Ruby Dee

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Ruby Dee-Theater credits include Boesman and Lena (Obie Award), Wedding Band for the NY Shakespeare Festival (Drama Desk Award), The Glass Menagerie at the Arena Stage, A Raisin in the Sun, Ossie Davis’ satire Purlie Victorious and her one-woman show, My One Good Nerve, which is based on her book of the same title. Film credits include Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing and Jungle Fever, Sidney Poitier’s Buck and the Preacher, Steven King’s The Stand and Just Cause. Films for television include Having Our Say for CBS, A Storm in Summer and Finding Buck McHenry for Showtime and Alex Haley’s Roots. Ms. Dee and her husband Ossie Davis produced with PBS Martin Luther King: The Dream and the DrumA Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers and for three seasons, the critically acclaimed series With Ossie and Ruby