Mary Alice

For the United States Navy ship, see USS Mary Alice (SP-397).

Mary Alice
Alice at the 45th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, 1993
Born	Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1941 (1941-12-03) (age 69) Indianola, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1974–present

Mary Alice (born December 3, 1941) is an American actress.

Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar (née Jurnakin) and Sam Smith.^[1] In 1987 she received a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her work in Fences. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993 for I'll Fly Away (1991–1993). She replaced Gloria Foster in the film The Matrix Revolutions and video game Enter The Matrix as the Oracle, after Foster died in 2001.

Filmography

• The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
• The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)
• Sanford and Son (1974–1975)
• Good Times (1975)
• Just an Old Sweet Song (1976)
• Sparkle (1976) as Effie
• Lawman Without a Gun (1979)
• All My Children (1980)
• The Color of Friendship (1981)
• The Brass Ring (1983)
• Beat Street (1984) as Cora Kirkland
• Concealed Enemies (1984)
• Teachers (1984)
• Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
• A Different World (1987) as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic (Episodes 13–21, 23–44)
• The Women of Brewster Place (1989) as Fannie Michael
• Awakenings (1990)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Suzie
• To Sleep with Anger (1990)
• I'll Fly Away (1991) as Marguerite Peck
• Malcolm X (1992)
• A Perfect World (1993)
• Laurel Avenue (1993) as Maggie Arnett
• Life with Mikey (1993) as Mrs. Gordon
• The Mother (1994)
• The Inkwell (1994) as Evelyn
• The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
• Heading Home (1995)
• Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)
• Bed of Roses (1996)
• Down in the Delta (1998) as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
• Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999) as Dolores Williams
• The Wishing Tree (1999)
• The Photographer (2000) as Violet
• The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
• Sunshine State (2002) as Mrs. Eunice Stokes
• The Life (2002)
• Enter the Matrix (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as The Oracle
• What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
• The Burly Man Chronicles (2004)
• The Matrix Recalibrated (2004)
• The Matrix Online (2005)
• Narrator Crime Scene USA (2000–2009)

References

1. ^ Mary Alice Biography (1941-)

External links

• Mary Alice at AllRovi
• Mary Alice at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mary Alice at the Internet Movie Database
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Mary Alice

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Name	Alice, Mary
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Date of birth	December 3, 1941
Place of birth	Indianola, Mississippi, U.S.
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