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Deborrah Kaye Allen Wiki Biography

Deborrah Kaye Allen was born on 16 January 1950, in Houston, Texas, USA, and is a dancer, choreographer, actress, television producer and director, who probably gained worldwide recognition for her role in television series ‘Fame’ from 1982-87, and the subsequent film released in 2009. She is also on the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

So just how rich is Debbie Allen? Authoritative sources estimate that Debbie Allen’s net worth has reached over $3 million as of mid-2016, accumulated during a career in the entertainment industry now spanning more than 40 years.

Debbie’s mother, Vivian (nee Ayers) was a poet and worked as a director in the art museum, whereas her father, Andrew Arthur Allen Jr., worked as an orthodontist. Debbie graduated with a BA degree in classical Greek literature, speech, and theater from Howard University, and then earned Doctorates from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Howard University.

In 1980, Debbie Allen attracted the attention of critics who nominated Debbie with a Tony Award and gave her a Drama Desk Award for her role in the Broadway musical ‘West Side Story’. Another Tony Award nomination which has also helped increase Debbie Allen’s net worth she received for her role in the musical ‘Sweet Charity’. In 1980, Allen had a support role on the big screen in the film ‘Fame’ directed by Alan Parker, but as the film was developed into the television series, the role of Lydia grew into a leading one. Her net worth was already well established.

Debbie’s net worth rose after she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Choreography in 1982 and 1983 and the Golden Globe Award for the Best Actress in Television Series Musical or Comedy for her role in television series ‘Fame’. In addition to this Allen has added to her net worth appearing in the films ‘Blank Check’ directed by Rupert Wainwright, ‘Ragtime’ directed by Miloš Forman, ‘Next Day Air’ directed by Benny Boom, ‘The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh’ directed by Gilbert Moses and ‘Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling’ directed by Richard Pryor. Moreover, she appeared in television series such as ‘The Cosby Show’ as Emma, ‘Roots: The Next Generations’ as Nan, ‘In The House’ as Jackie Warren, ‘Good Times’ in the role of J.J.’s Junkie Fiancée, ‘Quantum Leap’ in the role of Joanna Chapman, and ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ in the role of Catherine Avery. Her net worth continued to rise, and also as a guest judge in a number of the reality competition shows ‘So You Think You Can Dance’.

Debbie Allen has further increased her net worth as a director of the sitcoms ‘Girlfriends’, ‘Everybody Hates Chris’, ‘All of Us’, ‘That’s So Raven’, ‘The Jamie Foxx Show’, ‘A Different World’, ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’, ‘Family Ties’ and ‘The Parkers’.

Additionally, Allen has directed the films ‘Life Is Not a Fairy Tale’, ‘Polly’, ‘Out-of-Sync’, and other television series ‘The Twilight Zone’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Hellcats’, ‘Army Wives’, ‘The Client List’, ‘Let’s Stay Together’, ‘Scandal’.

Debbie has also worked as a column writer for ‘Movement’ magazine since 2006. Currently she is concentrating more on choreography and teaching dance.

In her personal life, Debbie Allen has married twice, firstly to Win Wilford from 1975 to 1983,  and since 1984, to Norm Nixon.

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Deborrah Kaye Allen Quotes

• [on working with rapper Malicious Jynx (2005)] There is just something about him, he is so talented and so gifted, so flamboyant and so charismatic. He doesn’t deserve the harsh criticism he receives. Anyone who listens to his albums with their hearts and their ears will see his love, and his warmth. He is such a lovely young man and I love him for that. He gets negative publicity but people need to know the real person that’s inside of him.

Deborrah Kaye Allen Important Facts

• $1,000,000
• Has said “Glory” is her favorite film.
• It’s the only person who appears in Fame the movie (1980), Fame (TV series) and Fama (1990).
• She studied drama at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
• Is one of four people (Gene Anthony Ray, Albert Hague and Lee Curreri) to appear in both Fame (1980) and Fame (1982) the TV series.
• Has arthritis in her right shoulder and right ankle.
• Mother of Norman Nixon Jr. (born 1987) and Vivian Nixon (born 1984).
• In 1972, her mom Vivian’s work, “Workshops in Open Fields,” was hailed and recommended to the nation as a “prototype of grass roots programming” by the director of NEA. Vivian established the Adept New American Museum–a museum for art and history of the American Southwest; which features “Juneteenth” Black Cowboys, American Indian Sand Painting, seminars on the Emancipation Proclamation and Mayan studies– in Mt Vernon NY. She is known as a leader in the arts community in New York area.
• Her mother Dr Vivian Elizabeth Ayers attended Brainerd Institute, Barber Scotia College and Bennett College. Vivian was the first poet in the state of Texas to receive the Pulitzer Prize Award nomination in 1952. Vivian was often called the “Poet Laureate of Texas.” In the late 50’s, her poetry, “Hawk,” attracted the attention of NASA and for twenty years was the only poetry celebrated by NASA. She worked as an apprentice librarian at the Fondren Library of Rice University and was accorded faculty status in 1965, becoming the first African American to be so qualified. During her years at Rice, she organized and published The Adept Quarterly, an important contribution to the small publications movement of the time.
• Daughter Vivian Nixon followed in Debbie’s footsteps by playing Debbie’s “Anita” role in a 2006 revival of the musical The Making of ‘West Side Story’ (1985). Debbie returned to her hometown of Houston to see her daughter perform.
• Is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
• Her daughter, Vivian Nixon, is in the lead role of the Broadway musical “Hot Feet”. Vivian was classically trained at Washington D.C.’s Kirov Academy of Ballet and at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
• Ex-sister-in-law of Victor Willis and Ahmad Rashad.
• Authored children’s books entitled, “Brothers of the Knight” and “Dancing in the Wings”.
• Her father passed away ten days after he accompanied her to the Emmy Awards Ceremony in which she won for Best Choreography for Fame (1982).
• Choreographed five Academy Award shows.
• Founder of the Debbie Allen Dance Institute in Culver City, CA in 2000.
• Her most notable role to date, that of “Lydia Grant” on the TV Series Fame (1982), earned her three Emmy Nominations and one Golden Globe.
• Received a Drama Desk Award in 1979.
• Has twice been nominated for Tony Awards: in 1980, as Best Actress (Featured Role -Musical) for a revival of “West Side Story,” and in 1986, as Best Actress (Musical) for playing the title character in a revival of Bob Fosse’s “Sweet Charity.”
• Won the first Lena Horne Award for Career Achievement at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards.
• Won 1992 & 1995 Essence Awards.
• Has an Honorary doctorate from her alma mater Howard University.
• Received an Honorary doctorate from The North Carolina School of the Arts, the same institution that denied her admittance to its dance department when she was sixteen years old; she was told then that she had the wrong type of body for dance.
• Her husband, Norman Nixon, is a former NBA player with the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.
• Daughter of dentist Arthur Allen and Pulitzer-prize nominated Vivan Ayers ( artist, poet, playwright, and publisher). Older siblings are jazz musician Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen Jr, born 1945) and actress Phylicia Ayers-Allen (Phylicia Rashad, born 1948), and brother Hugh Allen (real estate banker in North Carolina).

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