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Ruby Dee

Highest Rated:: 100% A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Lowest Rated:: 0% The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll (2011)

Birthday:: Oct 27, 1924
Birthplace:: Not Available
Bio:: African-American stage, film, and TV luminary Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland, the daughter of a Pullman-porter father and schoolteacher mother. While growing up in Harlem, Dee developed an interest in the theater. In 1941, she began studying under Morris Carnovsky at the American Negro Theatre.…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%

Number of Movies: 66

Box Office Since 2001: $130.2M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011		Video Girl	Actor	--
2011	94%	Sing Your Song	Ruby Dee	$27.9k
2011	0%	The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll	Miss Candy the bartender	--
2011		Politics Of Love	Actor	--
2010		For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots	Actor	--
2009	14%	Steam	Doris	--
2009		Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement	Actor	--
2009		America	Mrs. Harper	--
2009		Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School	Actor	--
2009		Red & Blue Marbles	Actor	--
2008	50%	No. 2 (Naming Number Two)	Actor	--
2007		In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema	Actor	--
2007		All About Us	Ms. Ella	--
2007	79%	American Gangster	Mama Lucas	$130.1M
2006		The Way Back Home	Maude Perry	--
2003		The Life of Jackie Robinson	Actor	--
2003		Poetry Corner	Actor	--
2002		Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2002		Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2001		Taking Back Our Town	Actor	--
2001		The Feast of All Saints	Elsie Claviere	--
2000		Finding Buck McHenry	Mrs. McHenry	--
2000		A Storm in Summer	Grandmother	--
1999		Passing Glory	Mommit Porter	--
1999	2%	Baby Geniuses	Margo	--
1999		Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years	Annie Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany	--
1998		The Wall	Actor	--
1998		Mississippi, America	Actor	--
1997	27%	A Simple Wish	Hortense	--
1995		Whitewash	Actor	--
1995	22%	Just Cause	Evangeline	--
1993		Story Porch With Ruby Dee	Actor	--
1993		The Ernest Green Story	Actor	--
1993	17%	Cop and a Half	Rachel	--
1991		Color Adjustment	Actor	--
1991	85%	Jungle Fever	Lucinda Purify	--
1991		Hands Upon the Heart	Actor	--
1990		Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday	Actor	--
1990		Decoration Day	Rowena	--
1990		The Court Martial Of Jackie Robinson	Actor	--
1989	71%	Love at Large	Corrine Dart	--
1989		Zora is My Name!	Actor	--
1989	96%	Do the Right Thing	Mother Sister	--
1988		Gore Vidal's Lincoln	Actor	--
1988		Windmills of the Gods	Actor	--
1984		Go Tell It on the Mountain	Actor	--
1982	62%	Cat People	Female	--
1981		To Be Young, Gifted and Black	Actor	--
1980		All God's Children	Irene Whitfield	--
1979		I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings	Grandmother Baxter	--
1974		It's Good to Be Alive	Actor	--
1972		Black Girl	Netta's Mother	--
1972		Buck and the Preacher	Ruth	--
1968		Up Tight!	Actor	--
1967	83%	The Incident	Actor	--
1963	60%	The Balcony	Thief	--
1963		Purlie Victorious	Lutiebelle	--
1961	100%	A Raisin in the Sun	Ruth Younger	--
1959		Take a Giant Step	Christine the Maid	--
1958		Virgin Island	Ruth	--
1958		St. Louis Blues	Elizabeth	--
1957		Edge of the City	Lucy Tyler	--
1954		Go, Man, Go!	Ima Jackson	--
1951		The Tall Target	Rachel	--
1950		No Way Out	Connie Brooks	--
1950	75%	The Jackie Robinson Story	Rae Robinson	--