Phylicia Rashad
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Houston, Texas, U.S. | |
| Alma mater | Howard University (BFA) |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, singer |
| Years active | 1972–present |
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| Children | 2, including Condola Rashad |
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Phylicia Rashad (/fɪˈliːʃə rəˈʃɑːd/ fih-li-shə rə-shahd) (née Ayers-Allen; born June 19, 1948) is an American actress. She is dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University and best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992) which earned her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and 1986. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby (1996–2000).
In 2004, Rashad became the first black actress to win the
Broadway credits include Into the Woods (1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2008). Rashad won a NAACP Image Award when she reprised her A Raisin in the Sun
role in the 2008 television adaptation.
She has appeared in the films For Colored Girls (2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and Creed III (2023). She also voiced Brenda Glover on the Nick Jr. animated children's educational television series Little Bill (1999–2004). In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of three plays by August Wilson, in major theaters in Seattle, Princeton, New Jersey; and Los Angeles.
Early life and education
Phylicia Ayers-Allen was born on June 19, 1948, in Houston, Texas.magna cum laude in 1970 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. While there, she was initiated into the Alpha Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.[8]
Career
1971–1983: Early work and Broadway debut
Ayers-Allen first became known for her roles stage making her
Deena Jones in Dreamgirls (she also was Sheryl Lee Ralph's understudy until leaving the show in 1982, after being passed over as Ralph's full-time replacement).[9] She played a Munchkin in The Wiz for three and a half years.[10] In 1978, she released the album Josephine Superstar, a disco concept album telling the life story of Josephine Baker.[11] The album was mainly written and produced by Jacques Morali and Victor Willis, Rashad's second husband and the original lead singer and lyricist of the Village People
. She met Willis while they were both cast in The Wiz.
1982–2003: The Cosby Show and other roles
Other Broadway credits include Huntington Theatre in Boston.
Rashad joined the cast of the
animated television series Little Bill
, in which the actress voiced Bill's mother, Brenda, until the show's end in 2004.
In 1993, Rashad was the first narrator at Disney's Candlelight Processional when the event was moved to Epcot. Her narration of the nativity story was recorded and released by Walt Disney Records.[15] She also played a role in the pre-show of the Dinosaur ride at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park as Dr. Helen Marsh, the head of the Dino Institute.[16]
2004–2018: Theatre roles and acclaim
Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire
in 2008In the early 21st century, Rashad was the first black actress of any nationality to win the Best Actress (Play)
Tony Award, for her 2004 performance as Lena Younger in a revival of the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Rashad also won the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Best Actress in a Play for A Raisin in the Sun, tying (split award that year) with Viola Davis for the play Intimate Apparel. Rashad was nominated again for a Tony the following year, for her performance in Gem of the Ocean. In 2007, Rashad made her directorial debut with the Seattle Repertory Theatre's production of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean.[17] In 2008, Rashad starred on Broadway as Big Mama in an all African-American production of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, directed by her sister Debbie Allen. She appeared alongside stage veterans James Earl Jones (Big Daddy) and Anika Noni Rose (Maggie), as well as film actor Terrence Howard
, who made his Broadway debut as Brick.
Rashad played "Kill Moves"' wealthy mother on the
Royale Theatre of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play, including Audra McDonald as Ruth Younger, and Sean Combs as Walter Lee Younger. The television film adaption debuted at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was broadcast by ABC on February 25, 2008.[19] According to Nielsen Media Research, the program was watched by 12.7 million viewers and ranked #9 in the ratings for the week ending March 2, 2008.[20]
In 2009, she appeared as Violet Weston, the drug-addicted matriarch of
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange. Rashad said about this work in an interview with Vibe Movies & TV in 2010: "I saw the original Broadway play. I thought it was amazing how such a story that wasn't pretty was poetry. Usually poetry is about lofty things and this was the poetry of speech and the movement of everyday people. I found a little bit of it off-putting to tell you the truth, because it was so angry when I saw it. And I think Tyler Perry has added an element here that wasn't in the original stage production, and that is the necessity for taking responsibility for one's own self otherwise you are just living to die. That is where he wrote the line [in the film], 'You gotta take some responsibility in this. Otherwise you are just living to die.'"[23]
In 2012, she starred in another
Yvette A. Flunder, pastor of The City of Refuge Church in San Francisco, Calif., as part of the Dustin Lance Black mini-series When We Rise. Her appearance in the show highlighted the reputed compassion of the church, the commitment of its leadership, and the loving home the church provides to minister in the tough, primarily African-American community in San Francisco.[27]
2019–present
From 2019 to 2021 she portrayed Carol Clarke in the
13 Reasons Why (2020)[32] and the CBS / Paramount+ legal series The Good Fight (2022).[33] She returned to Broadway in the Dominique Morisseau play Skeleton Crew (2022) for which she earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.[34]
Academia and legacy
She was dubbed "The Mother of the Black Community" at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards.[35] In May 2021, Rashad was appointed as dean of Howard University's Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.[36] In August 2023, Howard University announced Rashad is stepping down as dean at the end of the 2023–24 academic year.[37]
Personal life
Marriages and family
Rashad's first marriage, in 1972, was to dentist William Lancelot Bowles, Jr. They had one son, William Lancelot Bowles III, who was born the following year. The marriage ended in 1975. Rashad married Victor Willis (original lead singer of the Village People) in 1978; they had met during the run of The Wiz. They divorced in 1982.
