Mary Alice

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Mary Alice
Alice at the 45th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, 1993
Born	Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1941 (1941-12-03) (age 66) Indianola, Mississippi, USA
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series 1993 I'll Fly Away Tony Awards Best Featured Actress in a Play 1987 Fences

Mary Alice (born December 3, 1941) is an American Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning 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 as the Oracle, after Foster died in 2001.

[edit] Filmography

• All My Children (1970)
• The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
• The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)
• Just an Old Sweet Song (1976)
• Sparkle (1976)
• Lawman Without a Gun (1979)
• The Color of Friendship (1981)
• The Brass Ring (1983)
• Beat Street (1984)
• Concealed Enemies (1984)
• Teachers (1984)
• Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
• A Different World (1987)
• The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
• Awakenings (1990)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• To Sleep with Anger (1990)
• I'll Fly Away (1991)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• A Perfect World (1993)
• Laurel Avenue (1993)
• Life with Mikey (1993)
• The Mother (1994)
• The Inkwell (1994)
• The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
• Heading Home (1995)
• Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)
• Bed of Roses (1996)
• Down in the Delta (1998)
• Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
• The Wishing Tree (1999)
• The Photographer (2000)
• The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• The Life (2002)
• Enter the Matrix (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• 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)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series Ellen Corby (1976) · Kristy McNichol (1977) · Nancy Marchand (1978) · Kristy McNichol (1979) · Nancy Marchand (1980) · Nancy Marchand (1981) · Nancy Marchand (1982) · Doris Roberts (1983) · Alfre Woodard (1984) · Betty Thomas (1985) · Bonnie Bartlett (1986) · Bonnie Bartlett (1987) · Patricia Wettig (1988) · Melanie Mayron (1989) · Marg Helgenberger (1990) · Madge Sinclair (1991) · Valerie Mahaffey (1992) · Mary Alice (1993) · Leigh Taylor-Young (1994) · Julianna Margulies (1995) · Tyne Daly (1996) · Kim Delaney (1997) · Camryn Manheim (1998) · Holland Taylor (1999) · Allison Janney (2000) Complete list: (1962-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play Shirley Knight (1976) · Trazana Beverley (1977) · Ann Wedgeworth (1978) · Joan Hickson (1979) · Dinah Manoff (1980) · Swoosie Kurtz (1981) · Amanda Plummer (1982) · Judith Ivey (1983) · Christine Baranski (1984) · Judith Ivey (1985) · Swoosie Kurtz (1986) · Mary Alice (1987) · L. Scott Caldwell (1988) · Christine Baranski (1989) · Margaret Tyzack (1990) · Irene Worth (1991) · Brid Brennan (1992) · Debra Monk (1993) · Jane Adams (1994) · Frances Sternhagen (1995) · Audra McDonald (1996) · Lynne Thigpen (1997) · Anna Manahan (1998) · Elizabeth Franz (1999) · Blair Brown (2000) Complete list: (1947-1975) · (1976-2000) · (2001-present)