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Clarice Taylor

Highest Rated: 88% Smoke (1995)

Lowest Rated: 22% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)

Birthday: Sep 20, 1917

Birthplace: Buckingham County, Virginia, USA

Born in Virginia and raised in New York City, Clarice Taylor is a veteran African-American actress. In the late 1960s, Taylor helped to found the Negro Ensemble Company, a Manhattan-based organization that would later count many prominent black actors among its ranks. In addition to her many stage roles (most notably Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, in "The Wiz"), Taylor appeared in Clint Eastwood's '71 directorial debut, "Play Misty for Me," and "Five on the Black Hand Side," a '73 comedy based on the play of the same name, a production that she also starred in. While Taylor has worked occasionally in film and television during subsequent decades, guest-starring on shows such as "Sanford and Son" and "Spencer: For Hire," she is best known for her two recurring roles as a grandmother-Harriet on "Sesame Street" and Anna, the mother of Bill Cosby's Cliff Huxtable, on "The Cosby Show."

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Highest rated movies

88% 89% Smoke
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85% 72% Play Misty for Me
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63% 59% Sommersby
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22% 12% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
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33% Such Good Friends
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The Torture of Mothers
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45% Five on the Black Hand Side
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Filmography

Movies

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88% 89% Smoke Grandma Ethel (Character) $8.3M 1995
63% 59% Sommersby Esther (Character) $46.4M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Torture of Mothers Unknown (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet 45% Five on the Black Hand Side Mrs. Brooks (Character) - 1973
No Score Yet 33% Such Good Friends Mrs. McKay (Character) - 1971
85% 72% Play Misty for Me Birdie (Character) - 1971
22% 12% Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon Minnie (Character) - 1970

TV

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No Score Yet 68% The Cosby Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1985-1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nurse Nurse Bailey (Character) 1981-1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sanford and Son Unknown (Guest Star) 1974