Danitra Vance

Quick Facts

Full Name	Danitra Vance
Occupation	Tv Actress
Date Of Birth	Jul 13, 1954(1954-07-13)
Age	70
Date Of Death	1994-08-21
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Cancer

Danitra Vance Biography

Danitra Vance is one of the most popular and richest TV Actress who was born on July 13, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Actress and comedian who gained fame for her role in Saturday Night Live in it’s 11th season. She passed away from breast cancer in 1994.

She co-starred alongside She co-starred with Al Franken during her run on Saturday Night Live. in her time in Saturday Night Live.

Raised in the South Side, Chicago, Vance grew up with her mother, younger sister, and maternal grandparents in a household where telling stories was the main form of entertainment, and graduated from nearby Thornton Township High School in 1972. In high school she was active in theater and was a member of the debate team. She later attended National College of Education before transferring to Roosevelt University in 1975, where she studied playwriting and acting, and graduated with honors. She then moved to London to study at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where she was classically trained in Shakespeare and earned a MFA.

Vance started her career performing with The Second City improv group before moving to New York City in 1981 with goals of performing only to face direct discrimination and return to the midwest to teach high school in Gary, Indiana, where her students helped inspire characters in her next show. She initially performed the characters in Old Town, Chicago.

Her long-time love had been Mary Jones Miller.

Danitra Vance Net Worth

Danitra Vance is one of the richest Tv Actress from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Danitra Vance 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She graduated with distinction with distinction from Roosevelt University and later studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Her name was first African American woman, as being the first lesbian who was an actor in Saturday Night Live.

Danitra Vance (July 13, 1954 – August 21, 1994) was an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live (SNL) during its eleventh season and for work in feature films like Sticky Fingers (1988), Limit Up (1990) and Jumpin’ at the Boneyard (1992). She performed for The Second City, was an “Off-Broadway favorite”, and was the first black woman of the primary SNL cast and, along with Terry Sweeney, the first LGBT member, though she was not openly out. Her comedy and theater work featured themes of social issues, including that of being consistently stereotyped during casting. During her career, she received an Obie Award and an NAACP Image Award.

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Vance appeared on SNL during a time of great transition for the show outside her roles, while she herself became frustrated over being put into roles that were stereotypically associated with young, black women: such as waitresses; nurses; secretaries; unwed, welfare-dependent mothers (her recurring character, Cabrini Green Jackson, easily fell into this category); and “mammy”-style maids/house slaves in Civil War-based sketches. The last type of role was made evident during the episode hosted by Oprah Winfrey in spring of 1986 where in the cold opening, Vance played Lorne Michaels’ personal slave (supposedly as Celie from the movie The Color Purple) who convinces Michaels to force Oprah into performing stereotypically black roles by beating her, only to have Oprah choke Lorne in a headlock while opening the show with its opening line, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” In a short musical sketch on the same episode, Vance sang “I Play The Maids” (a spin on “I Write the Songs”), a satirical song that expressed frustration over black actresses (and herself) being typecast as maids in films and on television shows. Ironically, one of Danitra Vance’s celebrity impersonations was of Cicely Tyson (in The Pee Wee Herman Thanksgiving Special sketch), who avoided film or TV roles that stereotyped black women, and, during her hosting stint on the fourth season (1978–1979), was shocked and disgusted that Garrett Morris was put in lesser roles on the show.

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Danitra Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actress. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Danitra Vance celebrates birthday on July 13 of every year.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990, Vance underwent a single mastectomy and incorporated the experience into a solo skit, “The Radical Girl’s Guide to Radical Mastectomy”. She expanded on her experiences in a second, autobiographical show, titled “Pre-Shrunk” which was to be performed at The Public Theater. However, she was unable to perform as her cancer recurred in

1993. She died of the disease the following year in Markham, Illinois. She requested her funeral be held at an amusement park, and her family threw her a “going-away party” with apple bobbing and bean bag tossing to respect her wishes. She was survived by her partner, Jones Miller.