Phylicia Rashād
出生 : 1948-06-19, Houston, Texas, USA
略歴
Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American Tony Award winning actress and singer, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
In 2004, Rashād became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun. She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaption of A Raisin in the Sun, which earned her the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
Rashād was dubbed "the mother" of the African American community at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards.
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Mrs. Parker
One man’s campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Four people find themselves stranded in a local diner on Christmas Eve amid a snowstorm. The movie is inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song.
Mary Anne Creed
After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damien Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damien - a fighter who has nothing to lose.
"SUNDAY" Legend
一流のミュージカル作曲家を目指す青年。30歳に向けてカウントダウンが始まるなか、恋や友情の悩み、最高の作品を作りたいという焦りに直面してゆく。
Self
An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, George C. Wolfe, Branford Marsalis, Phylicia Rashad and more take us behind the scenes to explore Boseman's extraordinary commitment to his craft.
Anna Campbell
Anna Campbell, now 65, sparked controversy when she bared it all on stage years ago. When a theatre festival asks to re-stage the work with a younger actress in her role, dramatic and comic fireworks ensue.
Narrator
"Twenty Pearls" tells a powerful story of sisterhood. In 1908, nine Black women enrolled at Howard University made one decision that would change the course of history. These college students created Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Libba Gardner (voice)
ジャズピアニストになることを夢見る音楽教師のジョーに、ニューヨークのジャズクラブで演奏するチャンスが巡ってくる。しかし喜びもつかの間、彼はマンホールに落ちてしまう。そこには青くかわいい姿の魂(ソウル)たちの世界が広がり、人間として生まれる前にどんな自分になるかを決めていた。夢を追い続けるジョーがそこで出会ったのは、自分がどのようになりたいかを決められない「ソウルの22番」だった。
Self
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Grandmother Journey
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Lillian
After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.
Self - Actress
A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.
Sarah
When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Mary Anne Creed
ロッキー(シルヴェスター・スタローン)の指導を受け、ついに世界チャンピオンになったアドニス(マイケル・B・ジョーダン)に、リングで父アポロの命を奪ったイワン・ドラゴの息子ヴィクターが挑戦状をたたきつける。ロッキーの反対を押し切り、父のリベンジを誓い試合に臨んだアドニスは、ヴィクターの反則行為によって勝利する。しかしアドニスは、ボクサーとしてその結果に納得できなかった。
Narrator
The story of an African American nightclub in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina that was a significant stop on the Chitlin’ Circuit in the segregated South. The owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, welcomed blacks and whites to his club. From the 1930s to the 1960s, many of the greatest black musicians played there, including Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Ruth Brown and Little Richard.
Victoria Young
A mockumentary that chronicles the prevalence of doping in the world of professional cycling.
Mary Anne Creed
世界ヘビー級チャンピオンだった父親、アポロ・クリードを知らずに育ったアドニス・ジョンソン。父親を生前に亡くしたが、その体には確実にボクサーの血が受け継がれていた。アドニスはフィラデルフィアに向かい、アポロ・クリードと新鋭ロッキー・バルボアの伝説の試合が行われた場所へ足を運ぶ。「兄弟愛の街」という意味を持つフィラデルフィアで、アドニスはロッキーを探し出し、トレーナーになってくれるよう頼む。ロッキーは二度とボクシングに関わらないと心に決めていたが、アドニスの姿に、かつて宿敵で親友だったアポロの強靱さと闘志を見出す。ロッキーは若きファイター、アドニスの頼みを聞き入れ指導を始める。元チャンピオンのロッキーはリングで戦ってきたどの相手よりも真剣にアドニスと対峙する。ロッキーをセコンドにつけたアドニスは、チャンピオンに手が届くところまですぐに昇り詰める。アドニスは果たしてリングに上がるまでに、闘志だけでなく真のファイターとしてのハートを手に入れられるのか？
Emily (Segment 5)
The movie is comprised of six vignettes. A look at the tumultuous marriage of Tim and Emily Hanratty over half a century.
Georgina Howe
A female FBI agent finds herself caught between her family and her work.
Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chronicling a century of African-American life. Wilson won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
Self
In this open-letter style documentary, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis' rich lives guide their grandson on his personal quest to master lasting love, conscious art, and undying activism.
Clairee
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their triumphs and tragedies, they congregate at Truvy’s beauty shop to ponder the mysteries of life and death, husbands and children - and hair and nails - all the important topics that truly unite and celebrate women.
Wilimena Deeds
Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.
Dorothy
Sally and Jason Danville's life are turned upside down when a tragic accident suddenly names them the caretakers of four young children.
Edna
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Gilda
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in general and women of color in particular.
Ella McKnight
恋愛ベタな理学療法士のヒロインがプロ・バスケットボールのスター選手と巡り逢ったことから繰り広げる三角関係と、その恋の行方を描いたロマンティック・コメディ。
Lena Younger
Dreams can make a life worth living, but they can also be dashed by bad decisions. This is the crossroads whare the Younger family find themselves when their father passes away and leaves them with $10,000 in life insurance money. Should they buy a new home for the family? Perhaps a liquor store? While no choice is easy, life on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s is even harder.
Self / Clair Huxtable (archive footage)
A retrospective of the phenomenally popular 1984-1992 situation comedy, "The Cosby Show," complete with memorable clips, bloopers and comments from series stars, producers and Bill Cosby himself.
Cassandra Hawkins
Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Elizabeth Barney
The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life. Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.
Dr. Coles
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Desiree
Story about Will Cleamons, a former teacher-turned-businessman who agrees to tutor 18-year-old high school dropout, Nicole Turner. Much to his surprise, their relationship not only helps Nicole build a future, but helps Cleamons put his personal life back together.
Ma Ponk
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
Det. Kate Jacobs
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.
Dr. Marion Hale (Psychiatrist)
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they turn to decides to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a demon.
Gladys Johnson
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Mayor Turner
Christmas at the Messiah Church in Washington D.C. A young preacher and, later in the day, a mysterious pregnant girl arrive at the church doors looking to begin new lives. The preacher, the Reverend Oliver Crawford, is not the judgmental church committee's first choice to be the Messiah's new pastor; an unwed father of a teenage son, he is given only two days to prove his worth to his new parishioners. Meanwhile, Katherine, a sixteen-year-old girl who is about to give birth, has come to the area to escape an abusive home and to search for a grandfather she doesn't know. With the help of local homeless advocate "Big" Willie Thorton, Crawford attempts to revive the spirit of the church and provide solace to the displaced girl.
Janice Grant
Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed together.
Aunt Polly
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Clair Huxtable
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
Aunt Polly
An musical adaptation of the book "Pollyanna" set in the 1950's in which an orphan tries to use gladness to unite the people in a small southern town.
Lynne Jacobi
An assistant district attorney's (Phylicia Rashad) co-worker lover (Philip Michael Thomas) plans to prove her wrong about a case.
Disneyland Cleaning Lady
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey goes into the "Cheers" bar, meets up with the characters from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.
Eliza
The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.
Inspired by the exploits of New York's Guardian Angels, which began as a band of streetwise young people who formed an anti-crime subway patrol and went on to gain a national reputation and units in major cities around the country, this film unites three New York City youths as leaders of a citizens' patrol tackling gangs terrorizing merchants and local citizens.
A man becomes pregnant in a zany comedy.
Mary Anne Creed (née Johnson)
The fourth installment in the Rocky spin-off series, centered on Apollo Creed's son Donnie.
