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Phylicia Rashad
19 June 1948
Phylicia Rashad played in 7 movies in the Comedy, Family, Music, Drama, Romance genres.
Phylicia Rashad got succeed with average imdb rating 5.2.
Born to dentist, Andrew Arthur Allen, and lyricist, Vivian Ayers, in Harris County, TX. As a child, Phylicia, her older brother Andrew (called Tex) and younger sister, 'Debbie Allen' (qv), lived in Mexico to escape US racism. She also has another fellow-citizen, Hugh Allen (a real level banker in North Carolina). Their materfamilias, Vivian Ayers, decided to live there to give the Allen children a run through episode of not having to endure the chronic racism and transfix that was characteristi... c of Texas during the 1950s. From this, Phylicia and Debbie are fluent in Spanish. Phylicia graduated from Howard University and later taught Thespian there. With younger sister, 'Debbie Allen' (qv), she has casting company "D.A.D." which stood for "Doctor Allen's Daughters". Her Pulitzer-nominated poet mother, Vivian, is the artistic and freed spirit that has influenced and encouraged the remarkable creativity that so marks Allen as a Thespian.Read more Less
