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Date of Birth: October 27, 1924
Name at birth: Ruby Ann Wallace
Ruby Dee has been a star of stage and screen since her 1946 Broadway debut in Anna Lucasta. She has since appeared hundreds of times in plays, movies and television shows, frequently co-starring with her husband, actor Ossie Davis. The pair, married since 1948, are also famous for their off-screen activism and work on behalf of African Americans in the performing arts. Dee's films include The Jackie Robinson Story(1950), A Raisin in the Sun (1961, with Sidney Poitier), Do the Right Thing (1988, directed by Spike Lee) and Baby Geniuses (1999).
Extra credit: In 2004 Dee and Davis were honored by the Kennedy Center for their contributions to the performing arts in America... In 1998 Dee published a collection of writings, My One Good Nerve... In 2000 she and Davis published their autobiography, With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together.
Ruby Dee, Boesman and Lena
Ruby Dee Quotes
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations.
Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity.
A still from the 1950 motion picture, The Jackie Robinson Story, showing (from l-r) Richard Lane (as Clay Hoppice), Ruby Dee (as Rachel Robinson), Jackie Robinson (as himself), and Billy Wayne (as Clyde Sukeforth). |
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