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Roxy is the sassy, street-smart member of this troupe of grim reapers. She has no problem "telling it like it is." As the veteran of the group, she makes sure everyone knows their place within the reaper team's hierarchy.
Jasmine Guy began her career as a dancer for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She transitioned to acting and television with her star-making role as snooty Southern belle Whitley Gilbert on The Cosby Show spin-off A Different World. She won six consecutive NAACP Image Awards for her portrayal of Whitley, and directed and wrote for the series as well.
Her other television credits include guest-starring roles on such series as Melrose Place, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Living Single and Any Day Now. She also starred in the telefilms Stompin' at the Savoy, Alex Haley's Queen, The Boy Who Painted Christ Black, and Showtime's Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints.
Guy's first feature film, Spike Lee's School Daze, led to many movie roles, including turns in Harlem Nights, Diamond Men, Guinevere and Kla$h. On stage, she played the role of Velma Kelly in the hit Broadway revival of Chicago and appeared in the Broadway productions of Leader of the Pack and The Wiz. Off-Broadway, she charmed audiences in the '60s revue of Beehive, and toured Europe in a sizzling production of Bubbling Brown Sugar.
Guy will return to Broadway this fall, appearing opposite Robert Sean Leonard in the Manhattan Theater Club's production of The Violet Hour. She also has written a book, Evolution of a Revolutionary: Conversations with Afeni Shakur, published by Atria, a division of Simon & Schuster, in February 2004. |
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