Maya Angelou
Acting
Born 1928-04-04
Died 2014-05-28
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
72 credits
Grammy Awards 3
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction 2
Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame 1
Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community 1
Awards
Nominated for 1 Screen Actors Guild Award
Screen Actors Guild Awards 1 nominated
- 1996 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Nominated How to Make an American Quilt
Grammy Awards 3 won
- 2002 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won
- 1995 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won
- 1993 Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording Won On the Pulse of Morning
Tony Awards 1 nominated
- 1973 Best Featured Actress in a Play Nominated
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction 2 won · 1 nominated
- 2009 Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction Won Letter to My Daughter
- 2005 Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction Won Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
- 2003 Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction Nominated A Song Flung Up to Heaven
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Children 2 nominated
- 2009 Outstanding Literary Work – Children Nominated
- 2005 Outstanding Literary Work – Children Nominated
Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame 1 won
- 2017 Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame Won
Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community 1 won
- 2013 Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community Won
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Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.
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Filmography
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Acting
48 credits
Great Performances
American Experience
Touched by an Angel
Intimate Portrait
American Masters
Moesha
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Roots
Iconoclasts
The Nineties
Poetic Justice
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Madea's Family Reunion
How to Make an American Quilt
The Early Show
The Gregory Hines Show
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Get on the Bus
Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration
America Beyond the Color Line
Mr. SOUL!
Good Hair
Orwell: 2+2=5
The Unfinished Journey
Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
Porgy and Bess
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song
The Runaway
The Richard Pryor Special?
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black!
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
There Are No Children Here
Quincy Jones... The First 50 Years
Papa Césaire
One Night in Vegas
The Black Candle
Perfect Moment
The Power of the Heart
Daedalus
Why Is We Americans?
Sisters in Cinema
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Becky and the Birds
Other credits
8 credits
HARDtalk
The Richard Pryor Show
Wild & Free
The Real Malcolm X
On the Shoulders of Giants
Assignment America
Calypso Heat Wave
Angelou on Burns
Writing
4 credits
Dr. Maya Angelou's Blacks, Blues, Black!
America's Dream
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sister, Sister
Directing
1 credit
Producing
1 credit
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