She married a third time, to
Condola Phylea Rashād,[40] was born on December 11, 1986, in New York. The couple divorced in early 2001, and she has retained the surname Rashad.[41]
Friendship with Bill Cosby
In June 2021, her comments supporting the release of former co-star Bill Cosby from prison were criticized.[42] Some called for Howard University to revoke her appointment, and Howard University stated that "Personal positions of University leadership do not reflect Howard University's policies."[43] Rashad later apologized in an email to Howard University students and their parents.[44] Rashad faced widespread criticism after she posted the following tweet in support of Bill Cosby after he was released from jail on a technicality: "FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected!" This support was characterized as rape apologism.[45]
Rashad is a vegetarian.[46]
Acting credits
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | The Broad Coalition | - | Credited as Phylicia Ayers-Allen |
| 1983 | The Wiz | MunchkinField/Mouse | Video |
| 1995 | Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored | Ma Ponk | |
| 1999 | Loving Jezebel | Alice Melville | |
| 2000 | The Visit | Dr. Coles | |
| 2001 | Little Bill: Big Little Bill | Brenda Glover (voice) | Video |
| 2010 | Just Wright | Ella McKnight | |
| Frankie & Alice | Edna | ||
| For Colored Girls | Gilda | ||
| 2012 | Good Deeds | Wililemma | |
| 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly | Demeter | |
| 2015 | Emily & Tim | Emily Hanratty | |
| Creed | Mary Anne Creed | ||
| 2018 | Creed II | Mary Anne Creed | |
| 2020 | A Fall from Grace | Sarah Miller/Betty Mills | |
| Black Box | Dr. Lilian Brooks | ||
| Soul | Libba Gardner (voice) | ||
| Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Grandmother Journey Jangle | ||
| 2021 | The Disaster Dreams | Brianna's Mom (voice) | Short |
| Tick, Tick... Boom! | 'Sunday' Legend #12 | [47] | |
| 2023 | Creed III | Mary Anne Creed | |
| Our Son | Maya | ||
| 2024 | The Beekeeper | Eloise Parker |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Delvecchio | Ventita Ray | Episode: "Wax Job" |
| 1978 | Watch Your Mouth | - | Episode: "First Days - Part 1 & 2" |
| 1981 | We're Fighting Back | - | TV movie |
| 1984 | One Life to Live | Courtney Wright | Regular cast |
| 1984–92 | The Cosby Show | Clair Hanks Huxtable | Main cast |
| 1985 | Santa Barbara | Felicia Dalton | Regular cast |
| The Love Boat | Lonette Becker | Episode: "A Day in Port" | |
| 1987 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eliza | TV movie |
| 1988 | Mickey's 60th Birthday | Disneyland Cleaning Lady | TV movie |
| 1988–90 | A Different World | Clair Huxtable | Guest (season 1-2), recurring cast (season 3) |
| 1989 | False Witness | Lynne Jacobi | TV movie |
Polly
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Aunt Polly | TV movie | |
| 1990 | Reading Rainbow | Herself | Episode: "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
|
Jane Goodfellow (voice) | Episode: "What's Michelangelo Good For?" | |
Polly: Comin' Home!
