Birthday
1925/09/22
Day of death
2004/05/06 (78 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Sumter, South Carolina, USA
Also know as
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Eliza "Virginia" Capers (September 22, 1925 – May 6, 2004) was an American actress. She won the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1974 for her performance as Lena Younger in Raisin, a musical version of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(1972) Lady Sings the Blues
as Mama Holiday
(1990) Burning Bridges
as Mamie
(1993) What's Love Got to Do with It
as Choir Mistress
(1986) Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
as Emma Ray
(1995) Truman
as Elizabeth Moore
(1972) The Judge and Jake Wyler
as Mabel Cobb
(1980) White Mama
as Gorilla Sydney
(2001) For Love of Olivia
as Ida Mae Boudreau
(1984) Teachers
as Landlady
(1973) Five on the Black Hand Side
as Ruby
(1990) When You Remember Me
as Nurse Blandings
(1988) Backfire
as Maxine
(1981) Inmates: A Love Story
as Agnes
(1987) Off the Mark
as Velma
(1971) Big Jake
as Delilah
(1973) The World's Greatest Athlete
as Native Woman
(1995) The Feminine Touch
as Mama
(2001) Taking Back Our Town
as ---
(1997) Sunsplit
as ---
(1996) Raven Hawk
as Dr. Helen Harris
(1962) House of Women
as Sarah
(1990) Pacific Palisades
as Shirley
(1971) The Late Liz
as Martha
(1992) Original Intent
as Lily Reid
(1986) Howard the Duck
as Coramae
(1986) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
as Florence Sparrow
(1982) The Toy
as Ruby Simpson
(1990) Donor
as Mrs. Mantley
(1993) Beethoven's 2nd
as Chemistry Teacher
(1985) Da Capo
as Singing prisoner
(1988) The George McKenna Story
as Margaret Wright
(1979) The North Avenue Irregulars
as Cleo
(1971) Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Effie
(1970) There Was a Crooked Man...
as Cook
(1969) The Lost Man
as Theresa
(1982) St. Elsewhere
as ---
(1984) Murder, She Wrote
as Margo Webster
(1972) The Rookies
as ---
(2000) The District
as Crazy Mary
(1960) My Three Sons
as ---
(1985) The Golden Girls
as Greta
(1990) The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
as Hattie Banks
(1996) The Pretender
as Mr. Herbert's Former Assistant
(1985) 227
as ---
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as ---
(1987) Frank's Place
as Bertha Griffin-Lamour
(1984) Highway to Heaven
as ---
(1969) Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Aunt Cass
(1981) Dynasty
as ---
(1985) The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ruth
(1967) Mannix
as ---
(1979) Knots Landing
as Mrs. Adele Carter
(1997) The Practice
as Virginia Reynolds
(1998) The Hughleys
as ---
(1972) The Waltons
as ---
(1957) Have Gun, Will Travel
as ---
(1964) Daniel Boone
as Elsie
(1967) Judd for the Defense
as ---
(1992) Batman: The Animated Series
as Judge (voice)
(1953) General Electric Theater
as ---
(1994) ER
as Mrs. Wilson
(1994) Madman of the People
as Clara
(1986) Downtown
as Delia Bonner