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BLP sources|date=May 2010Infobox person| image = Jasmine Guy.jpg| name = Jasmine Guy| birth_date = birth date and age|1962|3|10| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts , United States|U.S. | occupation = Actress , singer , dancer | yearsactive = 1982–presentJasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) Intelius People Search is an United States|American actress , singer , and dancer . She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World (TV series)|A Different World .
Biography
Born to an African American father and Portuguese American mother,cite news |title=Jasmine Guy: Flashback Friday - The star of "A Different World" on being Whitley, her impending divorce, and growing up biracial |publisher= Essence (magazine)|Essence |author=Thompson, Kevin D. |year=2008 Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia , where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School (now North Atlanta High School ). Her mother is Jaye Rudolph (1930-), a former high school teacher, and her father, the Reverend William Guy (1928-), was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta , which served as an early home to Spelman College . At the age of 17, she moved to New York City to study dance at the Alvin Ailey|Alvin Ailey American Dance Center .cite news | first = Fred | last = Bernstein | title = After Years of Trying to Fit In, Actress Jasmine Guy at Last Finds Happiness in A Different World | date = 1987-11-09 | url = http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20097541,00.html | work = People Magazine | pages = Vol. 28, No. 19 | accessdate = 2012-01-26
Personal life
Jasmine Guy married Terrence Duckett in August 1998, and the couple had one child, a daughter named Imani, born in 1999. On April 8, 2008, People (magazine)|People reported that the actress and her husband of nearly 10 years were divorcing due to irreconcilable differences. Guy and her daughter live in Atlanta,cite news | first = Curt | last = Holman | title = Speakeasy with Jasmine Guy | date = 2010-01-28 | publisher = CL Inc. | url = http://clatl.com/atlanta/speakeasy-with-jasmine-guy/Content? oid=1286564 | work = Creative Loafing Atlanta | accessdate = 2012-01-26 where she is Executive Director of Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company.
Guy was a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur , whom she met through her A Different World co-star Jada Pinkett Smith . Guy collaborated with Shakur's mother, Afeni Shakur|Afeni , to write a biography of her life as a former Black Panther Party|Black Panther . The book, "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary" was published in 2005 by Simon and Schuster and received critical acclaim for its poignancy.
Guy was also friends with O. J. Simpson , and is still very close friends with Kadeem Hardison and many other former cast mates.Citation needed|date=January 2012
Television roles
Guy began her television career with a non-speaking role, as a dancer, in ten episodes of the 1982 television series Fame (1982 TV series)|Fame under the direction of choreographer Debbie Allen .cite news | first = Jerry | last = Buck | title = Jasmine Guy Brings Life ro 'World' | date = 1988-01-17 | url = http://news.google.com/newspapers? id=pt4qAAAAIBAJ& sjid=IogFAAAAIBAJ& pg=2408,685718& dq=jasmine-guy+broadway& hl=en | work = Tri-City Herald | pages = 39 | accessdate = 2012-01-30 Following a move to California, she had a role in a 1991 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air , playing Kayla, one of Will Smith 's girlfriends.
In 1992, Guy appeared in CBS 's '' Stompin' At The Savoy '' with Vanessa L. Williams|Vanessa Williams and, again, under the direction of Debbie Allen ,cite news | title = Dreams Of Long Ago | date = 1992-04-12 | url = http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-04-12/features/9202020788_1_darnell-williams-peebles-dreams | work = Chicago Tribune | accessdate = 2012-01-26 and in 1993 played the mother of Halle Berry 's character in the CBS TV mini-series '' Alex Haley's Queen '', based upon Alex Haley|Haley's book Queen: The Story of an American Family .
In 1995, Guy appeared as Peter Burns's love interest Caitlin Mills on two episodes of Melrose Place (1992 TV series)|Melrose Place , and in 1996, appeared on Living Single playing a psychologist advising Khadijah who had began exhibiting symptoms of bipolar disorder . She also played the recurring role of Kathleen, a fallen angel in the CBS Network drama Touched by an Angel from 1995 to 1997.
In 2002, Guy lent her voice to the PBS math-based animated series Cyberchase , performing Ava, the queen of the cybersite Symmetria, and made a cameo appearance on the Moesha spin-off The Parkers . In 2003, Ms. Guy read as Mary Estes Peters in the HBO documentary, " Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative ", a documentary which premiered during Black History month. The slave narratives were based on the WPA slave interviews conducted during the 1930s with over two-thousand former slaves.
Guy starred alongside Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin in the series Dead Like Me , created by Bryan Fuller . The show ran 29 episodes over two seasons, in 2003 and 2004, on Showtime (TV network)|Showtime . Guy played Roxy Harvey , a meter maid turned police officer and one of the core group of grim reaper s around which the series was based. Guy was nominated for the 2005 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role. She later starred in the feature-length series sequel Dead Like Me: Life After Death , which was released on video in 2009 before being shown on the Syfy channel.
In 2009, Guy performed in The People Speak (film)|The People Speak , a documentary that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn 's " A People's History of the United States ”. http://www.thepeoplespeak.com/pages/credits/ A broad look at civil rights issues in America, The People Speak was executive produced by and seen on The History Channel .cite news | first = Cristina | last = Kinon | title = 'The People Speak' about democracy on History Channel | date = 2009-07-30 | url = http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-07-30/entertainment/17928469_1_howard-zinn-history-channel-readings | work = Daily News (New York)|Daily News | accessdate = 2012-01-26
In 2010, she was seen in the second season of Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime 's Drop Dead Diva as a judge in the episode titled "Last Year's Model",cite news | first=Gina | last=DiNunno | title=Drop Dead Diva Casts Jasmine Guy and Lauren Stamile | date=May 26, 2010 | url= http://www.tvguide.com/News/Guy-Stamile-Diva-1018970.aspx | work=TVGuide.com and from 2009 until 2011, Guy had a recurring role in The CW Television Network|The CW 's series The Vampire Diaries (TV series)|The Vampire Diaries . Ms. Guy played Sheila "Grams" Bennett, the grandmother of Bonnie ( Katerina Graham ), who turned out to be a descendant of Salem Witches .cite news | first=William | last=Keck | title=Jasmine Guy Vamps It Up | date=September 15, 2009 | url= http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/kecks-exclusives/jasmine-guy-vamps-it-up-2353.html | work=TV Guide Magazine | accessdate=April 13, 2010 Both series are filmed in the Atlanta area.
