Esther Rolle
Birthday
1920/11/08
Day of death
1998/11/17 (78 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Pompano Beach, Florida USA
Also know as
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Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Esther Elizabeth Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was a Bahamian American actress. Rolle is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for five seasons (1974–77, 1978–79), for which Rolle was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. Rolle is best known for her television role as Florida Ev...Read more
Acting
(1989) Driving Miss Daisy
as Idella
(1995) How to Make an American Quilt
as Aunt Pauline
(1973) Cleopatra Jones
as Mrs. Johnson
(1991) Cape Fear
as Woman Watching Cady Get Out from Under the Car (uncredited)
(1971) Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow!
as Maid
(1993) House of Cards
as Adelle
(1964) Nothing But a Man
as Church Woman
(1998) Down in the Delta
as Annie Sinclair
(1981) See China and Die
as Momma Sykes
(1993) To Dance with the White Dog
as Neelie
(1986) Ethnic Notions
as Narrator
(1979) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Momma
(1978) Summer of My German Soldier
as Ruth
(1989) Age-Old Friends
as Mrs. Baker
(1993) Message from Nam
as Queenie / Elizabeth McQueen
(1989) The Mighty Quinn
as Ubu Pearl
(1995) Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
as Clara Brown
(1987) P.K. and the Kid
as Mim
(1996) My Fellow Americans
as Rita
(1997) Rosewood
as Aunt Sarah
(1967) Up the Down Staircase
as Teacher
(1972) Don't Play Us Cheap
as Miss Maybell
(1989) A Raisin in the Sun
as Lena 'Mama' Younger
(1992) Color Adjustment
as Self
(1982) The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
(1990) The Kid Who Loved Christmas
as Esther Clayton
(2005) Train Ride
as Dean of Students
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Margaret
(1974) Good Times
as Florida Evans
(1977) The Incredible Hulk
as ---
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Mary Harding
(1972) Maude
as Florida Evans
(1981) Flamingo Road
as ---
(1976) Donny & Marie
as Self
(1951) Hallmark Hall of Fame
as ---
(1990) Singer and Sons
as ---
(1994) Scarlett
as ---
(1996) Promised Land
as Mary Harding
(1984) Finder of Lost Loves
as Nellie
(1982) The New Odd Couple
as Ms. Gibbs