Jasmine Guy
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Jasmine Guy is an American
actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.
father (1928-) and a Portuguese American
mother (1930-), Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights
neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School (which merged with North Fulton High School
to form North Atlanta High School
). Her mother's name is Jaye Rudolph, and her father, the Reverend William Guy, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Spelman College
She later studied dance at Alvin Ailey American Dance Center
in New York City in 1981.
During the run of A Different World, she released her self-titled debut album in 1990. The album peaked at #143 on the US Top 200 Album Chart and spawned three singles: "Try Me" (US R&B #14); "Another Like My Lover" (US #66, US R&B #9); and "Just Want to Hold You" (US #34, US R&B #27), with the last single cracking the main US Top 40 singles chart. In the spring of 2006, Guy spoke to the graduating class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and revealed that she planned to record a second album. She commented that of all the entertainment industries, she felt the music industry was the worst. She intended to sell her new album online herself and not through a record company.
reported that the actress and her husband of nearly 10 years were divorcing due to irreconcilable differences.
Jasmine Guy was also a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur
, whom she met through her costar on A Different World, Jada Pinkett Smith
. Guy collaborated with Shakur's mother, Afeni
, to write a biography of her life as a former Black Panther
. The book, "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary," was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster and received critical acclaim for its poignancy.
Jasmine was also friends with O. J. Simpson
. She still is very close friends with Kadeem Hardison
and many other former cast mates.
Guy's maternal grandmother (a native of Portugal
) died on July 6, 2002 at the age of 100.
. She later had a role in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
where she played Kayla, one of Will Smith
's girlfriends. In an appearance on Living Single
, Guy played a psychologist who advised Khadijah when she began exhibiting symptoms of bipolar disorder
. Guy appeared as Caitlin Mills on three episodes of Melrose Place, as Peter Burns' love interest. She also made a cameo appearances on the Moesha
spin-off The Parkers
, and the That's So Raven
episode "Checkin' Out" as a famous fashion photographer named Pistache. In 1992, she played the mother of Halle Berry in the TV adaptation of Queen: The Story of an American Family, based on the book by Alex Haley.
Guy had a starring role in Dead Like Me
, a Showtime series which ran from (2003–2004). She played Roxy Harvey in 23 episodes, and starred in the feature film Dead Like Me: Life After Death, which was released in 2009. In the PBS math-based cartoon Cyberchase
, Guy has lent her voice to two characters: Ava, the queen of the cybersite Symmetria, and the recurring Ms. Fileshare the Cybrarian, owner of the Cybrary, or library. She also had the recurring role of Kathleen, a fallen angel in the CBS Network Drama Touched by an Angel
.
Guy recently appeared in The CW
series The Vampire Diaries
as Sheila "Grams" Bennett, the grandmother of Bonnie (Katerina Graham
), who turned out to be a descendant of Salem Witches.
She also appeared on the TV show "Linc's
".
Guy guest starred in the second season of Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva
as a judge in Episode 9 "Last Year's Model."
She is best known for her portrayal of southern belle Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World from 1987 to 1993.
starring Eddie Murphy
and Richard Pryor
. In the film, Pryor's character, Harlem "Sugar" Ray, is the owner of an illegal casino, who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business in 1930s Harlem. Guy played the girlfriend of the group's nemesis, who set out to seduce and kill Murphy. Jasmine also had a role in the 1988 Spike Lee
musical-drama film School Daze
as Dina, a member of the light-skinned, straight-haired African American women of Gamma Ray (a women's auxiliary to the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity). Jasmine also provided the voice of Sawyer Cat in the Warner Bros.
animated film Cats Don't Dance
. Jasmine Guy also appeared in Stompin' at the Savoy. Jasmine Guy read as Mary Estes Peters in the 2003 HBO documentary, "Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative", the documentary premiered during Black History month. The slave narratives were based on the WPA slave interviews conducted during the 1930s with over two thousand former slaves.
In 2009, Guy performed in The People Speak
a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn
's "A People's History of the United States
”.
shows, appearing as Crow in The Wiz
, Mickey in Leader of the Pack
, Betty Rizzo in Grease
and as Velma Kelly in Chicago
.
