Richard Parnell Habersham

Richard Parnell Habersham is an African American actor in theatre and film and a real estate brokercite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E4DD173BF933A15752C1A9659C8B63 |title= For Harlem Homebuyers, Prices Head North |author= Motoko Rich |format= html |work= The New York Times |date= 20 November 2003 |quote= ] in Harlem in the Manhattan borough of New York City.

Acting

Richard Habersham has appeared in theatre [ibdb name|id=85803|name=Richard Parnell Habersham] productions such as Ron Mark's fantasy farce "Panache!" cite web |url= http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9B0DE0DB1730F93AA25752C0A961948260 |title= The Stage: "Panache!" |author= Walter Goodman |format= html |work= The New York Times |date= 19 January 1987 |quote= Richard Parnell Habersham as the prodigy astronomer delivering a rhapsodic tribute to Betelgeuse. ] and on Broadway in "Joe Turner's Come and Gone,"cite web |url= http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=4499 |title= Joe Turner's Come and Gone: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, (3/27/1988 - 6/26/1988) |format= html |work= IBDB |quote= ] cite web |url= http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=940DE6D81539F93BA15750C0A96E948260 |title= Review: Panoramic History Of Blacks in America In Wilson's 'Joe Turner' |author= Frank Rich |format= html |work= The New York Times |date= 28 March 1988 |quote= ] cite web |url= http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/3441658/used/Joe%20Turner's%20come%20and%20gone |title= Joe Turner's Come and Gone, April 1988 Playbill. |format= html |work= Alibris |quote= Featuring: Kimberleigh Aarn, Angela Bassett, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Parnell Habersham, Ed Hall, Delroy Lindo, Jamila Perry, Bo Rucker, etc. ] the Tony Award nominated drama written by the late Pulitzer Prize winning playwright August Wilson. Habersham played the role of Travis Youngercite web |url= http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?id=1961&search_by=show |title= A Raisin in the Sun |format= html |work= Lortel Archives |quote= ] in the Union Square Theatre 25th Anniversary Off Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun."

In film,imdb name|0352243|Richard Habersham] cite web |url= http://movies.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=141278 |title= Richard Habersham: Overview |format= html |work= MSN Movies |quote= ] Habersham played Eddie in "Do The Right Thing,"cite web |url= http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=29455 |title= Filmography: Richard Habersham |format= html |work= The New York Times |quote= ] Theodore Cotter in "The Long Walk Home,"cite web |url= http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9C0CEED8173CF932A15751C1A966958260 |title= Film Review: A Personalized View of the Civil Rights Struggle |author= Janet Maslin |format= html |work= The New York Times |date= 21 December 1990 |quote= Ving Rhames does a lot with the small role of Odessa's husband, and Richard Habersham, Jason Weaver and Erika Alexander are gently affecting as her children. ] cite web |url= http://apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=4803 |title=Review of A Long Walk Home |author= Kevin Laforest |format= html |work=ApolloGuide.com |quote= Most of the film’s key moments are spent with Odessa and her family, who are not activists "per se" but who show great courage in their everyday life, like when one of the young sons (played with slow-burn intensity by Richard Habersham) stands up to racist bullies harassing his sister. ] the young Jake Branch in the black-and-white independent feature "Lou, Pat & Joe D,"cite web |url= http://www.answers.com/topic/lou-pat-joe-d?cat=entertainment |title= Movies: Lou, Pat & Joe D |author= Clarke Fountain |format= html |work= Allmovie |quote= ] and Cathy's younger brother in "The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez," a "freewheeling musical horror spoof"cite web |url= http://movies2.nytimes.com/movie/132159/Cabinet-of-Dr-Ramirez/overview |title= "Overview: Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)." |author= Hal Erickson |format= html |work= Allmovie on NYT |quote= Flamboyant Broadway renaissance man Peter Sellars was the director of "The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez." This freewheeling musical horror spoof isn't meant to be taken seriously, so don't be fooled by those Karloffian trappings. Ron Vawter plays the title character for all it's worth. He has to, with such formidable competition as Joan Cusack, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Werner Klemperer … ] directed by Peter Sellars.

Biography

Born in Manhattan and raised in Harlem, Habersham earned his B.A. in history from the University of Virginia. A practicing real estate broker, he is currently a degree candidate for a M.S. in real estate development at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture. The history of the American Civil War is one of his particular interests.cite web |url= http://www.corcoran.com/agents/profile.aspx?userid=RHH&Region=NYC |title= Corcoran Real Estate Agent Richard Parnell Habersham |format= html |work= corcoran.com |quote= ]

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