Tina Andrews

Tina Andrews is an American actress, screenwriter, producer, playwright and author who began in drama studies at New York University after growing up in Chicago. She originated Valerie Grant on Days of Our Lives from 1975 to 1977, a role tied to daytime television's first interracial romance, and later appeared as Angie Wheeler on The Sanford Arms. Her early screen work includes Born Innocent (1974) and Carny (1980), along with guest roles on shows such as Good Times and The Brady Bunch. Andrews acted in the miniseries Roots (1977) as Aurelia. She became a writer, penning the CBS miniseries Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and in 2001 won the Writers Guild of America's Original Long Form prize, becoming the first African American to do so. She also wrote Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) and Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, and won an NAACP Image Award.