Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Sharon Leal
Sharon Ann Leal( born October 17, 1972) is an American actress and singer.
She is known for her roles in movies such as" Dreamgirls This Christmas Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?" and her roles on the television shows" LegacyGuiding Light", and" Boston Public".
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
Michael Jai White
Michael Richard Jai White( born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director, and martial artist.
He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film" Spawn".
White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?" and" Why Did I Get Married Too?", and starred as the character on the TBS/ OWN comedy- drama television series" Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse".
White portrayed Jax Briggs in and the Cyborg Seth in, the return.
He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie" Tyson".
He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film" Black Dynamite", as well as the animated series of the same name.
Denise Boutte
Denise Boutte is an American actress and model, who has appeared in the films" Why Did I Get Married?" as Trina,, as Mandy," Sister's Keeper" and" Noah's Arc".
She starred in the sitcom" Meet the Browns" as Sasha Brown.
Shelly West
Shelly West( born May 23, 1958) is an American country music singer.
Her mother was the country music star Dottie West, whose career spanned three decades.
The younger West reached her peak in popularity during the 1980s before mostly retiring in the wake of her mother's death.
Katherine Rosman
Katherine Barnett Rosman( born March 2, 1972) is an American writer and reporter for the New York Times, previously at the Wall Street Journal.
She wrote the article about Natasha Gregson Wagner," Mother ’s Death, a Daughter ’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood Story".
Shawn Slovo
Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a screenwriter, best known for the film "A World Apart", based on her childhood in South Africa under apartheid.
She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First.
She wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film "Catch a Fire" (also a historical film about apartheid), and for the 2001 film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin".
In the late 1970s she served as Robert De Niro's personal assistant while he made the films "Raging Bull" and "The King of Comedy".
She also made the screenplay for "Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight".
Slovo lives in London and often works for Working Title Films.
Her sister Gillian Slovo is also a writer and her sister Robyn Slovo is a producer.
Slovo's family is Jewish.
Ruth First
Ruth First (4 May 1925 – 17 August 1982) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and scholar born in Johannesburg, South Africa.
She was killed by a parcel bomb addressed specifically to her in Mozambique, where she worked in exile from South Africa.
Tasha Smith
Tasha Smith( born February 28, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer.
She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series" Boston Common"( 1996 – 97), and she later appeared in numerous movies and television series.
Smith has appeared in films include" The Whole Ten Yards"( 2004)," Daddy's Little Girls"( 2007)," The Longshots"( 2008)," Couples Retreat"( 2009), and" Jumping the Broom"( 2011).
She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007), its sequel" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010), and on the television series based on the movies," For Better or Worse"( 2011–2017).
In 2015, she began a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series" Empire".
Later in the same year, Smith made her directorial debut.

Question: Why did Shawn Slovo's mother die?