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Debbie Allen. Deborah Kaye Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer, director, producer, and a former member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. [1][2] She has been nominated 20 times for an Emmy Award (winning five), [3] and two Tony Awards. [4]
Allen was born Deborah Lynn Thurmond in Memphis, Tennessee. [2] She was a beauty queen when she was a teenager. [1]Her early musical influences included Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Ray Charles, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the then-current music played on Memphis stations WHBQ and WDIA; as well as country musicians such as Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline ...
When Debbie Allen — the six-time Emmy-winning actress, producer, director and choreographer known for Fame and That's So Raven, and the founder of a dance academy dedicated to helping ...
When Debbie Allen received a call from Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma saying she’d been selected to receive the 2021 Governors Award, the entertainer was totally shocked.
Life Is Not A Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story is a 2006 American biographical film directed by Debbie Allen, based on the life of American singer Fantasia Barrino, adapted from her book of the same name. The movie begins with Barrino's early life in a religious family.
Debbie Allen and Whoopi Goldberg Getty Images (2) When A Different World made the historic decision to address the AIDS epidemic head-on, Debbie Allen knew exactly who she had to call. “I ...
The Best of Deborah Allen: 2006 "God Bless the Children" (with Wayne Warner and the Nashville All-Star Choir) [9] — — — — Turbo Twang'n: 2009
Last week, NASA honored the women of the Apollo missions, including Debbie Allen and Phylicia Rashad’s mother, Vivian Ayers Allen. […]