Vonetta McGee
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Vonetta Lawrence McGee (January 14, 1945 – July 9, 2010) was an American actress.
She is best known for her appearances in the 1970s, which included blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000, and 1974's Thomasine & Bushrod together with her then-boyfriend Max Julien.
Mimi Shaw appeared as Mimi Shaw in its first season (1987–88). She appeared on the 1987 Universal Television situation comedy Bustin' Loose.
Early life
Lawrence McGee and Alma McGee, both of San Francisco, California, graduated from San Francisco Polytechnic High School in 1962. She attended San Francisco State University and became involved in student organizations.
Personal life and death
McGee lived in a live-in relationship with actor Max Julien from 1974 to 1977. They appeared together in Thomasine & Bushrod, a 1974 film.
McGee married actor Carl Lumbly, with whom she had one child, Brandon, in 1988. McGee died of heart arrest at the age of 65 on July 9, 2010.
Career
McGee landed her first role in 1968, when she performed alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Klaus Kinski in Sergio Corbucci's Spaghetti Western The Great Silence, and made her first released film appearance that same year as the eponymous character in the Italian comedy Faustina, which was released before the former film. She later became well known for her parts in the 1972 Blaxploitation films Melinda and Hammer. In the action thriller Shaft in Africa (1973), McGee took the role of Aleme, the daughter of an emir, who teaches John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) Ethiopian geography. Earlier that year she had appeared in a supporting role as an occult priestess in The Norliss Tapes. In 1974, McGee appeared as Thomasine, alongside Max Julien as Bushrod, in the western action film Thomasine & Bushrod, which was intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. The next year, she starred alongside Clint Eastwood in the action thriller The Eiger Sanction (1975). She appeared in an episode of the TV series Starsky & Hutch named "Black and Blue" in 1979. She appeared as Marlene, the high-energy lot manager, in the 1984 cult classic Repo Man.