Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross

  • Birthday: 1972-10-29
  • Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Tracee Joy Silberstein (born October 29, 1972), known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–2022) receiving nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter. She is the daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein. She began acting in independent films and variety series. She hosted the pop-culture magazine The Dish on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008 she played the starring role of Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends, for which she received two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in the films Hanging Up (2000), I-See-You.Com (2006), and Daddy's Little Girls (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011), for which she received her third NAACP Image Award. From 2014 to 2022, Ross starred as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series, Black-ish. Her work on it has earned her six NAACP Image Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has also received nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-ish titled Mixed-ish. In 2020, she starred in and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film The High Note. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracee Ellis Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Daddy's Little Girls

2007

As Cynthia

Sue

1998

As Linda

Labor Pains

2009

As Kristin

Race Against Fear

1998

As Kaycee King

Hanging Up

2000

As Kim

Five

2011

As Alyssa

A Fare to Remember

1999

As Jane

Life Support

2007

As Tanya

Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]

2005

As Self / Fifi LeBeouff (segment "The New Workout Plan")

The High Note

2020

As Grace Davis

I-See-You.com

2006

As Nancy Tanaka

Little

2019

As Homegirl (voice)

That Click

2020

As Self

Far Harbor

1996

As Kiki

The Runaway Bunny

2021

As Narrator and Singer

Jodie

0000

As Jodie (voice)

Cold Copy

2024

As Diane Heger

American Fiction

2023

As Lisa Ellison

Candy Cane Lane

2023

As Carol Carver

Invisible Beauty

2023

As Self

Production

The Power of the Dream

0000

As Producer

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