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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Sheryl Lee Ralph (1956 - ) Actress, singer Also: Dancer Born: December 30, 1956, Waterbury, CT Education: Rutgers University (BA); Negro Ensemble Company (acting) An attractive, stage-trained, African-American actress, singer, and dancer, Ralph got her professional start in the socially-minded Sidney Poitier/Bill Cosby comic action yarn A PIECE OF THE ACTION (1977). She then moved on to Broadway where she performed in the musical Reggae (1980) and in the long-running musical Dreamgirls (1981). As Deena Jones, a character loosely based on Diana Ross, Ralph received nominations for both the Tony and Drama Desk Award as Best Actress in a Musical. Ralph had made her TV debut on The Krofft Komedy Hour (1978). After her Broadway success, she returned to TV as co-star in several series. In the short-lived Code Name: Foxfire (NBC, 1985), Ralph was a reformed thief who worked as a government spy. She fared better as Ginger St. James, an outspoken and sexy waitress on It's a Living (1986-89). In New Attitude (ABC, 1990), she played a conservative, sensible beautician partnered with her more outrageous sister (Phyllis Yvonne Stickney). Ralph went on to join the cast of the popular sitcom Designing Women (CBS,1992) as Etienne Toussiant Bouvier, the Vegas show-girl wife of Anthony (Meshach Taylor). In 1996, she was the stepmother demanding respect on the popular sitcom Moesha (UPN). Ralph has appeared in several TV-movies, including THE NEIGHBORHOOD (NBC, 1982) and GAMBLER RETURNS: THE LUCK OF THE DRAW (NBC, 1991), and has been a frequent guest on variety and award specials. Ralph's feature credits include voice work for Disney's cartoon feature OLIVER & CO. (1988). She had her first leading role as Denzel Washington's singing wife in THE MIGHTY QUINN (1989). In Charles Burnett's TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990), she was married to Richard Brooks and trying to live a peaceful, middle-class life. Ralph was Robert De Niro's brash girlfriend in LA AMANTE DEL JEFE (1992), Eddie Murphy con-artist cousin in DE ESTAFADOR A SENADOR (1992) and a humorless mother of an aspiring singer in CAMBIO DE HABITO 2 (1993). An exuberant talk show guest, outspoken on equal access for women and minorities, Ralph has also recorded an album, In the Evening (1984), and produced and performed in a video called Sheryl Lee Ralph's Beauty Basics (1987).
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