Ja’net DuBois, greatest identified for taking part in the hip, assured and generally nosey neighbor Willona Woods on Norman Lear‘s traditional sitcom Good Times, has died at age 74. TMZ first broke the information.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 5, 1945 and raised on Lengthy Island, DuBois received her begin in theater, showing in numerous performs together with Golden Boy with Sammy Davis. Jr. and Lou Gossett Jr. In 1969, she received a Peabody Award for the CBS youngsters’s film, J.T. By 1970, she’d been forged within the TV cleaning soap opera Love of Life as Loretta Allen, a task that made her the primary African American actress to have a sequence common position on a daytime cleaning soap.
It was her position on Good Instances that made her a TV star; as Willona, she traded barbs with the sequence’ main males, nurtured the Evans youngsters and remained fortunately impartial for many of the sequence. She went on to look in lots of extra exhibits and movies all through her profession, together with visitor spots on Moesha, Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper, Touched By An Angel, and All people Loves Raymond, and roles in movies together with the Wayans‘ blaxploitation parody I am Gonna Git You Sucka and Coronary heart Situation in 1990 with Denzel Washington.
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She won two Emmys for voice over work on The PJs and lent her skills as a singer-songwriter to compose and sing the theme tune, “Movin’ On Up,” for Norman Lear’s different landmark sitcom, The Jeffersons.
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