Ruby Dee
Born: 1922-10-27
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun. Her other notable film roles include The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Do the Right Thing (1989) and American Gangster (2007).
Known For
American Gangster
2007★ 7.6
Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996★ 3.8
Long Day's Journey Into Night
1982★ 6.0
The Incident
1967★ 7.4
The Balcony
1963★ 5.0
Do the Right Thing
1989★ 7.8
Uptight
1968★ 6.6
Video Girl
2011★ 6.2
A Thousand Words
2012★ 6.1
Cat People
1982★ 6.0
Tuesday Morning Ride
1995★ 6.3
Wedding Band
1974★ 0.0
No. 2
2006★ 6.0
The Wall
1998★ 5.7
Passing Glory
1999★ 5.8
Baby Geniuses
1999★ 4.1
Decoration Day
1990★ 6.9
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
2011★ 5.5
Steam
2007★ 2.8
Jungle Fever
1991★ 6.4
Deadlock
1969★ 0.0
Just Cause
1995★ 6.3
A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
2009★ 7.3
The Way Back Home
2006★ 6.5
A Simple Wish
1997★ 5.5
Gone Are the Days!
1963★ 6.7
Edge of the City
1957★ 7.1
America
2009★ 3.5
Cop & ½
1993★ 4.5
A Raisin in the Sun
1961★ 7.7
Buck and the Preacher
1972★ 6.3
Color Adjustment
1992★ 6.9
Whitewash
1994★ 6.0
Politics of Love
2011★ 3.3
St. Louis Blues
1958★ 7.6
Love at Large
1990★ 4.8
The Jackie Robinson Story
1950★ 6.3
Taking Back Our Town
2001★ 1.0
All About Us
2007★ 4.4
The Fight Never Ends
1948★ 0.0
The Tall Target
1951★ 6.8
Feast of All Saints
2001★ 4.4
After Goodbye
1993★ 0.0
No Way Out
1950★ 6.9
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005★ 5.4
Black Girl
1972★ 6.4
Poitier's Walter Lee
2018★ 0.0
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984★ 6.4
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003★ 4.8
Betty and Coretta
2013★ 7.2
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004★ 4.0
The Unfinished Journey
1999★ 6.0
Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
2002★ 0.0
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970★ 7.1
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
1972★ 5.0
Finding Buck McHenry
2000★ 0.0
All God's Children
1980★ 4.0
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013★ 10.0
The Sheriff
1971★ 5.3
Virgin Island
1959★ 5.0
Jazztime Tale
1991★ 0.0
The Ernest Green Story
1993★ 6.9
It's Good to Be Alive
1974★ 6.6
Mr. and Mrs. Loving
1996★ 5.6
Sports on the Silver Screen
1997★ 10.0
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999★ 7.5
Countdown at Kusini
1976★ 0.0
What a Guy
1948★ 0.0
A Storm in Summer
2000★ 5.8
Take a Giant Step
1959★ 4.9
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979★ 4.0
That Man of Mine
1946★ 0.0
Go Man Go
1954★ 5.7
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014★ 1.5
Easy to Get
1947★ 0.0
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990★ 7.0
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
1999★ 0.0
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
2004★ 0.0
Zora is My Name!
1990★ 0.0
Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
1998★ 0.0
Discovering William Greaves
2006★ 7.0
Love in Syncopation
1946★ 0.0
In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
2007★ 6.5
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980★ 0.0