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Ruby Dee

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Actress

The Resume

    (October 27, 1922-June 11, 2014)
    Birth name is Ruby Ann Wallace
    Acted in 'No Way Out (1950),' 'The Jackie Robinson Story (1950),' 'A Raisin in the Sun (1961),' 'Peyton Place (1968-1969),' 'Roots: The Next Generations (1979),' 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979),' 'Cat People (1982),' 'Gore Vidal's Lincoln (1988),' 'Do the Right Thing (1989),' 'The Golden Girls (1990),' 'Jungle Fever (1991),' 'Evening Shade (1993),' 'Stephen King's The Stand (1994),' 'A Simple Wish (1997)' and 'Baby Geniuses (1999)'
    Married to Ossie Davis (1948-February 4, 2005)

Why he might be annoying:

    She was typecast as little old ladies.
    She allowed her husband, Ossie Davis, to hog the limelight most of the time.
    She and Davis had a show ('Ossie and Ruby!') that flopped.
    She appeared in 'Baby Geniuses,' considered by some to be one of the worst movies.

Why he might not be annoying:

    She was active in many civil rights causes.
    She protested Senator Joe McCarthy's commie hunting tactics.
    As Leonard Maltin put it, she 'got most of the few really good parts written for black women in the 1950's and 1960's.'
    She was the first black woman to play lead roles at the American Shakespeare Festival.
    She predicted some of the 1964 Oscar winners on a TV talk show.
    She was married to Ossie Davis for over 50 years.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 30 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 18 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 137 Votes: 53.28% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 97 Votes: 52.58% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 48 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 12 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 22 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 108 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 29 Votes: 48.28% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 22 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 60 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 34 Votes: 61.76% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 59 Votes: 38.98% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 65 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 150 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 192 Votes: 46.88% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 623 Votes: 42.38% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 427 Votes: 42.86% Annoying