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Rosetta LeNoire

Age: 90 (passed away Mar. 17th, 2002)
Height: 5' 2"

Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: Aug. 8th, 1911

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Rosetta LeNoire's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Family Matters	Estelle 'Moth&hellip
A World Apart	Matilda
Studio One	Mary Ellen Ba&hellip

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

She was awarded the American National Medal of the Arts in 1999 for her services to the arts.
Suffered from diabetes for many years.
Suffered from rickets as a child and had to wear leg braces for 13 years.
Husband Egbert Brown, who owned a fleet of cabs, died in 1974.
Was directed by 'Orson Welles' (qv) in a landmark, all-black version of "Macbeth" in the 1930s.
Was a Broadway producer.
Her father was one of the first licensed plumbers in New York State.
Her mother died of pneumonia at age 27 after giving birth to her brother in a Harlem hospital corridor because segregationist policies barred her from using a room.