Tracee Ellis Ross
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Ross at the 2014 NAACP Image Awards
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Tracee Joy Silberstein October 29, 1972 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Alma mater | Brown University |
| Occupation | Actress, model, comedian, producer, television host |
| Years active | 1996–present |
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Diana Ross Robert Ellis Silberstein |
| Website | traceeellisross |
Tracee Ellis Ross (born October 29, 1972) is an American actress, model, comedian, producer and television host.
The daughter of singer/actress Diana Ross, Ross began her career acting in independent films, variety series and hosted the pop-culture magazine The Dish on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008, she played the leading role as Joan Clayton on the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends, for which she received two NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in films Hanging Up (2000), I-See-You.Com (2006), and Daddy's Little Girls (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines, for which she received her third NAACP Image Award.
In 2014, Ross began starring as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish. The role brought her two more NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She has received nominations for a Critics' Choice Television Award and Primetime Emmy Award and, in 2017, won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress—Television Series Musical or Comedy.
Born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of Motown singer/actress Diana Ross and music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Actor and musician Evan Ross is her half-brother. Her father is Jewish-American and her mother is African-American. Ross attended Riverdale Country School in the Bronx and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. She was a model in her teens. She attended Brown University, where she appeared in plays, and graduated in 1994 with a theatre degree. She later worked in the fashion industry, as a model and contributing fashion editor to Mirabella and New York magazine.
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