Ellen Holly
Date of birth: 1931-01-16
Place of birth: Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Ellen Virginia Holly (January 16, 1931 – December 5, 2023) was an American actress. Beginning her career on stage in the late 1950s, Holly was perhaps best known for her role as Carla Gray–Hall on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Holly is noted as the first African American to appear on daytime television in a leading role.
Movie Credits
Take a Giant Step
1959-12-01
After African-American teenager Spence Scott gets expelled from his private school for arguing with
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
1978-08-21
The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his h
King Lear
1974-02-20
James Earl Jones delivers a riveting performance as paranoid patriarch King Lear, an aging monarch w
School Daze
1988-02-12
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during hom
High School Narc
1985-12-04
22-year-old police officer poses as a student to find the identity of a drug supplier at an inner-ci
10,000 Black Men Named George
2002-02-24
In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open ques