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Acting
Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith. She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005. She...
Highest rated appearances
Beat Street
as Cora
as The Oracle
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
as Dolores Williams
The Wishing Tree
as Mattie
Down in the Delta
as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
Bed of Roses
as Alice
Heading Home
as Mary Jones
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
The Mother
as Black Lady
The Inkwell
as Evelyn
The Vernon Johns Story
as Altona
A Perfect World
as Lottie
Life with Mikey
as Mrs. Gordon
Malcolm X
as School Teacher
The Bonfire of the Vanities
as Annie Lamb
Awakenings
as Nurse Margaret
To Sleep with Anger
as Suzie
The Women of Brewster Place
as Fannie Michael
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
as Blind Lily
Teachers
as Linda Ganz
Beat Street
as Cora
The Killing Floor
as Lilah Dean
The Brass Ring
as Mrs. Hauser
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
as Beck
Joshua's World
as Housekeeper
