Georgia Allen

Georgia Allen was an American actress of stage, television and film. Born in 1919, she settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where she taught in the public schools before taking up acting. For thirty years, until 1979, she acted with the Atlanta University Summer Theater, and she took part in Red, White and Maddox, a satirical musical about Governor Lester Maddox that played a short Broadway run after opening in Atlanta. Her first screen work, in 1972, was Together for Days, and after a five-year gap she returned in Greased Lightning (1977) as Mrs. Jones. Between 1979 and 1982 came four television movies, followed by others from the mid-1980s on, and from 1990 to 1994 she played three separate characters on In the Heat of the Night. Madea's Family Reunion (2006) marked her last known appearance, as Ruby. Her awards included the Bronze Jubilee Award in 1979 and, in 1993, the Ray McIver Award and the Legacy Award.