On April 6, 2009, Playbill
reported Guy would star in a True Colors Theatre Company production of Pearl Cleage's
Blues for an Alabama Sky. Directed by Andrea Frye, the show is a last minute addition to the company's season and is set to open May 4 in Atlanta. A surprise announcement, it comes on the heels of Guy's held-over run in True Colors' Miss Evers' Boys
, which also starred TC Carson (Living Single
).
Guy Directed the World Premiere of the musical I Dream
performed, in July 2010, on the Alliance Stage of the Woodruff Arts Centre in Atlanta.
In 2010, Guy was apart of the cast of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival
and Alliance Theatre’s co-production of Pearl Cleage’s “The Nacirema
Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One-Hundred Years.”
The play ran Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 at ASF and then moved to Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre for performances on Oct. 20 thru Nov. 14.
In May and June of 2011, she costarred with Kenny Leon
in the play Fool For Love which played at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in Atlanta, Georgia.
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.
Biography
Born to an African AmericanAfrican American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
father (1928-) and a Portuguese American
Portuguese American
Portuguese Americans are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira....
mother (1930-), Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights
Collier Heights
Collier Heights, commonly referred to as "The Historic Collier", is a neighborhood in the City of Atlanta, Georgia, nestled in the southwest corner of Atlanta. Collier Heights is bordered to the west by Fairburn Road, the east by Hamilton E. Holmes Drive, the north by Donald L. Hollowell Highway,...
neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School (which merged with North Fulton High School
North Fulton High School
Johns Creek High School is a public secondary school in Johns Creek, Georgia, United States,serving grades 9-12. The school is a part of the Fulton County School System. The school, a state-of-the-art facility, was established in the fall of 2009 and has an enrollment around 1,840. The school's...
to form North Atlanta High School
North Atlanta High School
North Atlanta High School is a high school of approximately 1,100 students in Buckhead, an upscale area of Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The school is a part of Atlanta Public Schools....
). Her mother's name is Jaye Rudolph, and her father, the Reverend William Guy, was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Spelman College
Spelman College
Spelman College is a four-year liberal arts women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman was the first historically black female...
She later studied dance at Alvin Ailey American Dance Center
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York. Ailey is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance...
in New York City in 1981.
During the run of A Different World, she released her self-titled debut album in 1990. The album peaked at #143 on the US Top 200 Album Chart and spawned three singles: "Try Me" (US R&B #14); "Another Like My Lover" (US #66, US R&B #9); and "Just Want to Hold You" (US #34, US R&B #27), with the last single cracking the main US Top 40 singles chart. In the spring of 2006, Guy spoke to the graduating class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States...
and revealed that she planned to record a second album. She commented that of all the entertainment industries, she felt the music industry was the worst. She intended to sell her new album online herself and not through a record company.
Personal life
She married Terrence Duckett in 1998. The couple has one child, a girl named Imani, born in 1999. On April 8, 2008, PeoplePeople (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
reported that the actress and her husband of nearly 10 years were divorcing due to irreconcilable differences.
Jasmine Guy was also a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
, whom she met through her costar on A Different World, Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Pinkett Smith
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, producer, director, author, singer-songwriter, and businesswoman. She began her career in 1990, when she made a guest appearance in the short-lived sitcom True Colors. She starred in A Different World, produced by Bill Cosby, and she featured...
. Guy collaborated with Shakur's mother, Afeni
Afeni Shakur
Afeni Shakur Davis is an African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, former political activist and ex-Black Panther. She is the mother of the late Tupac Shakur...
, to write a biography of her life as a former Black Panther
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party wasan African-American revolutionary leftist organization. It was active in the United States from 1966 until 1982....
. The book, "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary," was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster and received critical acclaim for its poignancy.
Jasmine was also friends with O. J. Simpson
O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson , nicknamed "The Juice", is a retired American collegiate and professional football player, football broadcaster, and actor...
. She still is very close friends with Kadeem Hardison
Kadeem Hardison
Kadeem Hardison is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dwayne Wayne on A Different World, a spin-off of the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.-Childhood:...
and many other former cast mates.
Guy's maternal grandmother (a native of Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
) died on July 6, 2002 at the age of 100.
