Anna Deavere Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Anna Deavere Smith
Occupation	Stage Actress
Date Of Birth	Sep 18, 1950(1950-09-18)
Age	74
Birthplace	Baltimore
Country	United States
Birth City	Maryland
Horoscope	Virgo

Anna Deavere Smith Biography

Anna Deavere Smith is one of the most popular and richest Stage Actress who was born on September 18, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Playwright and actress from Maryland who was a regularly for The West Wing and Nurse Jackie. The one-woman play she wrote, Fires in the Mirror was nominated to win The 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

She was in an She appeared in a Joseph Papp-produced Off-Broadway production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.-produced Off-Broadway production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor Dr. Nancy McNally in The West Wing (2000–06), hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime series Nurse Jackie (2009–15), and as U.S. District Court Clerk Tina Krissman on the ABC show For the People (2018–19).

Smith studied acting at Beaver College (now Arcadia University), where she was one of seven African-American women in her class, graduating in 1971. During her college career, she started to identify as black. She went to the West Coast for graduate work, receiving an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, California.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland to Anna Young Smith and Deavere Smith.

Anna Deavere Smith Net Worth

Anna Deavere Smith is one of the richest Stage Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Anna Deavere Smith 's net worth $4 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After having graduated of Arcadia University, she attended the American Conservatory Theater’s Master of Fine Arts program. She instructed classes at Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and New York University.

She was featured on screen in The American President, Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia, and many other critically acclaimed films.

Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith, Jr., a coffee merchant. She has four younger siblings. She started attending school shortly after the city had started integrating the public schools, and attended both majority-black and majority-white schools during her lower years. Smith is an alumna of the historic Western High School, an all-girls school.

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Smith was one of the 1996 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the “genius grant.” She also won a 2006 Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for her contribution to civil rights issues, as well as a 2008 Matrix Award from the New York Women in Communications, Inc. In 2009, she won a Fellow Award in Theater Arts from United States Artists.

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Anna Ranked on the list of most popular Stage Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Anna Deavere Smith celebrates birthday on September 18 of every year.

She had recurring roles in the TV series The Practice (2000) and as Dr. Nancy McNally on The West Wing (2000–06). Smith also appeared as hospital administrator Gloria Akalitus in the Showtime dark comedy series Nurse Jackie, which premiered in June 2009. Early in her television career, she appeared on the long-running soap opera All My Children in the recurring role of “Hazel the shampoo girl”.

What ethnicity is Anna Deavere Smith?

Early life. Smith was born in 1950 into an African-American family in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Anna Rosalind (née Young), an elementary school principal, and Deaver Young Smith Jr., a coffee merchant. She has four younger siblings.

What is Anna Deavere Smith known for?

Widely known for her television and movie roles in The West Wing, Nurse Jackie, and The American President , Smith has been most influential in pioneering the techniques of what is now popularly known worldwide as “verbatim theater” – the performance of testimony from interviews with real people –to explore issues of …

What is Anna Deavere Smith doing now?

Smith currently appears on the hit television show “Black-ish.” Previously she appeared in “For the People,” “Nurse Jackie” and “The West Wing”. Films include The American President, Philadelphia and Rachel Getting Married. She is a University Professor at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Where did Anna Deavere Smith go to college?

Education

Who plays Rainbow's mom on blackish?

Andre Johnson, Jr. Alicia is portrayed by Anna Devere Smith in Black-ish and Tika Sumpter in Mixed-ish.