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 70) 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
Law & Order (1993) as Virginia Bryan (episode "Mother Love")
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

^ 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

Awards for Mary Alice

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (1975–2000)

Frances Sternhagen (1975) · Rachel Roberts (1976) · Rosemary De Angelis (1977) · Eileen Atkins (1978) · Pamela Reed (1979) · Lois de Banzie (1980) · Swoosie Kurtz (1981) · Amanda Plummer (1982) · Judith Ivey (1983) · Christine Baranski (1984) · Judith Ivey (1985) · Joanna Gleason (1986) · Mary Alice (1987) · Christine Estabrook (1988) · Tovah Feldshuh (1989) · Frances Conroy (1990) · Irene Worth (1991) · Christine Baranski (1992) · Madeline Kahn (1993) · Jane Adams (1994) · Tara FitzGerald (1995) · Elaine Stritch (1996) · Dana Ivey (1997) · Allison Janney (1998) · Anna Friel (1999) · Marylouise Burke (2000)

Complete list · (1975–2000) · (2001–2025)

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Drama Series (1976–2000)

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 · (1959–1975) · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025)

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (1976–2000)

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) · (2001–2025)

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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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