|
Aunt Polly | TV movie | |
| 1991 | The Earth Day Special | Clair Huxtable | TV special |
| Blossom | Blossom's Dream Mom | Episode: "Blossom's Blossom" | |
| Jailbirds | Janice Grant | TV movie | |
| 1993 | American Playhouse | Mayor Turner | Episode: "Hallelujah" |
| 1994 | Ghostwriter | Herself | Episode: "A Crime of Two Cities" |
| The Cosby Mysteries | Hadley Roebuck | Episode: "Expert Witness" | |
| Touched by an Angel | Elizabeth Jessup | Episode: "Tough Love" | |
| David's Mother | Gladys Johnson | TV movie | |
| 1995 | The Possession of Michael D | Dr. Marion Hale | TV movie |
| In the House | Rowena | Episode: "Sister Act" | |
| 1996 | The Babysitter's Seduction | Detective Kate Jacobs | TV movie |
| 1996–2000 | Cosby | Ruth Lucas | Main cast |
| 1998 | Free of Eden | Desiree | TV movie |
| 1998–2000 | Intimate Portrait | Herself | Recurring guest |
| 1999–2004 | Little Bill | Brenda Glover (voice) | Main cast |
| 2000 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Lady Fulten (voice) | Episode: "The Princess and the Pauper" |
| Bull | Mrs. Granville | Episode: "What the Past Will Bring" | |
| 2001 | Biography | Narrator (voice) | Episode: "Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over" |
| The Old Settler | Elizabeth | TV movie | |
| Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Cassandra Hawkins | TV movie | |
| 2002 | Touched by an Angel | Elizabeth Jessup | Episode: "The Last Chapter" |
| 2007 | Everybody Hates Chris | Kathleen Devereaux | Episode: "Everybody Hates Kwanzaa" |
| 2007–14 | Psych | Winnie Guster | Guest cast (season 2-3 & 8) |
| 2008 | The Life & Times of Tim | The Boss's Wife (voice) | Episode: "Theo Strikes Back/Amy Gets Wasted" |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger | TV movie | |
| 2011 | Change of Plans | Dorothy | TV movie |
| 2012 | Steel Magnolias | Clairee Belcher | TV movie |
| 2012–13 | The Cleveland Show | Dee Dee Tubbs (voice) | Guest (season 3), recurring cast (season 4) |
| 2013 | Do No Harm | Dr. Vanessa Young | Main cast |
| 2014 | Sofia the First | Glacia the Ice Witch (voice) | Episode: "Winter's Gift" |
| 2016–17 | Jean-Claude Van Johnson | Jane | Main cast |
| 2016–18 | Empire | Diana DuBois | Recurring cast (season 3-5) |
| 2017 | When We Rise | Yvette Flunder | Episode: "Night IV: Part VI and VII" |
| Tour de Pharmacy | Victoria Young | TV movie | |
| 2019 | The Rocketeer
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May Songbird (voice) | Episode: "Songbird Soars Again" |
| 2019–21 | This Is Us | Carol Clarke | Guest (season 3-4), recurring cast (season 5) |
| David Makes Man | Dr. Woods-Trap | Main cast (season 1), guest (season 2) | |
| 2020 | Station 19 | Pilar | Episode: "Ice Ice Baby" |
| 13 Reasons Why | Pastor | Recurring cast (season 4) | |
| 2021 | Grey's Anatomy | Nell Timms | Episode: "Sign O' the Times" |
| 2022 | The Good Fight | Renetta Clark | Recurring cast (season 6) |
| Little America | Margaret Jean the Queen | Episode: "Mr. Song" | |
| 2023 | The Crossover | Barbara | Episode: "Huddle Up" |
| Curses! | Georgia Snitker (voice) | Recurring cast | |
| 2024 | Diarra from Detroit | Vonda | Main cast |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death | Performer | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway | [48] |
| 1975 | The Wiz | Field Mouse / Munchkin | Majestic Theatre, Broadway | [49] |
| 1981 | Dreamgirls | Ensemble | Imperial Theatre, Broadway | [50] |
| 1988 | Into the Woods | The Witch (Replacement) | Martin Beck Theatre , Broadway |
[51] |
| 1992 | Jelly's Last Jam | Anita (Replacement) | Virginia Theatre, Broadway | [52] |
| 2004 | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger | Royale Theatre, Broadway | [53] |
| 2004 | Gem of the Ocean | Aunt Esther | Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway | [54] |
| 2005 | A Wonderful Life | Miss Bailey | Shubert Theatre, Broadway | [55] |
| 2007 | Cymbeline | Queen | Vivian Beaumont Theatre , Broadway |
[56] |
| 2008 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Mama | Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway | [57] |
| 2009 | August: Osage County | Violet Weston (Replacement) | Imperial Theatre, Broadway | [58] |
| 2022 | Skeleton Crew | Faye | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway | [59] |
| 2023 | Purlie Victorious | Producer only | Music Box Theatre, Broadway | [60] |
Awards and honors
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- 2003: Honored as Woman of the Year by the Harvard Black Men's Forum
- 2005: received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.) degree from Brown University[64]
- 2011: received an honorary doctorate degree from Spelman College for her work in the Arts[65]
- 2011: named the first Denzel Washington Chair professor in Theatre at Fordham University, supported by a $2 million gift from the actor[66]
- 2019: received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from The University of South Carolina for her work in the Arts and Arts Education[67]
Notes
- Murder She Wrote.
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External links
- Phylicia Rashad at the Internet Broadway Database
- Phylicia Rashad at IMDb
- Phylicia Rashad at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
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