Ruby Dee

Ruby Dee (1922 - 2014)
==Television Deaths==
*The Stand (1994 mini series) [Mother Abigail Freemantle]: Dies of old age/natural causes, with several of her followers by her bedside. (She's made up to look much older than she actually was at the time.) (See also Whoopi Goldberg in the 2020 version.)
*Captive Heart: The James Mink Story (1996) [Indigo]: Beaten and tortured to death.
==Noteworthy Connections==
*Wife of Ossie Davis (widowed)
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