Norma Donaldson

Norma Donaldson
Born	July 8, 1928(1928-07-08) New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	November 22, 1994(1994-11-22) (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Norma Donaldson (July 8, 1928—November 22, 1994) was an American actress and singer.

Donaldson launched her career as a nightclub singer and then toured with Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne. During the 1970s, she was a popular Broadway star and was most famous for portraying the loveless chorine Miss Adelaide, opposite Robert Guillaume, in an all-black revival of Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls in 1976. She and Guillaume were again paired in Purlie and No Place to be Somebody.

At the time of her death from cancer, she was playing Lillie Belle Barber on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Filmography

• The Young And The Restless (1990–1994)
• All in the Family
• The Jeffersons
• General Hospital
• Poetic Justice (1993)
• The Five Heartbeats
• House Party (1990)
• The Unholy
• Staying Alive
• Farrell For The People
• Nine To Five
• Willie Dynamite (1973)
• Across 110th Street
• The Baby and the Battleship
• Guys and Dolls (musical revival with all black cast) (1976)
• The Great White Hope
• Hallelujah, Baby!
• The Happiest Girl in the World

External links

• Norma Donaldson at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Donaldson, Norma
Alternative names
Short description	American actor
Date of birth	July 8, 1928
Place of birth	New York City, New York
Date of death	November 22, 1994
Place of death	Los Angeles, California