Biography
Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle became the first Black actress to win the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier.
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Awards & recognition
- Primetime Emmy Award — Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie · 1979
Filmography22 titles
Good Times
To Kill a Mockingbird
Murder, She Wrote
Nothing But a Man
Cape Fear
Touched by an Angel
To Dance with the White Dog
Driving Miss Daisy
The Incredible Hulk
Ethnic Notions
Up the Down Staircase
Maude
The Learning Tree
Scarlett
Rosewood
How to Make an American Quilt
Down in the Delta
My Fellow Americans
The Mighty Quinn
Don't Play Us Cheap
Cleopatra Jones
Train Ride