Mary Alice
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Alice at the 45th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, 1993.
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Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1941 Indianola, Mississippi, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–2005 |
Mary Alice (born Mary Alice Smith; December 3, 1941) is an American actress.
Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar (née Jurnakin) and Sam Smith. She had an ability to act and began her career on stage in her hometown.
Alice has appeared in over 50 television shows and feature films during her career. She made her screen debut in 1974 film The Education of Sonny Carson, and later guest-starred in Police Woman and Sanford and Son. She played Ellie Grant Hubbard on soap opera All My Children in the early 1980s, and co-starred in A Different World as Leticia 'Lettie' Bostic from 1988 to 1989.
In 1987 she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her work in Fences. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993 for I'll Fly Away (1991–1993). Alice's other film credits include Malcolm X (1992), The Inkwell (1994) and Down in the Delta with Alfre Woodard.
In 2000, Alice was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Alice replaced Gloria Foster in the film The Matrix Revolutions and video game Enter The Matrix as the Oracle, after Foster died in 2001.
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