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Theresa Merritt Hines (September 24, 1922 – June 12, 1998), known professionally as Theresa Merritt, was an American actress. She is known for her role in That's My Mama (1974–1975) and for her film roles in The Wiz (1978) and Billy Madison (1995).
Theresa Merritt as Eloise "Mama" Curtis; Ted Lange as Junior; Theodore Wilson as Earl Chambers (season 1, episode 3 - season 2, episode 13, main) Jester Hairston as Wildcat (season 1, main) Lynne Moody as Tracy Curtis Taylor (season 1, main) DeForest Covan as Josh (season 1, main) Lisle Wilson as Leonard Taylor (season 2, main; recurring season 1)
He starred as barber Clifton Curtis in the mid-1970s television show That's My Mama with Theresa Merritt, Theodore Wilson, and Ted Lange. [ 14 ] Davis co-starred with singer and Broadway performer Melba Moore on her musical variety television show.
Theresa Merritt: Honorary: Actress of stage, screen and television; starred in the family sitcom That's My Mama and in The Wiz: Novella Nelson: Rho: Singer and actress; plays Roland's mother on Army Wives; created the role of "Aunt Missy" in the original Broadway production of Purlie; films include Antwone Fisher and Birth [85] [88] Keshia ...
Emmalyn Paulette Moody [citation needed] (born February 17, 1945), [note 1] known professionally as Lynne Moody, is an American film and television actress.Beginning her career in the early 1970s, Moody is best known her roles as Tracy Curtis–Taylor in the ABC television sitcom That's My Mama (1974–1975), Irene Harvey in Roots (1977), Roots: The Next Generations (1979), [6] and Patricia ...
Lois Nettleton was born on August 16, 1927, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Virginia and Edward L. Nettleton. She was also raised by her maternal aunt's family.
At that time, the best-known actor in the cast was Theresa Merritt, who played Ma. Direction was by Lloyd Richards, one of August Wilson's most frequent collaborators. Richards and Wilson worked together for almost two years on the play. It opened at the Yale Repertory Theater in April 1984, and then moved to Broadway's Cort Theatre. The show ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.