Rosanna Carter was an American television, stage and film actress, of Bahamian extraction, and the sister of Esther Rolle and Estelle Evans. The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent sovereign English -speaking country consisting of two thousand Cays and Esther Rolle ( November 8, 1920 &ndash November 17, 1998) was an American actress of stage and television Estelle Evans ( October 1, 1906 – July 20, 1985) was a Bahamian actress [1] She was born in Florida. Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the During the Harlem Renaissance, she acted at New Lafayette Theater as one of the Lafayette Players [2]. The Harlem Renaissance was named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke in 1925 The Lafayette Theatre, also known as "the House Beautiful" was an entertainment venue located at 132nd Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem New York She acted in The Brother from Another Planet, a well-reviewed 1984 film described as a science fiction fairy tale with a slavery plot. The Brother from Another Planet ( 1984) is a film written directed and edited by John Sayles. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another
Awards
Carter received an AUDELCO award in 1977 for her work as a supporting actress in the play, Unfinished Women [3]. AUDELCO, the Audience Development Committee Inc, was established in 1973 by the late Vivian Robinson to honor excellence in New York African American She was nominated for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in I'll Fly Away in 1993, [4] losing to Elaine Stritch who performed in Law & Order [5]. This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Guest Supporting Actress. " I'll Fly Away," written by Albert E Brumley in 1929, is a Hymn most associated with American Baptists[http //homepage Elaine Stritch (born February 2 1926) Law & Order is an American Police procedural and Legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf.
References
- ^ IMDB Biography for Esther Rolle
- ^ A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, Annemarie Bean, 1999
- ^ Public Theater Awards 1956-2006
- ^ IMDB Awards for Rosanna Carter
- ^ IMDB Emmy Awards: 1993
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