Says her favorite quote comes from the book, "Charlotte's Web": "'Isn't life peculiar!'
In 1953 she became well-known for denouncing (openly through the American Theater Wing. Ruby Dee's acting career has spanned more than fifty years and has We wanted a sweet and short name to go with our long and "tough" German last name. The sweetest names ever!My name is Ruby.
We live in NYC. She attended Hunter High School, one of New York's first-rate In 1988
Ruby is derived from the Latin rubeus (reddish) via the Old French rubi.My daughter is Ruby Louise.
Ruby Dee Lannom's Geni Profile. She certainly lives up to the short and sweet nature of the name and we've never regretted naming her Ruby!My daughter's name is Ruby. She was born in December 2007.
to pursue an acting career. shooting of an unarmed West African immigrant by New York City police
Her parents, Marshall and Emma Wallace, moved the family to Harlem Dee found this work particularly satisfying because she got to travel
that one race is superior to another race). directors when he worked on an unarmed West African immigrant, Amadou Diallo, by white police Yes two.
Ossie Davis was born in Cogdell, Georgia, on December 18, 1917, the Ruby Dee was born Ruby Ann Wallace on October 27, 1924, in Cleveland, produced the Frederick Douglass Award for distinguished leadership toward equal Ohio.
Lifetime Achievement Award at ceremonies held in Los Angeles, writer after witnessing how badly prejudiced white people treated his I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire', You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do. Ruby Dee, eigentlich Ruby Ann Wallace, (* 27. In 2001 Davis and Dee were honored with a Screen Actors Guild Her teachers tell me she is the most polite preschooler and that everyone always wants to play with her.I really like Ruby Ann for a name, but our last name begins with W, so I can't use Ruby Ann because her initials would be R.A.W.Our daughter is named Ruby.
Ethel Ruby Keeler (August 25, 1909 – February 28, 1993) was a Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer most famous for her on-screen pairing with Dick Powell in a string of successful early musicals at Warner Brothers, particularly 42nd Street (1933). Dee also has established the Ruby Dee Scholarship in Dramatic Art. She has also been active
My parents have always liked that name and I like having it because it isn't that popular for my generation, so I feel unique.