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Jackée Harry (August 14, 1956) is an Emmy Award-winning and two-time NAACP Image Award winning African-American actress, best known for her role as Sandra Clark on hit NBC sitcom 227 from 1985 until 1989. In 1994, she began starring as Tia Mowry's adopted mother, Lisa Landry, on Sister, Sister, which continued until 1999. She is sometimes credited as simply Jackée or Jackee.

Harry was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but grew up in New York City, and graduated from the Long Island University C.W. Post Campus. She began acting after deciding that being a high school history teacher was not her calling. She studied acting at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side in New York City and began her career on the New York stage. In 1978, she made her first professional acting debut as a chorus girl in the off-Broadway production of A Broadway Musical.

She continued to appear in performances on and off Broadway, such as Eubie! and The Wiz. From 1983 to 1986, she played the...

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• The Sunshine Boys
  Apr 2008 to Jun 2008

  Performer- Nurse

• Black Chamber of Commerce Celebrity Golf Classic
  Jul 26, 2007

  Celebrity Golfer

• 50 Million Pound Challenge
  Apr 2007

  Participant

• U Got Me Bent And Twisted
  2007

  Performer/Director

• Damn Yankees
  2007

  Performer- Sister

• Everybody Hates Chris
  Apr 20, 2006 to 2009

  Actress- Vanessa

• Night Of The Living D-List
  2006

  Celebrity Guest

• KiKi Shepard's 4th Annual Celebrity Bowling Challenge
  2006

  Celebrity Bowler

• Man Of Her Dreams
  2006

  Performer- Louise

• Too Good To Let Go
  2005

  Performer

• A Christmas Carol
  2004

  Performer- Miss Fezziwig

• 2nd Divorce
  Dec 2003

• Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms
  2003

  Performer- Cheryl

• Sheryl Lee Ralph's Diva's Simply Singing
  2003

  Performer

• The Boys From Syracuse
  Aug 18, 2002 to Oct 20, 2002

  Performer- Madam

• Not A Day Goes By
  2002

  Performer

• The Vagina Monologues
  2001

  Performer

• Diamonds
  2001

  Performer

• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The rainbow Is Enuf
  2000

  Performer- Woman In Blue

• NAACP Image Award
  1999

  Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• NAACP Image Award
  1998

  Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

• Marriage to Elgin Charles Williams
  Dec 1, 1996

• Sister, Sister
  Apr 1, 1994 to May 23, 1999

  Actress- Lisa Landry-Sims

• Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill
  1994

  Performer- Billie Holliday

• The Royal Family
  Nov 1991 to May 1992

  Actress- Ruth/Coco Royal

• The Women of Brewster Place
  1988

  Gloria Naylor's first novel The Women of Brewster Place was released as a TV miniseries in 1989. It was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions with a teleplay by Karen Hall....
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• Shubert Event To Aid The Negro Ensemble Company
  1987

  Co-Host

• Emmy Award
  1986

  Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy

• 227
  Sep 14, 1985 to Oct 14, 1989

  Actress- Sandra Clark

• Divorce from 1st Husband
  1984

• A...My Name Is Alice
  1984

  Understudy

• Another World
  1983 to 1985

  Actress- Lily Mason

• Rhinestone
  1982

  Performer- Maid

• Colored People's Time
  1982

  Performer- Alberta/Corina

• Second Thoughts
  1981

  Cassie

• 1st Marriage
  1980

• A Broadyway Musical
  1978

  Performer- Melinda Bernard

• I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road
  1978 to 1980

  Performer- Alice

• One Mo Time
  1975

  Performer

• The Wiz
  1974

  Performer

• Two Plays By Richard Wesley
  1973

  Performer- Nurse

• Eubie!
  1972

  Performer- "My Handman Ain't Handy No More"

• The King And I
  1970

  Performer- The King

• Father's Death
  1959

• Jackée Harry's Birthday
  Aug 13, 1956

  Jackée Harry was born