Yvette Hawkins (September 28, 1940 – April 10, 1995) was an American actress on Broadway, on television, and in films.
Early life
editYvette Hawkins was born in New York City.
Career
editEarlier in her career, Hawkins was a member of the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem.[1] She was also involved with the Play-House of the Ridiculous, with John Vaccaro and Ronald Tavel.[2]
Broadway credits for Yvette Hawkins included James Baldwin's The Amen Corner (1965), Lolita (1981), Checkmates (1988) and The Shadow Box (1994). She was also busy off-Broadway and in regional theatre, with a role in The Last Street Play with Morgan Freeman in 1977,[3] in a touring company of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf in 1978,[4] and as James McDaniel's mother in Cheryl L. West's Before It Hits Home in 1992, among many others.[5]
Hawkins appeared in films such as Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Zebrahead (1992), Mississippi Masala (1991), Lean on Me (1989), and Nighthawks (1981). Her television acting credits ranged from soap operas As the World Turns and Guiding Light to dramas Cagney & Lacey and Law & Order. She was also in the cast of Ghostwriter, a children's mystery series. She was credited as a writer on the Children's Television Workshop health show Feelin' Good in the mid-1970s.[6][7]
Personal life
editYvette Hawkins was married briefly, to writer Sam Greenlee, in 1978.[8] She died from lung cancer in 1995, aged 54 years, in New York City.[6]
References
edit- ^ Gant, Lisbeth (1972). "The New Lafayette Theatre. Anatomy of a Community Art Institution". The Drama Review: TDR. 16 (4): 46–55. doi:10.2307/1144753. JSTOR 1144753.
- ^ Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam. Hal Leonard Corporation. 2005. p. 51. ISBN 9781557836373.
- ^ Glenne Currie, "Cynical Street Gang Play Could Turn Into Classic" Daily Courier (June 2, 1977): 18. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "Chicago Proves a Ripe Town 'For Colored Girls'" Jet (January 29, 1978): 55.
- ^ John Simon, "Precarious Paradise" New York Magazine (March 23, 1992): 70-71.
- ^ a b "Yvette Hawkins: Actress Was 54" New York Times (April 15, 1995): 9.
- ^ Keith W. Mielke and James W. Swinehart, Evaluation of the 'Feeling Good' Television Series (Children's Television Workshop 1976): 412.
- ^ "People are Talking About..." Jet (December 28, 1978): 44.
External links
edit- Yvette Hawkins' listing at IMDb.
- Yvette Hawkins' listing at IBDB.