Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948) is an American actress, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the 1984-1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
In 2004, Rashad became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaption of A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film), which...
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Phylicia Rashād (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen on June 19, 1948) is an American actress, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the 1984-1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
In 2004, Rashad became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the Sun.
She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaption of A Raisin in the Sun (2008 film), which earned her the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special.
Rashād was born in Houston Texas, to Andrew Arthur Allen, a Louisiana Creole, and Vivian Ayers, an African American. Arthur was a dentist and orthodontist. Vivian was a Pulitzer-prize nominated artist, poet, playwright, and publisher. Rashād's siblings are jazz-musician brother Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen Jr, born 1945), sister Debbie Allen (1950), and brother Hugh Allen (real estate banker in North Carolina). Debbie Allen is an...
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