Phylicia Rashad Hollywood Actress Playing Clair Huxtable Of Cosby Show

Born as Phylicia Ayers-Allen on 19th June, 1948, Phylicia Rashad is one of the well known actresses in America. Due to her acting prowess, she had been honored with the prestigious Tony Awards. She is well known all over the world for her extremely commendable role in The Cosby Show that was aired in the television during the 1980s in the role of Clair Huxtable.

Phylicia Rashad was born on 19th June, 1948, in Harris Country, Texas in America. She is the daughter of Andrew Arthur Allen who was a Cherokee and Vivian Ayers, who was an African-American. Both her parents were well known as her father was a dentist and her mother was an artist, poet, playwright, publisher who had been nominated for the Pulitzer Award. She has two brothers- Tex, a musician and Hugh Allen, a real estate banker. Her sister was actress Debbie Allen.

Phylicia Rashad had moved from her place of birth to Mexico so as to avoid the problem of racism that was predominant in the USA at that time. This had made her learn two languages- English and Spanish in which she is very fluent. She had completed her graduation from the Howard University. Later she had been a professor of drama in the same university. She had also been an active member of the Sorority known as Alpha Kappa Alpha.

The first of Phylicia Rashads stint as an actress were at the stages of Broadway where she had played characters like Deena Jones in the play Dreamgirls; and Munchkin in the play The Wiz. She also tried her hand in the music industry when she had done an album Josephine Superstar that was a disco record on the life of Josephine Baker in the year 1978. This album was co-written and produced by Victor Willis who later became her husband.

Phylicia Rashad had joined the soap operas in the year 1983 for ABC which was named One Life to Live. The Cosby Show had her playing the role of the attorney Clair Huxtable. She again returned to the television screens with Cosby, a comedy in the year 1996 playing the part of Ruth Lucas. This series had been successful and had been on TV from 1996 to 2000. She had also done a part in the animated series Little Bill.

Phylicia Rashad was given an honorary Doctor in Fine Arts from the Brown University in the year 2005. Another of the parts that have been played by her is the mother of Kill Move in the serial Everybody Hates Chris that was aired on the 9th of December, 2007 which was a Sunday. Some of her recent projects are a raisin in the sun and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Phylicia Rashad