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Phylicia Rashad
Highest Rated: 95% Creed (2015)
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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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 71% | 92% | The Beekeeper | Unknown (Character) | $66.2M | 2024 |
| 88% | 80% | Our Son | Maya (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 88% | 95% | Creed III | Mary Anne Creed (Character) | $156.2M | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Heaven Down Here | Nancy (Character) | - | 2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Twenty Pearls: The Story of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority | Narrator | - | 2021 |
| 15% | 50% | Tyler Perry's A Fall From Grace | Sarah (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 95% | 88% | Soul | Libba (Voice) | $870.6K | 2020 |
| 90% | 70% | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | Grandmother Journey (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 71% | 65% | Black Box | Lillian (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 83% | 80% | Creed II | Mary Anne Creed (Character) | $115.7M | 2018 |
| 90% | 74% | Tour De Pharmacy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | Outliving Emily | Emily (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 95% | 89% | Creed | Mary Anne Creed (Character) | $109.7M | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Steel Magnolias | Clairee (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 36% | 76% | Tyler Perry's Good Deeds | Wilimina (Character) | $35.0M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Change of Plans | Dorothy (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 21% | 59% | Frankie & Alice | Edna (Character) | $693.2K | 2010 |
| 32% | 73% | For Colored Girls | Gilda (Character) | $37.7M | 2010 |
| 47% | 61% | Just Wright | Ella McKnight (Character) | $21.5M | 2010 |
| 86% | 70% | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger (Character) | - | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | The Old Settler | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man | Cassandra Hawkins (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 72% | 45% | The Visit | Lois Waters (Character) | $186.4K | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Free of Eden | Desiree (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 33% | 47% | Loving Jezebel | Alice Melville (Character) | $69.5K | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Babysitter's Seduction | Detective Kate Jacobs (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Possession of Michael D. | Dr. Marion Hale (Character) | - | 1995 |
| 71% | 87% | Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored | Ma Ponk (Character) | $65.1K | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | David's Mother | Gladys Johnson (Character) | - | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hallelujah | Mayor Turner (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mom Knows Best | Unknown (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jailbirds | Janice Grant (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | False Witness | Lynne Jacobi (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Polly | Aunt Polly (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Eliza (Character) | - | 1987 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 100% | Diarra From Detroit | Vonda (Character) | 2024 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curses! | Georgia Snitker (Voice) | 2023 |
| 97% | 84% | Little America | Margaret Jean the Queen (Character) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Black Box | Self | 2022 |
| 100% | 72% | David Makes Man | Dr. Woods-Trap (Character) | 2019 2021 |
| 84% | 73% | Grey's Anatomy | Nell Timms (Guest Star) | 2021 |
| 94% | 80% | This Is Us | Carol Clarke (Guest Star) | 2019 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rocketeer | May Songbird (Guest Voice) | 2019 |
| 70% | 96% | Jean-Claude Van Johnson | Jane (Character) | 2016-2017 |
| 84% | 48% | Empire | Diana Dubois (Guest Star) | 2016-2017 |
| 82% | 79% | When We Rise | Yvette Flunder (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Sofia the First | Mountain Witch (Guest Voice) | 2014 |
| 89% | 94% | Psych | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 2014 |
| 15% | 60% | Do No Harm | Dr. Vanessa Young (Character) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | The Cleveland Show | Dee Dee Tubbs (Guest Voice) | 2012-2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | African-American Legends | Guest | 2011 |
| 96% | 98% | Everybody Hates Chris | Kathleen Devereaux (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touched by an Angel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1994 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bull | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cosby | Ruth Lucas (Character) | 1996-2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Unknown (Voice) | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In the House | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Cosby Show | Clair Huxtable (Character) | 1984-1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blossom | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 94% | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Jane Goodfellow (Voice) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988-1990 |