- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (13 video files (6 hr., 12 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Actress and producer Daphne Reid was born in New York City on July 13, 1948. After attending the Bronx High School for Science, Reid received a scholarship to Northwestern University, where she graduated in 1970, and became Northwestern's first black homecoming queen, as well as the first African American to grace the cover of Glamour magazine. In 1979, Reid made her television debut on The Duke, and went on to notable guest appearances on The A-Team, WKRP in Cincinnati and Simon & Simon, among other programs. In 1993, Reid took over the role of Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, remaining until 1996. In 1997, she and her husband, Tim Reid, founded their own production company, New Millennium Studios, in Virginia, the first African American production operation since Oscar Micheaux's to handle projects from start to finish. Reid was an accomplished photographer, and also appeared on UPN's sitcom Eve.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Daphne Maxwell Reid
- Daphne Maxwell Reid
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 1000518772
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Daphne Maxwell Reid.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
061249
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Petersburg, Virginia 2004 July 21.
Recorded Petersburg, Virginia 2004 October 12.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Television Actress.
- Added Author
Reid, Daphne Maxwell, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.