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American actress (1918–2016)

Rosanna Rolle Carter (September 20, 1918 – December 30, 2016)^[1][2][3] was a Bahamian American television, stage and film actress, who was born in Nassau, Bahamas, to two Bahamian parents, and the sister of Esther Rolle and Estelle Evans,^[4] one of 18 children.^[5] During the Harlem Renaissance, she acted at New Lafayette Theater as one of the Lafayette Players.^[6] She acted in The Brother from Another Planet, a well-reviewed 1984 film described by its director as a science fiction allegory of immigration.

Career

In the 1970s, Carter was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company theatrical group.^[7] Her Broadway credits include Inacent Black (1980), The American Clock (1980), and My Sister, My Sister (1973).^[8]

She starred in many movies, including Night of the Juggler (1980), and The Brother from Another Planet (1984).

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