Ruby Dee - 61 pictures

Actress, Soundtrack, Writer
Ruby Dee was born on October 27, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Ruby Ann Wallace. She was an actress, known for American Gangster (2007), Do the Right Thing (1989) and Guiding Light (1952). She was married to Ossie Davis and Frankie Dee Brown. She died on June 11, 2014 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.

Born: October 27, 1922
Star sign: Scorpio
Height: 5' 2¼" (1.58 m)
Known for: American Gangster (2007), Do the Right Thing (1989), Guiding Light (1952), Jungle Fever (1991)
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Ruby Dee promotes her last spoken word performance on radio in New York City.

Still of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee in Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (2014)

Ruby Dee speaks with her grandson about her childhood.

Ruby Dee speaks with her grandson about the importance of love and being faithful in marriage.

Publicity still portrait of American singer and musician Nat King Cole and actress Ruby Dee in the WC Handy musical biographical film 'St. Louis Blues' (Paramount Pictures), Memphis, Tennessee, 1958.

Portrait of married American actors and Civil Rights activists Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (1917 - 2005) as they pose against a white background, New York, New York, 1980s.

Ruby Dee at event of The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)

Publicity still of actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis in the Broadway show 'Jeb,' 1946.

Married American actors Ruby Dee (left) and Ossie Davis sit on a sofa in front of a black background in a still from the television play 'Seven Times Monday'.

Lobby card from the Lorraine Hansberry drama 'A Raisin in the Sun' (Columbia Pictures), directed by Daniel Petrie and starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, and Roy Glenn, Chicago, Illinois, 1961.

Actress Ruby Dee attends the premiere of

Ruby Dee and Muta'Ali Muhammad

Still of Eddie Murphy and Ruby Dee in Tukstantis zodziu (2012)

Angela Bassett and Ruby Dee

Still of Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in Buck and the Preacher (1972)

Ruby Dee at event of For Colored Girls (2010)

Ruby Dee at event of For Colored Girls (2010)

Ruby Dee in American Playhouse: Zora Is My Name! (1990)

Actress Ruby Dee (R) and musician / actor Harry Belafonte attend a screening of

Still of Ruby Dee and Norman D. Golden II in Cop & ½ (1993)

Still of Wesley Snipes, Ossie Davis, Annabella Sciorra and Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever (1991)

Still of Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever (1991)

Still of Samuel L. Jackson and Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever (1991)

Ruby Dee circa 1960s

Ruby Dee circa 1960s

Ruby Dee and Celeste Holm

Marcia Gay Harden and Ruby Dee

Actress Ruby Dee reads from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s

Ruby Dee at event of The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)

Actress/Honoree Ruby Dee poses for a portrait at the 39th NAACP Image Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium on February 14, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

With Ruby Dee in

Viggo Mortensen and Ruby Dee at event of 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008)

Ruby Dee at event of 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008)

Ruby Dee at event of 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (2008)

Ruby Dee and Charles Burnett

Ruby Dee at event of American Gangster (2007)

Best Supporting Actress

Still of Denzel Washington and Ruby Dee in American Gangster (2007)

Ruby Dee and Little Richard

Ruby Dee and Gladys Knight

Angela Bassett, Oprah Winfrey and Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee and Cedric the Entertainer

Don Cheadle, Ruby Dee and Cedric the Entertainer

Ruby Dee and Jeff Friday

Don Cheadle, Ruby Dee, Cedric the Entertainer, Suzanne De Passe and Jeff Friday

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

The McHenrys and Ollie Johnson

Ruby Dee stars as Mrs. Henry

Herman with his grandmother

Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito and Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing (1989)

STAGE 2, (aka STAGE TWO) featuring Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis. Image dated March 9, 1964.

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