Ruby Dee Husband Died

Ruby dee an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage radio television and film has died at age 91 according to her daughter.

Ruby dee husband died. Ruby in 2007 earned an academy nomination for best supporting actress for her role in american gangster 2007. Later years death in 1998 dee and her husband published with ossie and ruby. She and davis collaborated for decades on art activism and. Ruby dee and ossie davis were among the signatories along with robert altman noam chomsky susan sarandon and howard zinn among others.

Facts about her husband and children ruby dee and ossie davis. In early 2003 she and her husband signed not in my name a statement opposing the impending invasion of iraq. In this life together a look at their life experiences during their 50 years of marriage. Ruby dee was an american actress poet playwright screenwriter journalist and civil rights activist.

Dee died on june 11 2014 at her home in new rochelle new york from natural causes at the age of 91. Ruby married her husband ossie davis in 1948. In november 2005 dee was awarded along with her late husband the lifetime achievement freedom award presented by the national civil rights museum located in memphis.