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Mary Alice
Alice at the 45th Emmy Awards Governor's Ball, 1993
Born	Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1941 (1941-12-03) (age 68) Indianola, Mississippi, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1974–present

Mary Alice (born December 3, 1941) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress.

Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar (née Jurnakin) and Sam Smith.^[1] 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 film The Matrix Revolutions and video game Enter The Matrix as the Oracle, after Foster died in 2001.

Filmography

• The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
• The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)
• Sanford and Son (1974-1975)
• Good Times (1975)
• Just an Old Sweet Song (1976)
• Sparkle (1976)
• Lawman Without a Gun (1979)
• All My Children (1980)
• The Color of Friendship (1981)
• The Brass Ring (1983)
• Beat Street (1984)
• Concealed Enemies (1984)
• Teachers (1984)
• Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
• A Different World (1987)
• The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
• Awakenings (1990)
• The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
• To Sleep with Anger (1990)
• I'll Fly Away (1991)
• Malcolm X (1992)
• A Perfect World (1993)
• Laurel Avenue (1993)
• Life with Mikey (1993)
• The Mother (1994)
• The Inkwell (1994)
• The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
• Heading Home (1995)
• Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)
• Bed of Roses (1996)
• Down in the Delta (1998)
• Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999)
• The Wishing Tree (1999)
• The Photographer (2000)
• The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
• Sunshine State (2002)
• The Life (2002)
• Enter the Matrix (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
• The Burly Man Chronicles (2004)
• The Matrix Recalibrated (2004)
• The Matrix Online (2005)

References

External links

• Mary Alice at Allmovie
• Mary Alice at the Internet Broadway Database
• Mary Alice at the Internet Movie Database
• TonyAwards.com Interview with Mary Alice