad was dean of Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts in May 2021. Her remarks in June 2021 supporting the release of former co-star Bill Cosby from jail were sluggish. Some called on Howard University to revoke her appointment, while Howard University said that "Personal positions of University leadership do not correspond to Howard University's policies." In an email to Howard University students and their parents, Rashad later apologized.

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Phylicia Rashad Awards

Awards and honors

  • 2003: Honored as Woman of the Year by the Harvard Black Men's Forum
  • 2005: received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) degree from Brown University
  • 2011: received an honorary doctorate degree from Spelman College for her work in the Arts
  • 2011: named the first Denzel Washington Chair professor in Theatre at Fordham University, supported by a $2 million gift from the actor
  • 2019: received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from The University of South Carolina for her work in the Arts and Arts Education

In a French cinema, the fight during Creed III screening goes VIRAL

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 7, 2023
A video showing the moment members of a French cinema audience protesting during a Creed III screening has gone viral. Michael B Jordan makes his third appearance in the Rocky film as Adonis Creed. As the credits rolled, two film enthusiasts decided to unleash their violence against one another following the film's final fight.

Greed III by Michael B. Jordan in the franchise's best opening and best opening for a sports film

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 5, 2023
According to studio estimates released on Sunday, Creed III set records for both the franchise and sports film genre in its first weekend, earning $58.7 million in box office revenues. Michael B. Jordan's much-anticipated motion picture appeared and directed in 4,007 North American locations, far beyond the film franchise's opening weekends in 2015 ($29 million) and 2018 ($35 million). The MGM film pits Jordan's eponymous character against his childhood friend Damian Anderson (Jonathan Majors), as well as a cast including Tessa Thompson, Wood Harris, Phylicia Rashad, and Mila Davis-Kent.

Creed III rakes in a record $5.45 million from Wednesday and Thursday previews

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 3, 2023
From Wednesday and Thursday previews, Creed III earned $5.45 million. According to Deadline, almost three-fourths of the preview ticket sales for the Michael B. Jordan-starring film emerged from Thursday evening screenings, and it is forecast to gross about $40 million in the first weekend. In terms of total gross from preview showings, the third film in the Creed trilogy, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this week, beats out its predecessors.
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