Dorothi Fox

Dorothi Fox was an American actress whose career took in stage work, television and film. Born in New York City in 1930 and raised in Harlem, she joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1966, first as its head usher, and her Broadway debut came in James Prideaux's The Last of Mrs. Lincoln. She worked widely with Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theatre. In the 1970s she moved into film, in blaxploitation pictures including The Wiz (1978) and Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972), in the comedy Bananas (1971) as J. Edgar Hoover passing as a black woman, and in Three Days of the Condor (1975), a political thriller. In the 2000s she became known as Nancy Fichandler, a quick-witted political commentator, on the Onion News Network, and she also had television roles on Orange Is the New Black and Random Acts of Flyness. In 2019 she acted again with the Negro Ensemble Company, playing Lillie Mae in Karimah's Imminently Yours.