Mary Alice Smith, known professionally as Mary Alice, was an American television, film, and stage actress.
16 Facts About Mary Alice
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Mary Alice performed on the stage, and received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her appearance in the 1987 production of August Wilson's Fences.
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Mary Alice showed an early and natural ability for acting, and began her stage career in her hometown.
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Mary Alice's family moved from Mississippi to Chicago when she was two years old.
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Mary Alice graduated from Chicago Teacher's College, and taught at an elementary school.
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Mary Alice returned to acting in the mid-1960s through community theater and appeared in three Douglass Turner Ward's plays, including Days of Absence and Happy Endings.
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Mary Alice washed the cast's laundry for a salary of $200 a week.
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Mary Alice did some acting in New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s, performing in multiple productions at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in Manhattan's East Village between 1969 and 1973.
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Mary Alice reprised her role as Sister Rat in the October 1969 production, and again in the January 1971 production.
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In 1970, Mary Alice performed in Ed Bullins' Street Sounds, directed by Hugh Gittens.
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Mary Alice later performed in Lamar Alford's Thoughts in December 1972 and January 1973.
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Mary Alice made her screen debut in the 1974 film The Education of Sonny Carson, and later appeared in the television shows Police Woman and Sanford and Son.
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Mary Alice won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993 for I'll Fly Away.
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Mary Alice replaced Gloria Foster as the Oracle in the sequel The Matrix Revolutions and the video game tie-in Enter the Matrix after Foster, who originated the role, died in 2001.
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Mary Alice passed away surviving her husband Paul Young and their only son Zach Kasch.
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Mary Alice died on July 27,2022, at her residence in Manhattan at the age of 85 due to natural causes.