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Ruby Dee
- Department:Acting
- Place of birth:Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Birthday:10/27/1922
- Deathday:6/11/2014
- Popularity:1
- Also known as:Ruby Ann Wallace
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Acting and producing career
Acting
- 2018movie

Poitier's Walter Lee
as Self (archive footage)
- 2014movie

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
as Self
- 2013movie

Betty and Coretta
as Narrator
- 2013movie

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
as Self
- 2012movie

A Thousand Words
as Annie McCall
- 2011movie

Video Girl
as Valerie
- 2011movie

Politics of Love
- 2011movie

The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll
as Miss Candy
- 2009movie

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
as Narrator (voice)
- 2009movie

America
as Mrs. Harper
- 2007movie

Steam
as Doris
- 2007movie

American Gangster
as Mama Lucas
- 2007movie

All About Us
as Ms. Ella
- 2007movie

In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema
as Herself
- 2007movie

Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson
as Self
- 2006movie

Discovering William Greaves
as Self
- 2006movie

The Way Back Home
as Maude
- 2006movie

No. 2
as Nanna Maria
- 2005movie

Their Eyes Were Watching God
as Nanny
- 2004movie

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
as Self
- 2004movie

TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
as (archive footage)
- 2003movie

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
- 2002movie

Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun'
as Self
- 2001movie

Taking Back Our Town
as Emelda West
- 2001movie

Feast of All Saints
as Elsie Claviere
- 2000movie

Finding Buck McHenry
as Mrs. Henry
- 2000movie

A Storm in Summer
as Grandmother
- 1999movie

The Unfinished Journey
as Narrator (voice)
- 1999movie

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
as Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany
- 1999movie

Baby Geniuses
as Margo
- 1999movie

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
as Self
- 1999movie

Passing Glory
as Mommit Porter
- 1998movie

A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner
as Narrator
- 1998movie

The Wall
as Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge")
- 1998movie

Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood
as Self
- 1997movie

A Simple Wish
as Hortence
- 1997movie

Sports on the Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
- 1996movie

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
as Indigo
- 1996movie

Mr. and Mrs. Loving
as Sophia
- 1995movie

Just Cause
as Evangeline Ferguson
- 1995movie

Tuesday Morning Ride
as Jennie
- 1994movie

Whitewash
as Grandmother (voice)
- 1993movie

After Goodbye
as Narrator
- 1993movie

Cop & ½
as Rachel
- 1993movie

The Ernest Green Story
as Lydia Wilson
- 1992movie

Color Adjustment
as Narrator
- 1991movie

Jazztime Tale
as Narrator (voice)
- 1991movie

Jungle Fever
as Lucinda Purify
- 1990movie

Decoration Day
as Rowena
- 1990movie

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
as Jackie's Mother
- 1990movie

Love at Large
as Corrine Dart
- 1990movie

Zora is My Name!
as Zora Neale Hurston
- 1989movie

Making 'Do the Right Thing'
as Self
- 1989movie

Do the Right Thing
as Mother Sister
- 1984movie

Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Mrs. Grimes
- 1982movie

Long Day's Journey Into Night
as Mary Tyrone
- 1982movie

Cat People
as Female
- 1980movie

All God's Children
as Irene Whitfield
- 1980movie

The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
- 1979movie

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Grandmother Baxter
- 1976movie

Countdown at Kusini
as Leah Matanzima
- 1974movie

Wedding Band
as Julia Augustine
- 1974movie

It's Good to Be Alive
as Ruth Campanella
- 1973movie

Chelsea D.H.O.
as Dr. Bianca Pearson
- 1972movie

Black Girl
as Netta's mother
- 1972movie

Buck and the Preacher
as Ruth
- 1972movie

To Be Young, Gifted and Black
as Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters
- 1972movie

On Merit
as Narrator (voice)
- 1971movie

The Sheriff
as Sue Ann Lucas
- 1970movie

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
- 1969movie

Deadlock
as Lucinda
- 1968movie

Uptight
as Laurie
- 1967movie

The Incident
as Joan Robinson
- 1967movie

Now is the Time
as Self
- 1966movie

Neighbours
as Vicky Kingsbury
- 1963movie

Gone Are the Days!
as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins
- 1963movie

The Balcony
as Thief
- 1961movie

A Raisin in the Sun
as Ruth Younger
- 1959movie

Take a Giant Step
as Christine
- 1959movie

Virgin Island
as Ruth
- 1958movie

St. Louis Blues
as Elizabeth
- 1957movie

Edge of the City
as Lucy Tyler
- 1954movie

Go Man Go
as Irma Jackson
- 1951movie

The Tall Target
as Rachel
- 1950movie

No Way Out
as Connie Brooks (uncredited)
- 1950movie

The Jackie Robinson Story
as Rae Robinson
- 1948movie

The Fight Never Ends
- 1948movie

What a Guy
- 1947movie

Easy to Get
as Drugstore Girl
- 1946movie

Love in Syncopation
- 1946movie

That Man of Mine
as Joan
- -tv

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Mary Wilson
- -tv

Spenser: For Hire
- -tv

The Great Adventure
as Harriet Tubman
- -tv

The Golden Girls
as Mammy Watkins
- -tv

China Beach
- -tv

Little Bill
- -tv

Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rowena Finch
- -tv

The Stand
as Mother Abagail Freemantle
- -tv

Police Woman
- -tv

The Fugitive
as Laura Smith
- -tv

Iconoclasts
as Self
- -tv

Middle Ages
as Estelle Williams
- -tv

The Defenders
as Catherine Collins
- -tv

The Kennedy Center Honors
as Self
- -tv

Lincoln
as Elizabeth Keckley
- -tv

Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
- -tv

American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
- -tv

Christianity: The First 1000 Years
as Herself - Narrator
- -tv

The Atlanta Child Murders
as Faye Williams
- -tv

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Grandma (voice)
- -tv

The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
- -tv

Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years
as Narrator
- -tv

Touched by an Angel
as LaBelle Springbelt
- -tv

Great Performances
as Self
- -tv

Roots: The Next Generations
as Queen Haley
- -tv

The Oscars
as Self
- -tv

Armchair Theatre
as Vicky Kingsbury
Producing
