RUBY DEE: My dream was I was going to be an actor ... All those things I knew as a kid, and that one of these days I was going to run away. And my first heroes were Franchot Tone and Robert ...

Ruby Dee was not able to make the 80th gala celebration of the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem on Tuesday night. But the actress, who had played such a pivotal role in supporting the culturally ...

Reports of actress Ruby Dee‘s death have been greatly exaggerated — on Twitter. The 87-year-old stage and screen legend was trending on Twitter Tuesday night for all the wrong reasons.

Born Ruby Ann Wallace in the early 1920s in Cleveland, actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee most identified with the part of New York City where she was raised. "I don't know who I would be ...

When Ruby Dee was in high school, she couldn’t get a part in the drama club’s upcoming production. Nothing personal, the club’s head explained: There were just no roles for maids.

Actress Ruby Dee died Wednesday at her home outside New York. She achieved her breakout role in 1959 opposite Sidney Poitier in the Broadway drama, "A Raisin in the Sun" . . . roles they reprised ...

Film work, however illustrious, was almost an adjunct to the career and legacy of Ruby Dee, who died Wed. at 91 at her New Rochelle, N.Y., home. Dee starred on stage, with Poitier in the original ...

Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91. Dee died peacefully Wednesday at her New Rochelle, New York, home ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Legendary stage and screen actress Ruby Dee, who won acclaim on stage, film and television and became a notable figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, died peacefully at ...

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Ruby Dee, an actress who defied segregation-era stereotypes by landing lead roles in movies and on Broadway while maintaining a second high-profile career as a civil rights advocate, including ...