Television roles
Guy began her television career playing as an extra in the 1982 series adaptation of FameFame (1982 TV series)
Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although...
. She later had a role in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
where she played Kayla, one of Will Smith
Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. , also known by his stage name The Fresh Prince, is an American actor, producer, and rapper. He has enjoyed success in television, film and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood...
's girlfriends. In an appearance on Living Single
Living Single
Living Single is an American television sitcom which aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 29, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.Throughout its run, Living...
, Guy played a psychologist who advised Khadijah when she began exhibiting symptoms of bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder or bipolar affective disorder, historically known as manic–depressive disorder, is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or...
. Guy appeared as Caitlin Mills on three episodes of Melrose Place, as Peter Burns' love interest. She also made a cameo appearances on the Moesha
Moesha
Moesha is an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996 to May 14, 2001. The series stars R&B singer Brandy Norwood as Moesha Mitchell, a high school student living with her family in the Leimert Park neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles.-Overview:The show...
spin-off The Parkers
The Parkers
The Parkers is an American sitcom . A spin-off of UPN's Moesha, The Parkers featured the mother-daughter team of Nikki and Kim Parker . The Parkers' signature "Heeyyy" greeting made its way into popular vernacular in the early 2000s.-Premise:The series centered around a mother and daughter who...
, and the That's So Raven
That's So Raven
That's So Raven is an American cable television teen sitcom/fantasy series. The show premiered on the Disney Channel on January 17, 2003, and ended on November 10, 2007. The show spawned Disney Channel's first spin-off series: Cory in the House...
episode "Checkin' Out" as a famous fashion photographer named Pistache. In 1992, she played the mother of Halle Berry in the TV adaptation of Queen: The Story of an American Family, based on the book by Alex Haley.
Guy had a starring role in Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me
Dead Like Me was an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons...
, a Showtime series which ran from (2003–2004). She played Roxy Harvey in 23 episodes, and starred in the feature film Dead Like Me: Life After Death, which was released in 2009. In the PBS math-based cartoon Cyberchase
Cyberchase
Cyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana...
, Guy has lent her voice to two characters: Ava, the queen of the cybersite Symmetria, and the recurring Ms. Fileshare the Cybrarian, owner of the Cybrary, or library. She also had the recurring role of Kathleen, a fallen angel in the CBS Network Drama Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...
.
Guy recently appeared in The CW
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
series The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries (TV series)
The Vampire Diaries is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith. The series premiered on The CW Television Network on September 10, 2009, and is currently in its third season that...
as Sheila "Grams" Bennett, the grandmother of Bonnie (Katerina Graham
Katerina Graham
Katerina Alexandre "Kat" Graham is an American actress, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and model. She has appeared in numerous television shows and film productions, as well as music videos...
), who turned out to be a descendant of Salem Witches.
She also appeared on the TV show "Linc's
Linc's
Linc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled....
".
Guy guest starred in the second season of Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva
Drop Dead Diva is an American legal comedy-drama/fantasy television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television...
as a judge in Episode 9 "Last Year's Model."
She is best known for her portrayal of southern belle Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World from 1987 to 1993.
Film roles
Early in the run of the TV series that made her famous, Guy appeared as Dominique La Rue in 1989's Harlem NightsHarlem Nights
Harlem Nights is a 1989 comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese and Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy...
starring Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician....
and Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, writer and MC. Pryor was known for uncompromising examinations of racism and topical contemporary issues, which employed colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets...
. In the film, Pryor's character, Harlem "Sugar" Ray, is the owner of an illegal casino, who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business in 1930s Harlem. Guy played the girlfriend of the group's nemesis, who set out to seduce and kill Murphy. Jasmine also had a role in the 1988 Spike Lee
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
musical-drama film School Daze
School Daze
School Daze is a 1988 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin...
as Dina, a member of the light-skinned, straight-haired African American women of Gamma Ray (a women's auxiliary to the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity). Jasmine also provided the voice of Sawyer Cat in the Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
animated film Cats Don't Dance
Cats Don't Dance
Cats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical comedy film, notable as the only fully animated feature produced by Turner Entertainment's feature animation unit . The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment...
