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Ellen Holly

Actress / Stage Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress | * 01/16/1931 († 92, 12/06/2023) | New York City / NYC (United States of America (USA))
Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 6, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live (1968–1980; 1983–1985). Holly is noted as the first African American to appear on daytime television in a leading role. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Music

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Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend. ...

School Daze

R

1988 | 3.0/5 | 2h 1min
Comedy, Drama, Music
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This pioneering film in the history of African-American cinema, released two years before "A Raisin In The Sun", is the coming-of-age story of a Black high-school student living in a middle-class whit ...

Take a Giant Step

Certification unknown

1959 | 3.0/5 | 1h 40min
Drama
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Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode. ...

Spenser: For Hire

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1985 | 3.3/5 | 1h per episode
Drama, Crime, Mystery
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In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rolli ...

In the Heat of the Night

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1988 | 3.7/5 | 1h per episode
Crime, Drama
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Movies with Ellen Holly as Actress(4)

as Selena Frey2002 10,000 Black Men Named George
as Odrie McPherson1988 School Daze
as Amy1978 Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
as The Girl in the Bar1959 Take a Giant Step

TV Shows/Series with Ellen Holly as Actress(1)

as Regan1971 Great Performances

Full Name: Ellen Holly
Born: Friday, 01/16 1931 (January) in New York City / NYC (United States of America (USA))
Died: Wednesday, 12/06 2023 (December) in New York City (aged: 92)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Ellen Holly frequently works together with these people:
Plácido Domingo (5x, Actor)
Spike Lee (4x, Crew)
Blythe Danner (4x, Actress)
Geraldine Fitzgerald (4x, Actress)
Frederica von Stade (4x, Actress)
Meryl Streep (3x, Actress)
Frank Langella (3x, Actor)
Rue McClanahan (3x, Actress)
Frederick Coffin (3x, Actor)
Renée Fleming (3x, Actress)
Charles Kimbrough (3x, Actor)
John Cullum (3x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1035539, Added: 11/30/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024