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 Mary Alice | ||||
| Personal Information | ||||
| Birth name: | Mary Alice Smith | |||
| Born: | December 3, 1936 | |||
| Birthplace: | Indianola, Mississippi, U.S. | |||
| Career/Family Information | ||||
| Occupation/ Career: |
Actress | |||
| Years active: | 1970–present | |||
| Character information | ||||
| Appeared on: | Good Times | |||
| Character played: | Loretta in "The Baby" (Season 3) | |||
Mary Alice (born Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1936) appears on Good Times as Loretta, a friend and neighbor of Florida and Willona who goes into labor ant then has her child in the Evans' apartment in the Season 3 episode titled "The Baby".
Life and career[]
Born and raised in Indianola, MS, Mary had a yen to act and began her career on stage in her hometown.[1]
Alice has appeared in over 50 television shows and feature films during her career. She made her screen debut in 1974 film The Education of Sonny Carson, and later guest-starred in Police Woman and Sanford and Son. She played Ellie Grant Hubbard on soap opera All My Children in the early 1980s, and co-starred in A Different World as Leticia 'Lettie' Bostic from 1988 to 1989.
In 1987 she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her work in Fences. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993 for I'll Fly Away (1991–1993). Her other film credits include Malcolm X (1992), The Inkwell (1994) and Down in the Delta with Alfre Woodard.
In 2000, Alice was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[2]
Mary resides in Los Angeles.
References[]
External links[]
- Mary Alice article at Wikipedia
- Mary Alice at the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
