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Debbie Allen is a Actor, Director, Producer and Choreographer American born on 16 january 1950 at Houston (USA)
Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen (born January 16, 1950) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, television director, television producer, and a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. She is perhaps best known for her work on the 1982 musical-drama television series Fame, where she portrayed dance teacher Lydia Grant, and served as the series' principal choreographer. She plays Catherine Avery on Grey's Anatomy. She is the younger sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashād.
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Birth name Deborah Kaye Allen
Nationality USA
Birth 16 january 1950 (75 years) at Houston (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
Nationality USA
Birth 16 january 1950 (75 years) at Houston (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award
Biography
Allen is married to former NBA player Norm Nixon, and they have two children, dancer Vivian Nichole Nixon, and basketball player Norman Ellard Nixon Jr. (Wofford College & Southern University). Allen was previously married to Win Wilford from 1975 to 1983. She is the sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashād, and Tex Allen (Andrew Arthur Allen Jr, born 1945), noted jazz composer.Work
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Fame (2009)
, 1h47Directed by Kevin Tancharoen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Collins Pennie, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Dutton, Megan Mullaly, Bebe Neuwirth, Naturi Naughton
Roles Ms. Angela Simms
Rating50%
During the opening scenes in auditions and orientation, it is told that in 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts (P.A.) was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors David Leitch, Angelina Jolie, Holmes Osborne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Nathan Lee Graham
Roles Self
Rating39%
A 'mockumentary' on the rise and fall of Chip and Dales dancer turned martial arts action star, Francis Allen Sledgewick, AKA Frank Sledge. When fame and fortune caused Frank to lose his sense of what's truly important, he realised he's going to have to get in touch with his roots if there's ever going to be a comeback.
Next Day Air (2009)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Mike Epps, Omari Hardwick, Darius McCrary, Yasmin Deliz
Roles Ms. Jackson
Rating56%
Leo works for Next Day Air (NDA), a package delivery company, but is going to get fired for any more mistakes. While delivering a package addressed to Jesus in apartment 303, Leo accidentally delivers it to apartment 302. Before Leo can leave Jesus asks if Leo has the package and gets worried when he is empty handed. Guch and Brody, two inept criminals, open the package and find ten bricks of cocaine hidden in a clay pot. Brody remembers that his cousin, Shavoo, has cut cocaine before. Shavoo and his partner, Buddy, come to Guch's apartment and settle on $15,000 a brick.
All About You (2001)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Renée Elise Goldsberry, Terron Brooks, Debbie Allen, Lisa Raye, Lou Myers, Adam Lazarre-White
Roles Ruth
Rating62%
Nicole is in love with her boyfriend Robbie and is ready to start talking about marriage. Unfortunately for her, he hasn’t even thought about a future with her. She moves to San Francisco to start a new life, and ends up with Robbie's brother Brian as her roommate for one month. Just as Nicole and Brian realize they have feelings for each other, Robbie wants to try a relationship with Nicole again.
The Painting (2001)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Clifton Davis, Charles Shaughnessy, Stacey Dash, Debbie Allen, Ben Vereen, Josh Ackerman
Roles Bertha Lee Gilmore
Rating58%
Everything's Jake (2000)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ernie Hudson, Phyllis Diller, Doug E. Doug, Stephen Furst, Robin Givens, Lou Myers
Roles Debbie Allen
Rating60%
Within the most storied city in the world lives Jake (Ernie Hudson), a homeless man who calls all of Manhattan his home. Jake discovers Cameron (Graeme Malcolm), a man down on his luck and sleeping in a tree in Central Park.
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Michael Jace, Debbie Allen, Ernie Hudson, Robin Givens, Maria Ford
Roles Deloris Jordan
Rating44%
Out-of-Sync (1995)
, 1h45Directed by Debbie Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors LL Cool J, Victoria Dillard, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman, Yaphet Kotto, Aries Spears
Roles Manicurist
Rating45%
LL Cool J stars as Jason St. Julian, a talented yet troubled DJ with a gambling problem. As St. Julian is sleeping, Crash (Ray) & Nut (Venturini) break into his apartment to collect a debt, since St. Julian doesn't have the money, he gets a week to repay it. One night while DJing an underground party, St. Julian runs into Danny Simon (Zada) & his girlfriend Monica (Dillard), Simon tries to convince St. Julian to DJ at his club, but he refuses to do so because of Simon was responsible for sending St. Julian to jail.
