Hattie Winston
Biography
Hattie Winston is an American actress of film, television and Broadway who started her stage career in New York City in 1965 and was among the first members of the Negro Ensemble Company. Born in Lexington, Mississippi, and raised in Greenville, she left the South at 14 and settled in Manhattan. On Broadway she played Nell in The Me Nobody Knows, Sylvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cleo in I Love My Wife, and she won two Obie Awards. From 1973 to 1977 she appeared on the PBS children's series The Electric Company as Valerie the Librarian. She voiced Lucy Carmichael in Rugrats and The Rugrats Movie, and from 1998 to 2004 played nurse Margaret Wybourn on Becker, which brought her a second NAACP Image Award nomination in 2001. Her films include Jackie Brown (1997) and True Crime (1999).
81years old
Turns 82 on March 3in 142 days
- Born Lexington
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Hattie Mae Winston
Movie Career
- Films
- 6
- Career span
- 15 years1988 to 2003
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First role
Winston started her stage career in New York City in 1965. She was one of the Negro Ensemble Company's original members.
A role that slipped away
Winston took over the role of Sylvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona from Jonelle Allen, whose understudy she had been in the production.
Behind the camera
Winston co-wrote the musical Nativity: A Life Story with James Stovall, and it has been performed frequently since it began.
Hattie Winston movies on Netflix
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The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
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Films together
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