
Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith. She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005. She died of natural causes on July 27, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Upon her death, she was buried with her siblings at Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, in regard for her last wishes.

The Vernon Johns Story

Oz

Good Times

レナードの朝

The Last Brickmaker in America

マルコムX

パーフェクト ワールド

Sanford and Son

Sparkle

The Wishing Tree

I'll Fly Away

LAW&ORDER

Green Acres

The Killing Floor

What I Want My Words to Do to You

Touched by an Angel

L.A. Law

The Brass Ring

Just an Old Sweet Song

A Different World

Soul Food

The Jury

The Burly Man Chronicles

Beat Street

The Matrix Recalibrated

マトリックス レボリューションズ

To Sleep with Anger

The Women of Brewster Place

Providence

Sunshine State

Down in the Delta

Police Woman

Cosby

A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion

Performance

マンハッタン花物語

Great Performances

Teachers

ライフ with マイキー

Laurel Avenue

虚栄のかがり火

The Inkwell

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

The Women of Brewster Place

The Education of Sonny Carson

Kojak

The Photographer

The Mother

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

Lawman Without a Gun

Heading Home

Sty of the Blind Pig

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder