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Oct 11, 2014 · Danitra Vance was a Chicago native who began her career as a well-regarded stage actress, working with New York Shakespeare Festival producer George C. Wolfe. Upon joining the cast in 1985, she ...
Nov 21, 2021 · Danitra Vance (1954-1994) SNL's first black female repertory cast member, Vance was best known for impressions of Diahann Carroll and Lola Falana, ...
Feb 7, 2019 · This video is unavailable. Watch on. in 1991, danitra was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a single mastectomy. she continued to write and perform her own material. unfortunately, the cancer recurred in 1993. danitra died in the following year. she was just 40 years old. danitra vance’s time in the limelight and on the earth was ...
Dec 7, 2023 · Danitra Vance Wikipedia. (Text) CC BY-SA. Danitra Vance (July 13, 1954 August 21, 1994) was an American comedian and actress best known as a cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live during its eleventh season and for work in feature films like Sticky Fingers (1988), Limit Up (1990) and Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1992). Born in.
Oct 29, 2013 · Danitra Vance, a gifted downtown actress and Second City veteran, lasted just one season. “Saturday Night Live” later cast Ellen Cleghorne (1991-95) and Maya Rudolph, a biracial star who left ...
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Jul 13, 2012 · Danitra Vance was the first African-American woman to be a regular on the TV show Saturday Night Live. She appeared on the show for one season in 1985-86 (the same year Randy Quaid and Robert Downey, Jr. were regulars). SNL aside, Danitra Vance was best known as a New York stage actress and tart-tongued comedian,
Jun 7, 2020 · Danitra Vance was a comedic chameleon, creating her own characters, making the stage into her world, owning her gift with the ease of a jazz musician. She was a star who could take it or leave it, and whatever she created, embodied and performed was on her terms, in her words or in the words of someone like Nora Zeal Hurston ("Spunk”) with ...
