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Versatile stage and screen actress Lynda Gravatt has died at the age of 77, her family shared Wednesday.
The actress was best known for her roles on Broadway in productions such as The Old Settler, Crowns, Intimate Apparel, Miss Witherspoon, The Little Foxes and The House That Will Not Stand.
The New Yorker was also the subject of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2008.
And Lynda also starred in several television shows over the decades.
Gravatt had guest starring roles on Sex And The City opposite Sarah Jessica Parker (she played a waitress in the 2002 episode) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Tamara Kingston opposite Mariska Hargitay.
The actress, who was most recently on the series East New York, was a regular on The Hoop Life from 1999 to 2000.
Versatile stage and screen actress Lynda Gravatt has died at the age of 77, her family shared Wednesday. The actress was best known for her Broadway roles in productions such as The Old Settler, Crowns, Intimate Apparel. Seen in 2015
Her friend Viola Davis shared a tribute: ‘Nooooo!!! Oh no!!! She loved you in every way. It’s great to work with you, laugh with you, share your infinite wisdom. Rest well my friend. I love you❤️❤️’
Other television shows she worked on included The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Elementary, Madam Secretary, and Ramy.
The Harlem-born actor played a judge in Jennifer Aniston’s 2010 film The Bounty Hunter.
And she played Vernita Wells in the Denzel Washington film Roman J. Israel, Esq in 2017.
His son David Gravatt said The Hollywood Reporter who died last Friday in a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Her friend Viola Davis shared a tribute: ‘Nooooo!!! Oh no!!! She loved you in every way. It’s great to work with you, laugh with you, share your infinite wisdom. Rest well my friend. I love you❤️❤️.’
His death was confirmed by the National Black Theater in an Instagram post shared on Saturday.
“If I have a job, I’m happy,” she told Backstage in a 2019 interview. “I always wanted to be the naive one, but I’m usually portrayed as the pragmatic grandma, even when I was young.”
Director Dan Sullivan and playwright Lynn Nottage (C) with actors Corey Stoll, Lauren Velez, Viola Davis, Arija Bareikis, Lynda Gravatt and Russell Hornsby attend the 2014 Intimate Apparel 10th Anniversary Reunion Reading in the city from New York
He had a famous biological father: tap dancer and comedian James ‘Stump’ Cross.
The star was raised by adoptive parents.
Her career began at the age of four when she had a role in The King And I on Broadway.
And the little girl performed in recitals at Carnegie Hall when she was 9 years old.
Gravatt attended Howard University, graduating in 1971. While on campus he appeared in several plays.
Gravatt at the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Awards at the Lincoln Center Theater in 2015 in New York