Clarice Taylor

Clarice Taylor (1917-2011) was an actress who recurred on Sesame Street as Grace, David's grandmother, from 1976 until 1989.
On Broadway, Taylor played Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North, in The Wiz. Film credits include Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me, Five on the Black Hand Side (with Leonard Jackson), The High Five (with Roscoe Lee Browne), Sommersby (with Jodie Foster) and Smoke (with William Hurt). On television, Taylor appeared on Sanford and Son and was Anna Huxtable, the mother of Bill Cosby's character Cliff Huxtable, on The Cosby Show, which led to Taylor's sole Emmy nomination.
Her acting career spanned more than five decades, and included radio, television, and film. She co-founded the American Negro Theatre in Harlem.
==External links==
* IMDb
* Internet Broadway Database
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