Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee was born in Cleveland (United States) on October 27, 1924. After more than sixty years of career, she has received the greatest recognition after being nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress for her work in American Gangster . At 83, she is the oldest award nominee after Titanic ‘s endearing old lady Gloria Stuart , who was nominated at 87.

Dee collects almost a hundred titles in his more than six decades of career. He made his film debut when he was only fifteen in What a Guy . From that moment on, he combined television and cinema almost fifty percent. Thus, without being a regular actress in any series, she has gone through such emblematic titles as The Golden Girls or CSI: Las Vegas , as well as various telefilms such as A Summer Storm (2000), by Robert Wise .. In any case, Dee’s career has been marked by supporting roles, just as his life has been marked by his family. She is now a widow, since her husband died in 2005. A marriage that lasted since 1948. Together they had three children and a career in common, since Ossie Davis was also an actor.

In Rudy Dee’s filmography, titles such as A Ray of Light (1950), directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz , in a small role, or The Tall Target (1951), by Anthony Mann , where she was a slave employed as a maid, stand out. . She coincided with her husband in several films such as Gone Are Days (1963) or Black Girl (1972), which Ossie himself directed.

Sidney Poitier chose her for his directorial debut in the western Buck and the Faker (1972). She was also a supporting role for Paul Schrader in Kiss of the Panther (1982), and for Spike Lee she worked twice in the racially charged dramas Do the Right Thing (1989) and Wild Fever (1991), where she was the wife of his husband in real life Her work has continued as an incessant drip for titles like Just Cause (1995), where she shared the bill with Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne .. A very full working life that she reached its culmination with the character of Frank Lucas’s mother in Ridley Scott ‘s film American Gangster . The veteran actress composed the adorable mom of a gangster who, on the one hand, fears for her son because of the kind of life he may be leading, but at the same time is happy because she wants nothing more than the well-being of her family. The sweet character she created lived up to her fictional son, Denzel Washington , with whom she had some emotional face-to-face in the film.