Teresa Graves
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Teresa Graves (January 10, 1948 – October 10, 2002) was an American actress and singer.
As the star of the 1974 Get Christie Love!, Graves is credited as being the first black woman to star in her own hour-long drama television series.
Personal life and death
Graves was married once and had no children. On June 25, 1977, Graves married William D. Reddick in Los Angeles, California. The marriage later ended in divorce by 1983. Graves was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness in 1974, and almost immediately began using her celebrity to bring international awareness to the persecution of Witnesses in Malawi under then-leader Hastings Kamuzu Banda's "one-party rule".
For the rest of her life, Graves resided at 3437 West 78th Place in the Hyde Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California where she cared for her mother. On October 10, 2002, Graves' home caught fire due to a space heater. Graves was found unconscious in a bedroom before being rushed to the hospital where she later died. She was 54 years old.
Career
Graves was born in 1948, the middle of three children in Houston, Texas, to Marshall (1921–1967) and Willie Graves (1920–2005). Graves began performing in high school in 1966 and spent the first few years as a singer with The Doodletown Pipers. In 1970, she released a self-titled album.
She soon returned to acting, appearing on both variety shows Our Place (1967) and the legendary single episode of Turn-On (1969). Graves toured Southeast Asia in 1969 with Bob Hope's USO tour. Graves returned to acting roles after being a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In during its third season. Graves appeared in several films. Graves' character is shot to death in the 1973 film That Man Bolt, in which she played Samantha Nightingale, when she is in bed during a love scene with Fred Williamson, who plays Jefferson Bolt.
Graves played a vital role in the ABC crime drama television film in 1974 and the subsequent series Get Christie Love! Lieutenants Reardon and Ryan, respectively, Love's bosses, were featured on Charles Cioffi and Jack Kelly. Graves' was deemed as the second African-American woman to appear in her own hour-long television series at the time of its series's debut, six years ago. Graves was described as "television's most entertaining detective," according to an article in the November 1974 issue of Jet magazine, "the epitome of a tough lady cop with more feminine features than Venus." Graves left show business to devote her time to her faith in 1983.