Mary Alice (born Mary Alice Smith December 3, 1936-July 27, 2022) played the recurring role of Lettie Bostic, the dorm director at Gilbert Hall in Seasons 1 and 2 of A Different World, appearing in a total of 25 episodes.
Life and career[]
Born and raised in Indianola, MS, Mary had a yen to act and began her career on stage in her hometown.[1]
Alice has appeared in over 50 television shows and feature films during her career. She made her screen debut in 1974 film The Education of Sonny Carson, and later guest-starred in Police Woman and Sanford and Son. She played Ellie Grant Hubbard on soap opera All My Children in the early 1980s, and co-starred in A Different World as Leticia 'Lettie' Bostic from 1988 to 1989.
In 1987 she received a Tony Award 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). Her other film credits include Malcolm X (1992), The Inkwell (1994) and Down in the Delta with Alfre Woodard.
In 2000, Alice was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.[2]
Mary resides in Los Angeles.
References[]
External links[]
- Mary Alice article at Wikipedia
- Mary Alice at the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)
