Mary Alice
Biography
Mary Alice was born on December 3, 1936 in Indianola, Mississippi, USA to parents Ozelar Jurnakin (Smith) and Sam Smith.
She was an actress, known for The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Awakenings (1990) and Malcolm X (1992). She taught in Elementary School before her acting career took off. When she was still a struggling actress doing stage plays, she made a living doing her castmate's laundry for a salary of $200 a week. She was a lifelong liberal Democrat, feminist, and civil rights activist. Was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2000. She retired from acting in 2005.
She died of natural causes on July 27, 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Upon her death, she was buried with her siblings at Oak Wood Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, in regard for her last wishes.
Filmography
The Burly Man Chronicles
2004
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
as Self
What I Want My Words to Do to You
2003
as Self
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
as The Oracle
Sunshine State
2002
as Eunice Stokes
The Last Brickmaker in America
2001
as Dorothy Cobb
The Photographer
2000
as Violet
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce
1999
as Dolores Williams
The Wishing Tree
1999
as Mattie
Down in the Delta
1998
as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
Bed of Roses
1996
as Alice
Heading Home
1995
as Mary Jones
Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder
1995
The Mother
1994
as Black Lady
The Inkwell
1994
as Evelyn
The Vernon Johns Story
1994
as Altona
A Perfect World
1993
as Lottie
Life with Mikey
1993
as Mrs. Gordon
Malcolm X
1992
as School Teacher
The Bonfire of the Vanities
1990
as Annie Lamb
Awakenings
1990
as Nurse Margaret
To Sleep with Anger
1990
as Suzie
The Women of Brewster Place
1989
as Fannie Michael
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
as Blind Lily