Jasmine Guy's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Dead Like Me Roxy Harvey A Different World Whitley Mar… Ladies Man Allegra

Main Movie Roles 2009 - The People Speak 2003 - Tupac: Resurrection 1998 - Madeline 1997 - Cats Don't Dance 1989 - Harlem Nights 1988 - School Daze

BIOGRAPHY:

Remembered mostly as Whitley Gilbert Wayne on the series "A Different World" (1987), Jasmine Guy has a variety of talents. Jasmine was born March 10, 1964, in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1990, Jasmine released a self-titled album with backing vocals on a few songs from her "A Different World" (1987) co-star, 'Cree Summer'. She married Terrence Duckette on August 22, 1998. On March 28, 1999, Jasmine gave birth to a baby girl, Imani. To this day she continues a career in film, theater, and music.


TRIVIA:

• Named daughter Imani after the name was used on _"A Different World" (1987)_ (qv) as the daughter of the Taylors (played by 'Dawnn Lewis' (qv) and 'Glynn Turman' (qv)).
• Enjoyed chart and radio play in the 1990s for her R&B single "Try Me."
• Her sister, 'Monica Guy' (qv), was often her stand-in on the set of _"A Different World" (1987)_ (qv).
• Teaches dance to underprivileged children.
• Was good friends with slain hip-hop MC 'Tupac Shakur' (qv) and remains close friends with his mother, 'Afeni Shakur' (qv).
• Became a member of the 'Alvin Ailey' (qv) American Dance Theater in 1981, at the age of seventeen.
• Wrote a book called "Evolution of a Revolutionary," which is the biography of 'Afeni Shakur' (qv), mother of late actor/hip-hop MC 'Tupac Shakur' (qv).
• Daughter, Imani, born 28 March 1999.