Dee, Ruby Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

  2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 1982

  2013, role: actress , character name: Rose Brown
• Play in Full Screen Betty and Coretta

  2013, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

  2012, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen A Thousand Words

  2012, role: actress , character name: Annie McCall
• Play in Full Screen Politics of Love

  2011, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Video Girl

  2011, role: actress , character name: Valerie
• Play in Full Screen Sing Your Song

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Red & Blue Marbles

  2011, role: actress , character name: Professor Wright
• Play in Full Screen Black Girls Rock

  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Drama Mamas!

  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Dream Street

  2010, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots

  2010, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen America

  2009, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Harper
• Play in Full Screen A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School

  2009, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The New Neighbors

  2009, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll

  2009, role: actress , character name: Miss Candy
• Play in Full Screen Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement

  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Meet Mary Pleasant

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The 80th Annual Academy Awards

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself - Nominee: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
• Play in Full Screen 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself - Winner: Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role & Best Motion Picture Cast
• Play in Full Screen 39th NAACP Image Awards

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen An Evening at the Academy Awards

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen La noche de los Oscar

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen All About Us

  2007, role: actress , character name: Ms. Ella
• Play in Full Screen Steam

  2007, role: actress , character name: Doris
• Play in Full Screen Flying Over Purgatory

  2007, role: actress , character name: Inez Hightower
• Play in Full Screen Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema

  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen American Gangster

  2007, role: actress , character name: Mama Lucas
• Play in Full Screen The 2006 Black Movie Awards

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Way Back Home

  2006, role: actress , character name: Maude
• Play in Full Screen An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Lockdown, USA

  2006, role: actress , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Legends Ball

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen No. 2

  2006, role: actress , character name: Nanna Maria
• Play in Full Screen The History Makers

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen The Black Movie Awards

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Unstoppable: Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Their Eyes Were Watching God

  2005, role: actress , character name: Nanny
• Play in Full Screen The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself - Honoree
• Play in Full Screen TV in Black: The First Fifty Years

  2004, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen A Wealth of Wisdom

  2004, role: actress , character name: Herself - Panelist
• Play in Full Screen Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

  2003, role: actress , character name: Reader
• Play in Full Screen Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen 2003 Trumpet Awards

  2003, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Hughes' Dream Harlem

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Broadway Legends

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Baby of the Family

  2002, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen An Evening with Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself - Interviewee

Dee, Ruby Filmography

• Play in Full Screen And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Wild Style

  1983, role: actor , character name: Fantastic Freaks

Famous quotes by Ruby Dee:

"There was so much meanness in the atmosphere, ... but marvelous things pierce through the darkness of poverty and racism. You meet all kinds of people that help put life in perspective and turn the horror into some kind of lesson or avenue of awakening that lives with you all your days."

"It was a nerve-racking moment, ... He stayed up half the night writing it. Then we stayed up because that was all we could do."

"We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are."

"There is so much to do, ... Ossie left a lot of work that we are still trying to finish."

"She knew how we struggled with ourselves,"

"we will give her the kudos that she so richly deserves."

"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question."

"God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear."

"OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head."

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage, dignity."

"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity."

Ruby Dee

Born: 1922-10-27

Died: 2014-06-11