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Phylicia Rashād was born on 19th June, 1948 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress, stage director as well as a singer. Phylicia was the first African–American female to win the Tony Award. More, among her career highlights we can find two NAACP, Black Reel and The BET Honors Awards. Rashad has spent more than 40 years on the stage as she has been active in the industry since 1972.

Has she managed to accumulate wealth during her long spanned career? It has been estimated that Phylicia Rashad’s net worth is equal to $55 million.

Phylicia Rashad graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in 1970. She has also been awarded honorary Doctor degrees from Brown University and from Spelman College for her lifetime achievements in arts.

The first rays of glory Rashad received were while acting on the Broadway stage. The very first plays which helped her to become known were “Dreamgirls” (1981) and “Munchkin” (1983). She has created many roles on Broadway and off Broadway stages, among which the best role was landed in the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. For the above mentioned role the actress won a Tony Award in 2004. Phylicia was the first black skinned woman to win the Best Actress Award. To add more points to her theatrical work, it must be mentioned that she directed the play “Gem of the Ocean” in 2007.

What is more, Phylicia Rashad debuted on television in an episode of the series “Delvecchio” (1976). Later, she was cast in a main role in the soap opera “One Life to Live” (1983–1984) which was a breakthrough in her career. This was followed by creating an outstanding character in the sitcom “The Cosby Show” (1984–1992); Phylicia Rashad was nominated for an Emmy Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series twice for the role Clair Hanks Huxtable. Another significant role was landed in another sitcom entitled “Cosby” (1996–2000). As an Outstanding Actress in comedy series Rashad won NAACP Image Award and received a nomination for the Satellite Award.

It is worth mentioning that Phylicia starred not only in the series but also in television and feature films. The best roles she created were in the films “The Old Settler” (2001), “A Raisin in the Sun” (2008), “Frankie & Alice” (2010) and “Steel Magnolias” (2012). Currently, she is working on the upcoming sport drama film “Creed”.

Finally, the actress has had a stormy personal life. She has been married three times though all ended with a divorce. Phylicia’s first husband was a dentist William Lancelot Bowles, Jr., whom she married in 1972 and divorced in 1975; they have one child. In 1978, Rashad married the singer Victor Willis, but unfortunately they divorced in 1982. A few years later, she married sportscaster Ahmad Rashād, the third marriage for both although it didn’t save the marriage, as well as the fact that they had a daughter, as they divorced in 2001.

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Phylicia Rashad Important Facts

• She was inducted into the 2016 American Theatre Hall of Fame.
• Doing a Jenny Craig commercial. [2009]
• She was awarded the 2014 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Director (Equity) for “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• In the east coast premiere of August Wilson’s play “Gem of the Ocean” in Boston. Production is moving to Broadway in October 2004. [July 2004]
• Directing “Gem of the Ocean” at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. [April 2007]
• Was presented by: Marla Gibbs, Della Reese, Louis Gossett Jr. and Glynn Turman, of the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles, California. [17 February 2011].
• Phylicia Rashad is sister-in-law of Norman Nixon due to sister Debbie Allen’s marriage to Nixon in 1984.
• Phylicia Rashad also has three stepchildren (from Phylicia’s marriage to Ahmad Rashad): daughter Keva (born: 1970); daughter Maiysha (born: 1974); and son Ahmad Jr. (born: 1978).
• Received an honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.
• Nominated for the 2005 Tony Award as Best Actress (Drama) for “Gem of the Ocean”.
• Phylicia Rashad is the maternal aunt of Norman Nixon Jr. and Vivian Nixon.
• Phylicia Rashad gave birth to daughter Condola, with Ahmad Rashad, three days before the Rashads’ first wedding anniversary, and who was named after her paternal grandmother, Condola Moore.
• Shares a birthday with comic-strip “Garfield,” which made its newspaper premiere on June 19, 1978, which makes Phylica Rashad exactly 30 years older than thew titular feline.
• Phylicia Rashad has two birth children: son William Lancelot “Billy” Bowles III (born: 1973, father: William Lancelot Bowles Jr.); and daughter Condola Rashad (born: December 11, 1986, father: Ahmad Rashad).
• Recorded the Narration for Epcot’s Candlelight Processional Soundtrack, sold all over Walt Disney World during Christmas.
• In 1972, her mother, Vivian, was recognized, for her work “Workshops in Open Fields,” which was hailed and recommended to the nation as a prototype of grass-roots programming by the director of the National Education Association. Vivian founded the Adept New American Museum in Mt. Vernon, New York, a museum that celebrates the art and history of the American Southwest, which features Juneteenth Black cowboys, Native American sand painting, seminars on the Emancipation Proclamation, and Mayan studies. Vivian is known as a leader in the arts community in New York area.
• Phylicia was the first African-American actress to win the Best Actress (Play) Tony Award for her 2004 performance as Lena Younger in a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” (by playwright Lorraine Hansberry). Several Black women have won in the Best Actress (Musical) category, including the late Virginia Capers, who won in 1973 for her portrayal of Lena in the musical adaptation of Hansberry’s play, entitled “Raisin.”.
• Phylicia Rashad won the 2004 Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a play for “A Raisin in the Sun” by tying (split award) with Viola Davis for “Intimate Apparel”.
• Nominated for a 2004 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a play for “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway.
• Phylicia Rashad’s mother, Dr. Vivian Elizabeth Ayers, attended Brainerd Institute, Barber-Scotia College, and Bennett College of North Carolina. In 1952, Vivian was the first poet from the State of Texas to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Vivian has often been called the “Poet Laureate of Texas.” In the late 1950s, Vivian’s poetry, “Hawk,” attracted the attention of NASA, and for about twenty years thereafter was the only poetry celebrated by NASA. Vivian worked as an apprentice librarian at Rice University’s Fondren Library and Vivian was accorded full faculty status in 1965, becoming the first African American to be recognized as a full member of faculty. During Vivian’s years at Rice, she organized and published The Adept Quarterly, an important contribution to the small publications movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Phylicia Rashad’s The Cosby Show (1984) matriarch character, Claire Huxtable, was voted “TV mom closest to your own mom in spirit” by the survey participants in an April 2004 poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation.
• Is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.
• Phylicia appears in the video introduction for the “Dinosaur” ride at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom theme park.
• Ahmad Rashad proposed to her on national TV during the halftime show of NBC’s Thanksgiving Day broadcast of the game between the Detroit Lions and the New York Jets. Earlier in the day, she had worked NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day telecast. Within minutes of hearing Ahmad’s request, she came on NBC’s “NFL Live” halftime set and accepted his proposal live on TV. O.J. Simpson was best-man at her 1985 wedding to Ahmad Rashad and Bill Cosby walked her down the aisle.
• Formerly sat on the Board of Directors of the Alliance Theatre Company (Atlanta, GA), the largest regional theater in the Southeastern United States.
• Phylicia’s second ex-husband, Victor Willis, was the lead singer of The Village People. They divorced in 1982.
• Phylicia Rashad and her sister, Debbie Allen, both speak Spanish fluently because they lived in Mexico during part of their childhood, where the family moved in an attempt to escape pervasive racism that was prevalent in 1950s America.
• Phylicia’s father and her first husband were both dentists.
• Phylicia Rashad (birth name: Phylicia Ayers-Allen) is daughter of Arthur Allen, a dentist; and Vivian Ayers, an artist, poet, playwright, and publisher who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Phylicia’s siblings are older brother Tex (birthname: Andrew Arthur Allen Jr.; born 1945), a jazz musician; younger sister Debbie Allen (born 1950), an actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, director, and producer; and younger brother Hugh Allen, a real estate banker in North Carolina.

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