Phylicia Rashād
Nascimento : 1948-06-19, Houston, Texas, USA
História
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
Depois de dominar o mundo do boxe, Adonis Creed tem prosperado em sua carreira e vida familiar. Quando um amigo de infância e ex-prodígio do boxe, Damien Anderson, ressurge depois de cumprir uma longa sentença na prisão, ele está ansioso para provar que merece sua chance no ringue. O confronto entre ex-amigos é mais do que apenas uma briga. Para acertar as contas, Adonis deve colocar seu futuro em risco para lutar contra Damien - um lutador que não tem nada a perder.
"SUNDAY" Legend
Prestes a fazer 30 anos, o compositor Jonathan Larson reluta para levar adiante seu sonho de escrever um grande musical.
Self
Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Phylicia Rashad e outros nos convidam para uma conversa para explorar o compromisso extraordinário de Chadwick Boseman com sua arte em um olhar íntimo sobre a arte do ator indicado ao Oscar® e o processo de atuação que informou suas performances transformadoras.
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)
Joe Gardner é um professor de música de ensino fundamental desanimado por não conseguir alcançar seu sonho de tocar no lendário clube de jazz The Blue Note, em Nova York. Quando um acidente o transporta para fora do seu corpo, fazendo com que ele exista em outra realidade na forma de sua alma, ele se vê forçado a embarcar em uma aventura ao lado da alma de uma criança que ainda está aprendendo sobre si, para aprender o que é necessário para retomar sua vida.
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
Desde que foi traído por seu aprendiz, a vida perdeu a graça para este fabricante de brinquedos. Mas a chegada de sua neta está prestes a mudar seu destino.
Lillian
Depois de perder sua esposa e sua memória em um acidente de carro, um pai solteiro passa por um tratamento experimental agonizante que faz com que ele questione quem ele realmente é.
Self - Actress
Homenageie a vida, o legado e a carreira de Chadwick Boseman, a estrela de "Pantera Negra", e a marca que ele deixou na tela e fora dela. Apresentado por Robin Roberts, esse especial mostra homenagens de celebridades, políticos e fãs do mundo inteiro, palavras dos que contracenaram e conheceram melhor Boseman, e revela a luta dele contra a doença.
Sarah
Uma cidadã exemplar é acusada de assassinar o marido, e sua advogada logo desconfia de uma conspiração.
Mary Anne Creed
Adonis Creed saiu mais forte do que nunca de sua luta contra 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan e segue sua trajetória rumo ao campeonato mundial de boxe, contra toda a desconfiança que acompanha a sombra de seu pai e com o apoio de Rocky. Sua próxima luta não será tão simples: Ele precisa enfrentar um adversário que possui uma forte ligação com o passado de sua família, o que torna tudo ainda mais complexo.
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
Adonis Johnson nunca conheceu o pai, Apollo Creed, que faleceu antes de seu nascimento. Ainda assim, a luta está em seu sangue e ele decide entrar no mundo das competições profissionais de boxe. Após muito insistir, Adonis consegue convencer Rocky Balboa a ser seu treinador e, enquanto um luta pela glória, o outro luta pela vida.
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
Em uma versão contemporânea atualizada da amada peça de teatro e filme de 1989, "Steel Magnolias" narra a vida e amizade de seis mulheres na Louisiana. Apoiando-se nos seus triunfos e tragédias, eles se reúnem no salão de beleza do Truvy para refletir sobre os mistérios da vida e da morte, maridos e filhos - e cabelos e unhas - todos os tópicos importantes que realmente unem e celebram as mulheres.
Wilimena Deeds
Um homem de sucesso sempre cumpriu as expectativas dos que o rodeiam: desde presidir a empresa de seu pai até se comprometer com sua bela noiva. Sua vida perfeita mudará quando a faxineira de seu escritório o apresenta a outra realidade.
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 história de uma exótica dançarina com múltiplas personalidades, lutando para permanecer fiel a si mesma e ao mesmo tempo lutando contra dois alter egos muito originais: uma criança de sete anos, chamada Genius e uma sulista branca racista chamada Alice. Para reprimir as múltiplas vozes em sua cabeça, Frankie faz tratamento com uma psicoterapeuta para desvendar e superar o mistério dos fantasmas internos que a assustam. Com uma cintilante performance de Halle Berry, que foi indicada ao Globo de Ouro®.
Gilda
PARA GAROTAS DE COR une as histórias de nove mulheres enquanto elas se deslocam entre a existência uma da outra. Crises, corações partidos e crimes colocarão essas nova mulheres na mesma órbita, onde elas encontrarão pontos em comum e compreensão. Cada uma falará sua verdade como nunca antes. E cada uma saberá que ela é uma pessoa completa, gloriosa e divina em todas as suas cores.
Ella McKnight
Leslie Wright é uma fisioterapeuta que não consegue namorar, já que os homens sempre a vêem como uma boa amiga. Fã de basquete, um dia ela tem como cliente um grande astro do esporte, Scott McKnight. Ela passa a tratá-lo em tempo integral, iniciando um procedimento visando seu retorno às quadras, algo que muitos duvidam que vá acontecer. No meio deste processo, os dois percebem que há algo mais entre eles além do relacionamento entre médico e paciente.
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
Jovem bela e pobre trabalha como babá para casal bem-sucedido. Mas a patroa aparece morta e ela, após ser vista usando seu carro, roupas e jóias, transforma-se na principal suspeita do crime. E tudo indica que o viúvo possa estar especialmente interessado em sua incriminação.
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
Músicas do estilo Broadway são usados para contar essa interessante historia de uma órfã, Nessa aventura Polly chega em Harrington, Alabama, para se juntar a sua tia rica. Ela encontra a cidade em estado de desarmonia, os habitantes da cidade tentam se adaptar a um novo diretor do orfanato, bem como o estado de agitação que a eleição pode trazer.
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
A órfã Polly muda-se para o Alabama para morar com sua tia. Sua nova casa está inserida em um bairro negro da era da segregação, repleto de conflitos internos. Sendo uma criança pragmática e otimista, Polly tem um efeito edificante em todos aqueles com quem ela entra em contato, incluindo um médico trabalhador. Através de uma combinação de música e esperança, Polly se esforça para unir a comunidade
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.
