Background
Alice, Mary was born on December 3, 1941 in Indianola, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Sam and Ozelar (Jurnakin) Smith.
Alice, Mary was born on December 3, 1941 in Indianola, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Sam and Ozelar (Jurnakin) Smith.
Bachelor of Engineering, Chicago State University. Studied with Lloyd Richards, Negro Ensemble Company, New York City.
She had a yen to act and began her career on stage in her hometown. Alice has appeared in over 50 television shows and feature films during her career. She made her screen debut in 1974 film The Education of Sonny Carson, and later guest-starred in Police Woman and Sanford and Son.
She played Ellie Grant Hubbard on soap opera All My Children in the early 1980s, and co-starred in A Different World as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic from 1988 to 1989.
Alice"s other film credits include Malcolm X (1992), The Inkwell (1994) and Down in the Delta with Alfre Woodard. In 2000, Alice was inducted into the American Hall of Fame.
Alice replaced Gloria Foster in the film The Matrix Revolutions and video game Enter The Matrix as the Oracle, after Foster died in 2001.
Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists, Screen Actors Guild, Actors' Equity Association.