Ruby Dee
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Actor
America [Movie]
as Mrs. Harper
2009
Up Tight! [Movie]
as Laurie
2008
That Man of Mine [Movie]
2008
Steam [Movie]
as Doris
2008
Naming Number Two [Movie]
as Nanna Maria
2007
American Gangster [Movie]
as Mama Lucas
2007
All About Us [Movie]
as Ms. Ella
2007
Dream Street [Movie]
2006
The Tall Target [Movie]
as Rachel
2006
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God [Movie]
as Nanny
2005
The Way Back Home [Movie]
as Maude Perry
2005
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks [Movie]
2003
2002
Jungle Fever [Movie]
as Lucinda Purify
2002
Counting On Democracy [Movie]
as Narrator
2002
The Feast of All Saints [Movie]
as Elsie Claviere
2001
Taking Back Our Town [Movie]
2001
Harlem [Movie]
as Narrator
2000
Finding Buck McHenry [Movie]
as Mrs. McHenry
2000
Edge of the City [Movie]
as Lucy Tyler
2000
A Storm in Summer [Movie]
as Grandmother
2000
Ready for Life [Movie]
as Narrator
2000
Touched By an Angel: The Christmas Gift [TV Series]
as LaBelle
1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First One Hundred Years [Movie]
as Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany
1999
Passing Glory [Movie]
as Mommit Porter
1999
Baby Geniuses [Movie]
as Margo
1999
Christianity: The First Thousand Years [TV Documentary Series] [TV Series]
as Narrator
1998
Christianity: The First Thousand Years, Vol. 4 - The Faith Conquers [Movie]
as Narrator
1998
Christianity: The First Thousand Years, Vol. 3 - The Glory of Byzantium [Movie]
as Narrator
1998
Christianity: The First Thousand Years, Vol. 2 - Church and Empire [Movie]
as Narrator
1998
Christianity: The First Thousand Years, Vol. 1 - The Founding of a Faith [Movie]
as Narrator
1998
The Wall [Movie]
1998
A Simple Wish [Movie]
as Hortense
1997
Captive Heart: the James Mink Story [Movie]
as Indigo
1996
Whitewash [Movie]
1995
Tuesday Morning Ride [Movie]
1995
Just Cause [Movie]
as Evangeline
1995
The Stand [Movie]
as Mother Abigail Freemantle
1994
Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Three [Movie]
as Performer
1993
Poetry Hall of Fame, Vol. Four [Movie]
as Performer
1993
The Ernest Green Story [Movie]
1993
After Goodbye: An AIDS Story [Movie]
as Narrator
1993
Cop And A Half [Movie]
as Rachel
1993
Reading Rainbow: Tar Beach [TV Series]
as Narrator
1992
Black Girl [Movie]
as Netta's Mother
1992
Jazztime Tale [Movie]
as Narrator
1992
Color Adjustment [Movie]
as Narration
1992
Hands upon the Heart [Movie]
1991
Cat People [Movie]
as Female
1991
Zora is My Name! [Movie]
1990
Whispers on the Wind [Movie]
1990
1990
Decoration Day [Movie]
as Rowena
1990
Making 'Do the Right Thing' [Movie]
1989
Do The Right Thing [Movie]
as Mother Sister
1989
Love at Large [Movie]
as Corrine Dart
1989
Windmills of the Gods [Movie]
1988
Gore Vidal's Lincoln [Movie]
1988
The Atlanta Child Murders [Movie]
as Faye Williams
1985
Reading Rainbow: Simon's Book [TV Series]
1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain [Movie]
1984
To Be Young, Gifted & Black [Movie]
1981
1980
All God's Children [Movie]
as Irene Whitfield
1980
Roots: The Next Generations [Movie]
as Queen Haley
1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings [Movie]
as Grandmother Baxter
1979
Drama: Play, Performance, Perception [Video Series] [TV Series]
1978
Countdown at Kusini [Movie]
as Leah Matanzima
1976
It's Good to Be Alive [Movie]
1974
Buck and the Preacher [Movie]
as Ruth
1972
The Sheriff [Movie]
1970
Deadlock [Movie]
as Lucinda
1969
The Incident [Movie]
as Joan Robinson
1967
The Fugitive: Decision in the Ring [TV Series]
as Laura Smith
1963
Purlie Victorious [Movie]
as Lutiebelle
1963
The Balcony [Movie]
as Thief
1963
A Raisin in the Sun [Movie]
as Ruth Younger
1961
Take a Giant Step [Movie]
as Christine, the Maid
1959
Virgin Island [Movie]
as Ruth
1958
St. Louis Blues [Movie]
as Elizabeth
1958
The Great American Pastime [Movie]
1956
Go, Man, Go! [Movie]
as Ima Jackson
1954
The Jackie Robinson Story [Movie]
as Rae Robinson
1950
No Way Out [Movie]
as Connie Brooks
1950
The Fight Never Ends [Movie]
1947
Meet Mary Pleasant [Movie]
as Narrator
Producer
M&M Smith: For Posterity's Sake [Movie]
1995
Writer
Up Tight! [Movie]
2008
Other
Zora is My Name! [Movie]
1990
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