Mary Alice
Acting
Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith. She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005. She died of natural causes on July 27, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Upon her death, she was buried with her siblings at Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, in regard for her last wishes.
The Burly Man Chronicles
The Matrix Recalibrated
Self
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Self
The Matrix Revolutions
The Oracle
Sunshine State
Eunice Stokes
The Last Brickmaker in America
Dorothy Cobb
The Photographer
Violet
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
Dolores Williams
The Wishing Tree
Mattie
Down in the Delta
Rosa Lynn Sinclair
Bed of Roses
Alice
Heading Home
Mary Jones
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
The Mother
Black Lady
The Inkwell
Evelyn
The Vernon Johns Story
Altona
A Perfect World
Lottie
Life with Mikey
Mrs. Gordon
Malcolm X
School Teacher
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Annie Lamb
Awakenings
Nurse Margaret
To Sleep with Anger
Suzie
The Women of Brewster Place
Fannie Michael
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Blind Lily
Teachers
Linda Ganz
Beat Street
Cora
The Killing Floor
Lilah Dean
The Brass Ring
Mrs. Hauser
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Beck
Joshua's World
Housekeeper
Lawman Without a Gun
Minnie Hayward
Just an Old Sweet Song
Helen Mayfield
Sparkle
Effie
The Education of Sonny Carson
Moms
Sty of the Blind Pig
Alberta Warren