Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, but grew up in Harlem. She graduated in 1945 from Hunter College in New York. Dee's career in acting has crossed all major forms of media over a span of eight decades, including the films "A Raisin in the Sun," in which she recreated her stage role as a suffering housewife in the projects.
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