Almost 20 years after the series' sixth and final season, Ms. Guy today remains best-known for her starring role as southern belle List of A Different World characters|Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World (TV series)|A Different World . A spin-off from The Cosby Show and created by Bill Cosby|Cosby himself, the show aired from 1987 to 1993 on NBC . Guy wrote three episodes of the show and directed one, in addition to appearing in every episode. Guy was nominated for and won six consecutive NAACP Image Award s for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series|Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series , from 1990 to 1995. Ms. Guy has received that award more times than any other actress.
Film roles
Guy's first appearance on the big screen came in 1988 in Spike Lee 's musical-drama film School Daze . Guy played the role of Dina, a member of the light-skinned, straight-haired African American women of Gamma Ray (a women's auxiliary to the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity). Filming on School Daze was completed just prior to her joining the cast of A Different World .
The following year, Guy appeared as Dominique La Rue in Harlem Nights starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor . In the 1989 film, Pryor portrays Harlem "Sugar" Ray, the owner of an illegal casino who contends with the pressures of vicious gangsters and corrupt policemen trying to drive him out of business in 1930s Harlem. Guy's character was the girlfriend of Ray's nemesis, who set out to seduce and kill Murphy.
In 1997, she provided the voice of Sawyer in the Warner Bros. animated film '' Cats Don't Dance . In 2011, Guy appeared in the film, October Baby .
Stage
In 1987, Guy had a starring role in the off-Broadway hit musical Beehive , before traveling to France to appear in a similar musical review. Guy has performed in several Broadway theatre|Broadway productions and national tours, including as Crow in The Wiz , Mickey in Leader of the Pack (musical)|Leader of the Pack , Betty Rizzo in Grease (musical)|Grease , and as Velma Kelly in Chicago (musical)|Chicago .
On April 6, 2009, Playbill reported on Guy's return to the stage, starring in the True Colors Theatre Company production of Pearl Cleage 's Blues for an Alabama Sky . Directed by Andrea Frye, the show was a last minute addition to the company's season and opened May 4 in Atlanta.cite news |first=Adam |last=Hetrick |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Jasmine Guy to Sing Blues for an Alabama Sky at True Colors |date=2009-04-06 | publisher= |url = http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128042.html |work = Playbill |pages = |accessdate = 2009-04-07 |language = Blues came on the heels of Guy's held-over run in True Colors' '' Miss Evers' Boys , which co-starred TC Carson ( Living Single '').cite news |first=Richard |last=Eldridge |coauthors= |authorlink= |title=Peach Buzz: A Sexy, Sudsy ‘Dream’ Assignment | date=2009-03-19 |publisher=Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url = http://www.playbill.com/news/article/128042.html |work = Atlanta Journal-Constitution |pages = |accessdate = 2009-04-07 |language =
Guy directed the world premiere of the musical I Dream (musical)|I Dream in July 2010 on the Alliance Stage of the Woodruff Arts Centre in Atlanta. Also in 2010, Guy was a member of the cast of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Alliance Theatre Company co-production of Pearl Cleage’s The Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One-Hundred Years . The production ran Sept. 24 through Oct. 3 at the Festival in Montgomery, Alabama , before moving to Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre for performances Oct. 20 thru Nov. 14.
In early 2011, Guy directed George C. Wolfe|George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum for True Colors,cite news | first = Holman | last = Curt | title = True Colors Theatre hires Jasmine Guy as full-time staffer | date = 2010-08-16 | publisher = Creative Loafing Inc. | url = http://clatl.com/culturesurfing/archives/2010/08/16/true-colors-theatre-hires-jasmine-guy-as-full-time-staffer | work = Creative Loafing | accessdate = 2012-01-30 and in June 2011, Ms. Guy costarred with Kenny Leon in their production of Sam Shepard 's play Fool for Love (play)|Fool For Love at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in Atlanta, Georgia.citation |title=Creative Loafing Event Calendar | url= http://clatl.com/atlanta/fool-for-love/Event? oid=3327893
In August 2010, Jasmine Guy joined True Colors Theatre Company in an off stage role as the company's Executive Director. In announcing the hire, True Colors said Guy's full time position would be both administrative and artistic, and both local and national. Guy continues to contribute to the company on stage as well.
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During the run of A Different World (TV series)|A Different World , Ms. Guy released her self-titled debut album in 1990. The album peaked at #143 on the US Top 200 Album Chart and spawned three singles: "Try Me" (US R& B #14); " Another Like My Lover " (US #66, US R& B #9); and "Just Want to Hold You" (US #34, US R& B #27), with the last single cracking the main US Top 40 singles chart.
In the spring of 2006, Guy spoke to the graduating class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and revealed that she planned to record a second album. She commented that of all the entertainment industries, she felt the music industry was the worst. She intended to sell her new album online herself and not through a record company.Citation needed|date=January 2012 The actress recorded a public service announcement for Deejay Ra's 'Hip-Hop Literacy' campaign, encouraging listeners to read books about Tupac Shakur .
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