. Jasmine Guy also appeared in Stompin' at the Savoy. Jasmine Guy read as Mary Estes Peters in the 2003 HBO documentary, "Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative", the documentary premiered during Black History month. The slave narratives were based on the WPA slave interviews conducted during the 1930s with over two thousand former slaves.
In 2009, Guy performed in The People Speak
The People Speak (film)
The People Speak is a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans. The film gives voice to those who, by insisting on equality and justice, spoke up for social change throughout U.S...
a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
's "A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
Chapter 7, "As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs" discusses 19th century conflicts between the U.S. government and Native Americans and Indian removal, especially during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren....
”.
Stage
Guy has performed in several BroadwayBroadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
shows, appearing as Crow in The Wiz
The Wiz
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of African American culture. It opened on October 21, 1974 at the Morris A...
, Mickey in Leader of the Pack
Leader of the Pack (musical)
Leader of the Pack is a musical with liner notes by Anne Beatts and additional material by Jack Heifner, music by Ellie Greenwich, and lyrics by Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Phil Spector, George "Shadow" Morton, Jeff Kent, and Ellen Foley.-Background:...
, Betty Rizzo in Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
and as Velma Kelly in Chicago
Chicago (musical)
Chicago is a musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago. The music is by John Kander with lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal"...
.
On April 6, 2009, Playbill
Playbill
Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most Playbills are printed for particular shows to be distributed at the door...
reported Guy would star in a True Colors Theatre Company production of Pearl Cleage's
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah’s Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an...
Blues for an Alabama Sky. Directed by Andrea Frye, the show is a last minute addition to the company's season and is set to open May 4 in Atlanta. A surprise announcement, it comes on the heels of Guy's held-over run in True Colors' Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment. It was directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted from the 1992 stage play written by David Feldshuh...
, which also starred TC Carson (Living Single
Living Single
Living Single is an American television sitcom which aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 29, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.Throughout its run, Living...
).
Guy Directed the World Premiere of the musical I Dream
I Dream (musical)
I Dream is a fully through-composed musical by Douglas Tappin based on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. I Dream is produced by Dej Mahoney, Cedric Perrier and Tim Bowen, with additional music and lyrics by Cedric Perrier...
performed, in July 2010, on the Alliance Stage of the Woodruff Arts Centre in Atlanta.
In 2010, Guy was apart of the cast of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is the seventh largest Shakespeare festival in the world. Each year, it attracts more than 300,000 visitors from throughout the United States and more than 60 countries, to its home in Montgomery, Alabama....
and Alliance Theatre’s co-production of Pearl Cleage’s “The Nacirema
Nacirema
Various anthropologists and sociologists have used the term Nacirema to examine aspects of the behavior and society of American people—citizens of the United States of America...
Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One-Hundred Years.”
The play ran Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 at ASF and then moved to Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre for performances on Oct. 20 thru Nov. 14.
In May and June of 2011, she costarred with Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon is an African-American director notable for his work on Broadway and in regional theater. His success on Broadway has made him one of its foremost African-American directors....
in the play Fool For Love which played at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in Atlanta, Georgia.
Radio
The actress recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging reading of books about Tupac ShakurTupac Shakur
Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
.
Filmography
- 2011 October Baby Mary
- 2010 Kasha and the Zulu King (TV movie) (voice) (post-production) Ngazi (voice)
- 2010 Drop Dead DivaDrop Dead DivaDrop Dead Diva is an American legal comedy-drama/fantasy television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. The hour-long series, which was created by Josh Berman, is produced by Sony Pictures Television...
(TV series) Judge Nona Daniels - 2010 The Vampire DiariesThe Vampire DiariesThe Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
(TV series) Sheila Bennett (2009–2010, 2011) - 2009 My Parents, My Sister & Me (TV series) Keela Goldman
- 2009 Dead Like Me: Life After Death (video) Roxy Harvey
- 2008 Tru LovedTru LovedTru Loved is a 2008 independent feature film written and directed by Stewart Wade.-Plot:Sixteen-year-old Tru has been raised in San Francisco by two lesbian mothers and two gay fathers...
