Ruby Dee

Also known as Ruby Ann Wallace

American actress (1922–2014)

Person · Open Library

Works: 16

Top works

Maggie's American Dream
With Ossie and Ruby
Dessa Rose
Life Lit by Some Large Vision
Having our say

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1950-05-27

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 756
Total plays: 2,388

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,652x
The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,638x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transitions in Development and Disease
· 2009 · cited 8,268x
Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
· 2006 · cited 5,212x

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Quotes

“I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep”
“It occurred to me that being what they call 'colored,' being a Negro, was some kind of a disadvantage”
“I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along”
“I love the people I love. I didn't care whether they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist ... anything but a racist”
“I didn't care about being integrated or accepted”
“they were just tasting a little teeny bit of what was racism and fascism and the horror of what was happening in the country”

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Key facts

Born: Ruby Ann Wallace , ( 1922-10-27 ) October 27, 1922, Cleveland , Ohio , U.S.
Died: June 11, 2014 (2014-06-11) (aged 91), New Rochelle, New York , U.S.
Resting place: Ferncliff Cemetery
Alma mater: Hunter College (1945)
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1940–2013
Spouses: Frankie Dee Brown ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1941 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1945 ) Ossie Davis , ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ; died 2005 )
Children: 3, including Guy Davis

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Image: Ruby Dee - 1972.jpg

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Commons category: Ruby Dee
date of birth: 1922-10-27
date of death: 2014-06-11
start of work period: 1940-00-00
end of work period: 2014-00-00

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Article

Ruby Dee (born Ruby Ann Wallace; October 27, 1922 – June 11, 2014) was an American actress. She was married to Ossie Davis, with whom she frequently performed until his death in 2005. She received numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Obie Award, and a Drama Desk Award, as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. She was honored with the National Medal of Arts in 1995, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2000, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.

Dee started her career with the American Negro Theatre. She made her Broadway debut in South Pacific (1943). She met her future husband working together on the play Jeb (1946). She originated the Broadway roles of Ruth Younger in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and reprised the role in the 1961 film and Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins in the Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious (1961) and reprised the role in the 1963 film.