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Mary Alice
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.
As actor
The Matrix Recalibrated
The Burly Man Chronicles
The Matrix Revolutions
What I Want My Words to Do to You
Sunshine State
The Last Brickmaker in America
The Photographer
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
The Wishing Tree
Down in the Delta
Bed of Roses
Heading Home
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
The Mother
The Vernon Johns Story
The Inkwell
A Perfect World
Life with Mikey
Malcolm X
Awakenings
To Sleep with Anger
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Women of Brewster Place
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
Teachers
Beat Street
The Killing Floor
The Brass Ring
A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
Joshua's World