Blank Check (1994)
, 1h34Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Brian Bonsall, Karen Duffy, Miguel Ferrer, James Rebhorn, Tone Loc, Jayne Atkinson
Roles Yvonne
Rating53%
The story begins when convicted bank robber Carl Quigley (Miguel Ferrer) escapes from prison. Soon after his prison break, Quigley enters a warehouse and recovers $1,000,000 he had hidden there sometime before his arrest (although it is unclear exactly how he illegally obtained the money). The film then cuts to 12-year-old Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall), whose father (James Rebhorn) works as an investor for a living and is very frugal with money—so much so that when he is given a blank check from his grandmother for his birthday, his dad fills it out for only $11.00. Plus, when invited to a friend's birthday party at an amusement park, he only has enough tokens to go on the kiddie rides.
, 1h37Directed by Richard Pryor
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Debbie Allen, Michael Ironside, Richard Pryor, Art Evans, Carmen McRae, Barbara Williams
Roles Michelle
Rating62%
Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian who has severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine. The film came out after Pryor had set himself on fire in an attempted suicide.
Ragtime (1981)
, 2h35Directed by Miloš Forman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique
Actors James Cagney, Brad Dourif, Moses Gunn, Elizabeth McGovern, Kenneth McMillan, Howard Rollins
Roles Sarah
Rating72%
The film begins with a newsreel montage, depicting celebrities of the turn of the 20th century such as Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and the architect Stanford White (Norman Mailer), as well as life in New York. The newsreel is accompanied by ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker, Jr. (Howard E. Rollins, Jr.). The millionaire industrialist Harry Kendall Thaw (Robert Joy), who makes a scene when White's latest creation, a nude statue on the roof of Madison Square Garden, is unveiled. The model for the statue is Evelyn Nesbit (Elizabeth McGovern), a former chorus girl who is now Thaw's wife. Thaw becomes convinced White has corrupted Evelyn and humiliated him, and publicly shoots White, killing him.
Fame (1980)
, 2h14Directed by Alan Parker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about education, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Debbie Allen, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Boyd Gaines
Roles Lydia
Rating65%
We see the principal students auditioning alongside less successful applicants. In the drama department, Montgomery forgets his lines while auditioning, and Doris's nerves aren't helped by the presence of her pushy mother, who insists Doris should sing in her audition. In the music department, Bruno's father and uncle help haul Bruno's keyboards and equipment from their taxicabs to the audition. Bruno's electronics horrify the conservative music teacher, Mr. Shorofsky.
, 1h42Directed by Gilbert Moses
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Basketball films, Musical films
Actors Jonathan Winters, Stockard Channing, Margaret Avery, Jack Kehoe, Michael Vincenzo Gazzo, Peter Isacksen
Roles Ola
Rating53%
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh tells the story of a struggling professional basketball team, the Pittsburgh Pythons, whose continuous losing streak and lack of talent has made them the laughing stock of Pittsburgh. Several players ask to be transferred to other teams, partly due to the bad publicity and the presence of the difficult but highly paid star player, Moses Guthrie (Julius Erving).
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Out-of-Sync (1995)
, 1h45Directed by Debbie Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors LL Cool J, Victoria Dillard, Tim Reid, Howard Hesseman, Yaphet Kotto, Aries Spears
Rating45%
LL Cool J stars as Jason St. Julian, a talented yet troubled DJ with a gambling problem. As St. Julian is sleeping, Crash (Ray) & Nut (Venturini) break into his apartment to collect a debt, since St. Julian doesn't have the money, he gets a week to repay it. One night while DJing an underground party, St. Julian runs into Danny Simon (Zada) & his girlfriend Monica (Dillard), Simon tries to convince St. Julian to DJ at his club, but he refuses to do so because of Simon was responsible for sending St. Julian to jail.
Polly (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Debbie Allen
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Keshia Knight Pulliam, Phylicia Rashād, Dorian Harewood, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Barbara Montgomery, T. K. Carter
Rating79%
The film is set in Alabama during the 1950s and features an all African-American cast (with the exception of Celeste Holm). Pulliam stars as Polly Whittier, an orphan who is sent to live with her aunt Polly Harrington, who is a descendant of the founding family of a small Southern town (also called Harrington) during the segregation era. A key point in dividing the town is a ravine which has an unrepaired bridge which burned down many years ago, and no one knows how it started and is suspicious of everyone else. Polly is able to convince people to look at the bright side of things, but tragedy strikes when Polly falls two stories from a tree, suffering a spinal injury.