Donzaleigh Abernathy
Biography
Donzaleigh Abernathy is an American actress and author who grew up in Atlanta after being born in Montgomery, Alabama. She studied at Emerson College in Boston, then moved to New York, where she worked on an Off Off Broadway production and later appeared with the Alliance Theater in For Colored Girls and Antony and Cleopatra. Her screen work includes a role as Mrs. Don King in the HBO drama Don King, Only in America, and she was a series regular for four years on the Lifetime show Any Day Now. In the Civil War drama Gods and Generals (2003) she played Martha, a performance praised by critic Roger Ebert. She contributed to the Smithsonian essay collection In the Spirit of Martin and wrote Partners to History, which the American Library Association nominated as a Best Book for Young Adults.
69years old
Turns 70 on August 5in 296 days
- Born Montgomery
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 26 years1990 to 2016
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First role
Abernathy got her first job by auditioning for a role in an Off Off Broadway production, then worked with Eugene Lee, the production designer, and Franne Lee, the costume designer, both of Saturday Night Live.
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Ron MaxwellDirector, 1 film, 2003
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J.D. DillardDirector, 1 film, 2016
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