Tyra Ferrell
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Birth Place
Houston, Texas, USA
Born
January 28, 1962
Biography
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Versatile black player with stage, TV and film experience who appeared on Broadway in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" (1981) and gained notice for two quite different but equally impressive performances in 1991: as the attractive, intelligent Bensonhurst woman who dates John Turturro in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever," and as the harried mother who favors one son (Morris Chestnut) over t...
Biography
Versatile black player with stage, TV and film experience who appeared on Broadway in "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music" (1981) and gained notice for two quite different but equally impressive performances in 1991: as the attractive, intelligent Bensonhurst woman who dates John Turturro in Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever," and as the harried mother who favors one son (Morris Chestnut) over the other (Ice Cube) in John Singleton's forceful coming-of-age drama, "Boyz N the Hood."
Filmography
Cast (Feature Film)
The Perfect Score
(2004)
N.T.S.B.: The Crash of Flight 323
(2004)
Poetic Justice
(1993)
Better Off Dead
(1993)
Cutter Dubuque
Equinox
(1992)
White Men Can't Jump
(1992)
Boyz N The Hood
(1991)
Ulterior Motives
(1991)
Jungle Fever
(1991)
The Exorcist III
(1989)
The Mighty Quinn
(1989)
School Daze
(1988)
Tapeheads
(1988)
Side By Side
(1988)
Rita Gold
Nuts
(1987)
Lady Beware
(1987)
So Fine
(1981)
Cast (Special)
19th Annual Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
(1992)
Performer
16th Annual Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame
(1989)
Performer
Are You My Mother?
(1986)
Cast (TV Mini-Series)
The Corner
(2000)
You Must Remember This
(1992)
The Neon Empire
(1989)
Life Events
1984
Feature film debut, "Gimme an F"
1986
First TV role, "Are You My Mother?" For ABC's Afterschool Specials
1987
First feature appearance, "Nuts"
1987
Regular role on TV series, "Bronx Zoo"
1988
First major role in a feature, "School Daze"
