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.
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.
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".
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and dancer.
During a career that spanned 45 years, she attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage.
Respected for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award.
In 1962, Garland won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for her 1961 double LP live recording "Judy at Carnegie Hall"—the first woman to win in this category.
She is considered by many to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.
Garland began performing in vaudeville as a child with her two elder sisters and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager.
She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM, and is best remembered for her portrayal of Dorothy Gale in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated with director and second husband Vincente Minnelli.
Some of her film appearances during this period include roles in "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), "The Harvey Girls" (1946), "Easter Parade" (1948), and "Summer Stock" (1950).
Garland was released from MGM in 1950, after 15 years with the studio, amid a series of personal struggles that prevented her from fulfilling the terms of her contract.
Although her film career became intermittent thereafter, two of Garland's most critically acclaimed performances came late in her career: she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "A Star Is Born" (1954) and a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961).
She also made record-breaking concert appearances, released eight studio albums, and hosted her own Emmy-nominated television series,
"The Judy Garland Show" (1963–1964).
At age 39, Garland became the youngest and first female recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the film industry.
In 1997, Garland was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Several of her recordings have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and in 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the 10 greatest female stars of classic American cinema.
Garland struggled in her personal life from an early age.
The pressures of early stardom affected her physical and mental health from her teens onward; her self-image was influenced and constantly criticized by film executives who believed that she was physically unattractive.
Those same executives manipulated her onscreen physical appearance.
Throughout her adulthood she was plagued by alcohol and substance abuse, as well as financial instability; she often owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
Her lifelong addiction to drugs, including alcohol, ultimately led to her death in London from an accidental barbiturate overdose at age 47.
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.
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer.
Best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in "Cabaret" (1972), she is famous for her energetic stage presence and her powerful mezzo-soprano singing voice.
She is the daughter of Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli.
In 1972, she became the only Oscar recipient whose parents also won Oscar awards.
Seeking theatrical work, Minnelli moved to New York City in 1961, where she began her career as a musical theatre actress, nightclub performer and traditional pop music artist.
She made her professional stage debut in the 1963 Off-Broadway revival of "Best Foot Forward" and won a Tony Award for starring in "Flora the Red Menace" in 1965, which marked the start of her lifelong collaboration with John Kander and Fred Ebb.
They wrote, produced or directed many of Minnelli's future stage acts and TV shows and helped create her stage persona of a stylized survivor, including her career-defining performances of anthems of survival ("New York, New YorkCabaret" and "Maybe This Time").
Along with her roles on stage and screen, this persona and her style of performance added to Minnelli's status as an enduring gay icon.
Critically lauded for her early non-musical screen performances—especially "The Sterile Cuckoo" (1969)—Minnelli rose to international stardom, starring in "Cabaret" and the Emmy Award-winning TV special "Liza with a Z" (1972).
Most of her following films—including "Lucky Lady" (1975), "New York, New York" (1977),
"Rent-a-Cop" (1988) and "Stepping Out" (1991)—were panned by the critics and bombed at the box office, and she had no more major movie hits except "Arthur" (1981).
She returned to Broadway on a number of occasions, including "The Act" (1977), "The Rink" (1984) and
"Liza's at The Palace..." (2008), worked on various television formats and has predominantly focused on music hall and nightclub performances since the late 1970s.
Her concert performances at Carnegie Hall in 1979 and 1987, and at Radio City Music Hall in 1991 and 1992 are recognized among her most successful.
From 1988 to 1990, she toured with Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. in "Frank, Liza & Sammy:
The Ultimate Event".
Best known for her renditions of pop standards, Minnelli's early 1960s pop singles were produced to attract a young audience, and her albums from 1968 to 1977 contained much of the contemporary singer-songwriter material.
In 1989, she ventured into the contemporary pop scene by collaborating with the Pet Shop Boys on the album "Results".
After a hiatus due to serious health problems, Minnelli returned to the concert stage in 2002 with "Liza's Back" and was an acclaimed guest star in the sitcom "Arrested Development" between 2003 and 2013.
Since the 2010s, she has avoided huge concert tours in favor of small retrospective performances.
Billy Stritch
Billy Stritch( born February 12, 1962 in Houston, Texas) is a notable composer, arranger, vocalist, and jazz pianist.
For many years, he was best known as a" confidant", music director, and piano player for Liza Minnelli.
Wendell Burton
Wendell Ray Burton( July 21, 1947 – May 30, 2017) was an American television executive and former actor.
He is best known for his co-starring role with Liza Minnelli in the 1969 movie" The Sterile Cuckoo"( 1969).
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.
Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft( born November 21, 1952) is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer.
She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and producer Sidney Luft, and half- sister to singer and actress Liza Minnelli.

Question: What is the cause of death of Liza Minnelli's mother?
Answer: barbiturate overdose