Virginia Wing

Virginia Wing is an American actress, singer, and writer who has spent more than six decades accumulating over 200 credits across theater, film, and television. Born in Marks, Mississippi, and raised in the segregated Delta, she became the first non-white contestant in the Miss Mississippi pageant while in college, then began a modeling and singing career in the early 1960s. As a Breck Girl she gained national visibility and performed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. After relocating to Los Angeles, she expanded into opera, theater, film, and television and was among the early contributors to the Inner City Cultural Center. Her movie roles include Charley Varrick (1973), directed by Don Siegel, and Good Guys Wear Black (1978) with Chuck Norris. Her stage work brought a Best Actress nomination from the Hollywood NAACP Image Awards, and she later appeared in Three Sisters and an off Broadway Uncle Vanya in 2023.