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).

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Do the Right Thing

Mother Sister

Film 1989

America

Mrs. Harper

Film 2009

Jazztime Tale

Narrator (voice)

Film 1991

The Jackie Robinson Story

Rae Robinson

Film 1950

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Film 2003

Politics of Love

Film 2011

Feast of All Saints

Elsie Claviere

Film 2001

Black Girl

Netta's mother

Film 1972

Video Girl

Valerie

Film 2011

Mr. and Mrs. Loving

Sophia

Film 1996

It's Good to Be Alive

Ruth Campanella

Film 1974

A Storm in Summer

Grandmother

Film 2000

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Self

Film 2013

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grandmother Baxter

Film 1979

Take a Giant Step

Christine

Film 1959

Tuesday Morning Ride

Jennie

Film 1995

Gone Are the Days!

Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins

Film 1963

After Goodbye

Narrator

Film 1993

Sports on the Silver Screen

Self (archive footage)

Film 1997

That Man of Mine

Joan

Film 1946

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Mary Tyrone

Film 1982

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

Narrator (voice)

Film 2009

Passing Glory

Mommit Porter

Film 1999

The Wall

Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")

Film 1998

Countdown at Kusini

Leah Matanzima

Film 1976

Whitewash

Grandmother (voice)

Film 1994

Taking Back Our Town

Emelda West

Film 2001

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner

Narrator

Film 1998

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany

Film 1999

Neighbours

Vicky Kingsbury

Film 1966

No Way Out

Connie Brooks (uncredited)

Film 1950

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Self (archive footage)

Film 1970

Love in Syncopation

Film 1946

The Fight Never Ends

Film 1948

What a Guy

Film 1948

Wedding Band

Julia Augustine

Film 1974

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

Self

Film 1989

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

Herself

Film 2007

All God's Children

Irene Whitfield

Film 1980

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Self

Film 2004

The Ernest Green Story

Lydia Wilson

Film 1993

Zora is My Name!

Zora Neale Hurston

Film 1990

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

(archive footage)

Film 2004

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'

Self

Film 2002

Color Adjustment

Narrator

Film 1992

Go Man Go

Irma Jackson

Film 1954

Discovering William Greaves

Self

Film 2006

Poitier's Walter Lee

Self (archive footage)

Film 2018

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters

Film 1972

The Sheriff

Sue Ann Lucas

Film 1971

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Self

Film 2014

On Merit

Narrator (voice)

Film 1972

The Unfinished Journey

Narrator (voice)

Film 1999

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

Self

Film 2007

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand

Self

Film 1999

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six

Film 1980

All About Us

Ms. Ella

Film 2007

Easy to Get

Drugstore Girl

Film 1947

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood

Self

Film 1998

The Stand

Mother Abagail

Film 1994

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Spenser: For Hire

Tv 1985

The Golden Girls

Mammy Watkins

Tv 1985

China Beach

Tv 1988

Little Bill

Tv 1999

The Stand

Mother Abagail

Tv 1994

Police Woman

Tv 1974

Iconoclasts

Self

Tv 2005

The Defenders

Catherine Collins

Tv 1961

The Kennedy Center Honors

Self

Tv 1978

Reading Rainbow

Herself - Narrator (voice)

Tv 1983

American Experience

Narrator (voice)

Tv 1988

Christianity: The First 1000 Years

Herself - Narrator

Tv 1998

The Dick Cavett Show

Self - Guest

Tv 1968

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years

Narrator

Tv 2002

Great Performances

Self

Tv 1971