Mary Alice
Highest Rated: 88% To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Lowest Rated: 10% Sparkle (1976)
Birthday: Dec 3, 1941
Birthplace: Indianola, Mississippi, USA
A stage and TV actress with some feature credits, Mary Alice is known for playing women of quiet dignity and strength and for her eyes which speak a thousand words. TV viewers have known her as Fred Sanford's nemesis sister-in-law on episodes of "Sanford and Son" (NBC, 1975), and as the housemother with a past on "A Different World" (NBC, 1988-89). But anyone who has seen her playing wife of James Earl Jones and mother to Courtney Vance in her Tony-winning role in "Fences" (1987; also on tour) or as the sassy sister in "Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years" (1995) on Broadway knows that Alice is a resource never properly cultivated by Hollywood.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35% | 60% | The Matrix Revolutions | The Oracle (Character) | $139.3M | 2003 |
| 80% | 57% | Sunshine State | Eunice Stokes (Character) | $3.1M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Last Brickmaker in America | Dorothy Cobb (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | The Wishing Tree | Mattie (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Photographer | Violet (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 47% | 65% | Catfish in Black Bean Sauce | Dolores Williams (Character) | $1.3M | 1999 |
| 79% | 71% | Down in the Delta | Rosa Lynn Sinclair (Character) | $5.7M | 1998 |
| 19% | 67% | Bed of Roses | Alice (Character) | $19.0M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heading Home | Unknown (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Vernon Johns Story | Altona (Character) | - | 1994 |
| 22% | 83% | The Inkwell | Evelyn (Character) | $8.9M | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laurel Avenue | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 88% | 79% | To Sleep With Anger | Suzie (Character) | $1.2M | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | The Women of Brewster Place | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlotte Forten's Mission | Blind Lily (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 59% | 45% | Teachers | Linda Ganz (Character) | - | 1984 |
| 57% | 83% | Beat Street | Cora (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | This Man Stands Alone | Minnie Hayward (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lawman Without a Gun | Minnie Hayward (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 10% | 90% | Sparkle | Effie (Character) | - | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just an Old Sweet Song | Helen Mayfield (Character) | - | 1976 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jury | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Line of Fire | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 92% | 98% | Oz | Eugenia Hill (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Soul Food | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosby | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laurel Avenue | Unknown (Character) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Law & Order | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Women of Brewster Place | Unknown (Character) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988-1989 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Good Times | Loretta Simpson (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanford & Son | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Marnie (Guest Star) | 1975 |