Cynthia - 2006 That's So RavenThat's So RavenThat's So Raven is an American cable television teen sitcom/fantasy series. The show premiered on the Disney Channel on January 17, 2003, and ended on November 10, 2007. The show spawned Disney Channel's first spin-off series: Cory in the House...
(TV series) Pistáche - 2006 Ways of the FleshThe Heart SpecialistThe Heart Specialist is a romantic comedy film starring Wood Harris, Zoe Saldana, Brian J. White, and Mýa. Originally released under the title Ways of the Flesh, the film premiered at the 2006 Boston Film Festival...
(Film) - 2003 Dead Like MeDead Like MeDead Like Me was an American-Canadian comedy-drama television series starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers who reside and work in Seattle, Washington. Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, the show was created by Bryan Fuller for the Showtime network, where it ran for two seasons...
(TV series) Roxy Harvey (2003–2004) - 2002 The ParkersThe ParkersThe Parkers is an American sitcom . A spin-off of UPN's Moesha, The Parkers featured the mother-daughter team of Nikki and Kim Parker . The Parkers' signature "Heeyyy" greeting made its way into popular vernacular in the early 2000s.-Premise:The series centered around a mother and daughter who...
(TV series) Delilah - 2002 CarrieCarrieCarrie may refer to:* Carrie , a given name and those with it* Carrie , a novel by Stephen King** Carrie , a 1976 film adaptation*** Carrie , a 2002 remake** Carrie , a musical adaptation...
(TV movie) ( - uncredited) Ruby Moore (uncredited) - 2002 CyberchaseCyberchaseCyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana...
(TV series) Ava, Queen of Symmetria & Ms. Fileshare (voice) - 2001 Feast of All Saints (TV movie) Juliet Mercier
- 2001 Dying on the Edge Nikki
- 2000 Diamond MenDiamond MenDiamond Men is a 2000 film, a crime drama starring Robert Forster and Donnie Wahlberg. The independent film was written and directed by Dan Cohen, and was screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2000...
Tina - 2000 The Law of EnclosuresThe Law of EnclosuresThe Law of Enclosures is a 1996 novel by Dale Peck, which was adapted into the 1999 film The Law of Enclosures by Canadian director John Greyson....
- 2000 Linc'sLinc'sLinc's is an American comedy-drama based in a bar in Washington D.C.. The series starred Steven Williams, Pam Grier and Golden Brooks, and aired on Showtime for two seasons from 1998 to 2000 before being cancelled....
(TV series) Courtney Goode - 2000 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every ChildHappily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American animated television series that premiered March 26, 1995, on HBO. Narrated by Robert Guillaume, the series aired 39 episodes from 1995 to 2000, and is currently airing on the HBO Family digital cable television channel in the United...
(TV series) Frog Princess Lylah - 1999 Ladies Man (TV series) Allegra
- 1999 Any Day Now (TV series)
- 1999 PartnersPartners (TV series)Partners is an American sitcom that aired on FOX from 1995 to 1996.-Synopsis:The series centered a pair of young architects, Bob and Owen , and Owen's fiancée Alicia . Much of the show's humor derived from Bob's lack of success with women and his competition with Alicia for Owen's attention...
(TV series) Amanda - 1999 LillieLillieLillie is a British television serial made by London Weekend Television for ITV and broadcast in 1978.This period serial starred Francesca Annis in the title role of Lillie Langtry...
Sylvia - 1999 GuinevereGuinevereGuinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. In tales and folklore, she was said to have had a love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot...
Linda - 1998 MadelineMadelineMadeline is a children's book series written by Ludwig Bemelmans, an Austrian author. The books have been adapted into numerous formats, spawning telefilms, television series and a live action feature film...
- 1997 Malcolm & EddieMalcolm & EddieMalcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. This show was canceled after its fourth season, and aired its final episode on May 22, 2000...
(TV series) Paige - 1997 Perfect CrimePerfect crimePerfect crime is a colloquial term used in law and fiction to characterize crimes that are undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or else unsolved as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator....
(TV movie) Capt. Darnell Russell - 1997 Cats Don't DanceCats Don't DanceCats Don't Dance is a 1997 animated musical comedy film, notable as the only fully animated feature produced by Turner Entertainment's feature animation unit . The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Family Entertainment...
