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Phylicia Rashad

Highest Rated: 95% Soul (2020)

Lowest Rated: 15% Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace (2020)

Birthday: Jun 19, 1948

Birthplace: Houston, Texas, USA

One of the best-loved matriarchs in television history, Phylicia Rashad (known as Phylicia Ayers-Allen prior to her 1985 marriage to NFL star turned sportscaster Ahmad Rashad) made her Broadway debut playing a munchkin in the original 1975 production of "The Wiz." Following this up with a small role in the musical company of the Tony Award-winning smash hit, "Dreamgirls," Rashad segued into television in the early 1980s. Though her first big break came playing Courtney Wright on the daytime soap "One Life to Live" (ABC, 1968- ), it was her breakthrough role as no-nonsense matriarch Clair Huxtable on the landmark sitcom "The Cosby Show" (NBC, 1984-1992) that forever changed her life and added her to the long list of beloved TV moms, a la June Cleaver and Carol Brady. Though that role went on to overshadow the rest of her career, Rashad worked steadily after the end of "The Cosby Show," including a reteaming with Bill Cosby on "Cosby" (CBS 1996-2000).

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Highest-Rated Movies

95% 88% Soul Watchlist 95% 89% Creed Watchlist
91% 69% Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Watchlist 90% 74% Tour De Pharmacy Watchlist 89% 95% Creed III Watchlist
86% 70% A Raisin in the Sun
Watchlist 85% 78% Our Son Watchlist
83% 80% Creed II
Watchlist
72% 45% The Visit
Watchlist 72% 65% Black Box Watchlist
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Phylicia Rashad

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Filmography

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The Beekeeper 71% 92% 2024 Actor Our Son 85% 78% 2023 Maya Actor Creed III 89% 95% 2023 Mary Anne Creed Actor Heaven Down Here 83% 2023 Nancy Actor Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority 2021 Narrator Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace 15% 50% 2020 Sarah Actor Soul 95% 88% 2020 Libba Voice Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey 91% 69% 2020 Grandmother Journey Actor Black Box 72% 65% 2020 Lillian Actor Creed II 83% 80% 2018 Mary Anne Creed Actor Tour De Pharmacy 90% 74% 2017 Actor Outliving Emily 17% 2015 Emily Actor Creed 95% 89% 2015 Mary Anne Creed Actor Steel Magnolias 59% 2012 Clairee Actor Tyler Perry's Good Deeds 37% 76% 2012 Wilimina Actor Change of Plans 48% 2011 Dorothy Actor Frankie & Alice 24% 59% 2010 Edna Actor For Colored Girls 31% 73% 2010 Gilda Actor Just Wright 47% 61% 2010 Ella McKnight Actor A Raisin in the Sun 86% 70% 2008 Lena Younger Actor The Old Settler 93% 2001 Actor Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man 2001 Cassandra Hawkins Actor The Visit 72% 45% 2000 Lois Waters Actor Free of Eden 78% 1999 Desiree Actor Loving Jezebel 33% 47% 1999 Alice Melville Actor
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