Mary Alice
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| Mary Alice | |
 Mary Alice at the 45th Emmy Awards, Image by Alan Light |
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| Birth name | Mary Alice Smith |
| Born | December 3, 1941 (age 65) Indianola, Mississippi  United States |
| Notable roles | Rose Maxson in Fences Lettie Bostic in A Different World Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions |
| Emmy Awards | |
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| Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series 1993 I'll Fly Away |
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| Tony Awards | |
| Best Featured Actress in a Play 1987 Fences |
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Mary Alice Smith (born December 3, 1941 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA) is an Emmy Award and Tony Award winning actress. In 1987 she received a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her work in Fences. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1993 for I'll Fly Away (1991-1993). She replaced Gloria Foster, in the motion picture The Matrix Revolutions as The Oracle after Foster died in 2001.
[edit] Filmography
- The Matrix Online (2005) (voice) ... as The Oracle
- The Burly Man Chronicles (2004) ... as Herself
- The Matrix Recalibrated (2004) ... as Herself
- ... aka Revolutions Recalibrated (USA)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003) ... as The Oracle
- ... aka The Matrix Revolutions: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version (promotional title))
- Enter the Matrix (2003) ... as The Oracle
- What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003) ... as Herself
- Sunshine State (2002) ... as Mrs. Eunice Stokes
- The Life (2002) (as Mary Alice Smith) ... as Emiline Crane
- The Last Brickmaker in America (2001) ... as Dorothy Cobb
- The Photographer (2000) ... as Violet
- Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999) ... as Dolores Williams
- The Wishing Tree (1999) ... as Mattie
- Down in the Delta (1998) ... as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
- Bed of Roses (1996) ... as Alice
- Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995) ... as Adele Thompson
- Heading Home (1995)
- The Mother (1994)
- ... aka Great Performances: The Mother (USA: series title)
- ... aka Paddy Chayefsky's The Mother (USA)
- The Inkwell (1994) ... as Evelyn
- ... aka No Ordinary Summer
- The Vernon Johns Story (1994) ... as Altona
- ... aka The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story (USA)
- A Perfect World (1993) ... as Lottie, Mack's Wife
- Laurel Avenue (1993) ... as Maggie Arnett
- Life with Mikey (1993) ... as Mrs. Gordon
- ... aka Give Me a Break
- Malcolm X (1992) ... as School Teacher
- ... aka X (USA: poster title)
- I'll Fly Away (1991) ... as Marguerite Peck
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) ... as Annie Lamb
- Awakenings (1990) ... as Nurse Margaret
- To Sleep with Anger (1990) ... as Suzie
- The Women of Brewster Place (1989) ... as Fannie Michael
- A Different World (1987) ... Leticia 'Lettie' Bostic (1988-1989)
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
- ... aka Half-Slave, Half-Free 2
- Teachers (1984) ... as Linda Ganz
- Beat Street (1984) ... as Cora
- Concealed Enemies (1984) ... as Edith Murray
- The Brass Ring (1983) ... as Mrs. Hauser
- The Color of Friendship (1981) ... as Mrs. Garth
- All My Children (1970) ... as Mrs. Hubbard (1980)
- ... aka All My Children: The Summer of Seduction (USA: promotional title)
- Lawman Without a Gun (1979) ... as Minnie Hayward
- Just an Old Sweet Song (1976) ... as Helen Mayfield
- ... aka Down Home
- Sparkle (1976) ... as Effie
- The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) ... as Moms
- The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974) ... as Alberta Warren