(voice) Sawyer - 1995 Touched by an AngelTouched by an AngelTouched by an Angel is an American drama series that premiered on CBS on September 21, 1994 and ran for 211 episodes and nine seasons until its conclusion on April 27, 2003. Created by John Masius and produced by Martha Williamson, the series stars Roma Downey, as an angel named Monica, and Della...
(TV series) Kathleen (1995–1997) - 1996 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanLois & Clark: The New Adventures of SupermanLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action American television series based on the Superman comic books...
(TV series) Angela Winters - 1996 The Outer LimitsThe Outer Limits (1995 TV series)The Outer Limits is an American television series that originally aired on Showtime,the Sci Fi Channel and in syndication between 1995 and 2002...
(TV series) Captain Teri Washington - 1996 America's Dream (TV movie) Elna Du Vaul (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
- 1996 Living SingleLiving SingleLiving Single is an American television sitcom which aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 29, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.Throughout its run, Living...
(TV series) Dr. Jessica Bryce - 1995 NYPD BlueNYPD BlueNYPD Blue is an American television police drama set in New York City, exploring the internal and external struggles of the fictional 15th precinct of Manhattan...
(TV series) LaVonna Runnels - 1995 Melrose Place (TV series) Caitlin Mills
- 1995 Going, Going, Almost Gone! Animals in Danger (TV movie) (voice)
- 1995 Klash Blossom
- 1993 Queen (TV mini-series) Easter
- 1993 Boy Meets Girl (TV movie) Lena
- 1992 Stompin' at the SavoyStompin' at the Savoy"Stompin' at the Savoy" is a 1934 jazz standard composed by Edgar Sampson. It is named after the Savoy Ballroom.Although the song is credited to Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, and Edgar Sampson, and the lyrics by Andy Razaf, in reality the music was written and arranged for Chick Webb's band by...
(TV movie) Alice - 1991 The Fresh Prince of Bel-AirThe Fresh Prince of Bel-AirThe Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990 to May 20, 1996. The show stars Will Smith as a fictionalized version of himself, a street-smart teenager from West Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their...
(TV series) Kayla Samuels - 1990 A Killer Among UsA Killer Among UsA Killer Among Us is a 1990 Drama/Thriller TV film directed by Peter Levin and starring Jasmine Guy and Anna Maria Horsford.-Plot:Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, but cannot convince...
(TV movie) Theresa Hopkins - 1989 Harlem NightsHarlem NightsHarlem Nights is a 1989 comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx, Della Reese and Murphy's brother Charlie Murphy...
Dominique La Rue - 1989 Runaway (TV movie) Charlene 'Charlie'
- 1988 School DazeSchool DazeSchool Daze is a 1988 American musical-drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin...
Dina - 1987 A Different World (TV series) Whitley Marion Gilbert Wayne (136 episodes) (1987–1993)
- 1987 At Mother's Request (TV movie) Bank Teller
- 1986 The EqualizerThe EqualizerThe Equalizer is an American television series that ran for four seasons, initially on CBS, between 1985 and 1989. It starred Edward Woodward as an aging New York vigilante with a mysterious past...
(TV series) Gloria - 1982 FameFame (1982 TV series)Fame is an American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show was based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. Using a mixture of drama and music, it followed the lives of the students and faculty at the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Although...
(TV series) Dancer (10 episodes)
Albums
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Jasmine Guy
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Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. R&B |
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| 1990 | "Try Me" | - | 14 | Jasmine Guy |
| 1991 | "Another Like My Lover Another Like My Lover "Another Like My Lover" is a 1991 R&B song released by Jasmine Guy. The single reached the top ten of the Billboard R&B chart on April 6, 1991.-Charts:... " |
66 | 6 | |
| "Just Want to Hold You" (with James Ingram James Ingram James Ingram is an American soul musician. He is best known as a vocalist. He is also a self-taught musician who plays piano, guitar, bass, drums and keyboards... ) |
34 | 27 | ||
| "Don't Want Money" | - | - | ||
External links
- http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/12/entertainment/la-et-people-speak12-2009dec12