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• Became interested in acting while in her high school drama club.
• Made her Broadway debut in 1980 in the Tony-nominated play Home.
• In 1988, played Bertha Holly in August Wilson's stage production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
• Won a Helen Hayes Award for her performance as Clemma Diggins in Broadhurst Theatre's production of Proposals in 1998.
• Was a company member of the Negro Ensemble Company.
• Won an Obie Award for her performance in Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives.
• In 2011, was a guest speaker at the Actors' Equity Association's New Member Reception.