Jackee Harry

Birthplace: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Birthday: August 14, 1956

This sassy TV player has been identified with roles one might term as "floozy", or, at the very least, "of progressive morality", but who also proved her mettle in a number of dramatic or serio-comic parts. Jackee Harry has, at various times in her career, used that stage name, as well as merely "Jackee" (pronounced ja-KAY), and early in her career her birth name, Jacqueline Harry. Harry will always be recalled as Sandra Clark, the flirtatious nemesis to Marla Gibbs in the NBC series, "227". Although Harry had already appeared on TV for several…more

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Credits

Actor

Jackee
Sandra
The Incredible Ida Early
Ida Early
We'll Take Manhattan
Yvonne
Double Your Pleasure
Sharlene Cavanaugh
Crash Course
Edna Savage

Consultants & Advisors

We'll Take Manhattan
Consultant

Director

Sister, Sister
Director

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Career Milestones

2000
Returned to the stage to act in NYC revival of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf"
1996
Made directorial debut with episode of "Sister, Sister"
1994
Starred on stage as Billie Holiday in "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill"
1991
Joined TV series, "The Royal Family" after Redd Foxx's death
1989
Miniseries debut, "The Women of Brewster Place"