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Jasmine Guy
Actress + Singer + Dancer
Female
Born
Mar 10, 1962
Age
51
Hometown
United States
Jasmine Guy is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.
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Terrence DucketteMarried 1998 - 2009
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Terrence DuckettMarried 1998
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Jasmine Guy
Age 51
parents
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William GuyFather
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Jaye RudolphFather
siblings
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Monica GuySister
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Look: 'A Different World' 25 Years LaterHuffington Post - Sep 24, 2012
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Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed Reveals Local GemsHuffington Post - Jul 20, 2012
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Amb. Andrew Young To Celebrate 80th Bday With Oprah And Others In AtlantaCascade Patch - May 11, 2012
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Inside Broadway: August Wilson Monologue Competition Comes To BroadwayEur Web - May 10, 2012
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1962
Birth
Born on March 10, 1962.
TWENTIES
1982
20 Years Old
Guy began her television career with a non-speaking role, as a dancer, in ten episodes of the 1982 television series Fame under the direction of choreographer Debbie Allen.
1990
28 Years Old
During the run of A Different World, Ms. Guy released her self-titled debut album in 1990.
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1991
29 Years Old
Following a move to California, she had a role in a 1991 episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, playing Kayla, one of Will Smith's girlfriends.
THIRTIES
1992
30 Years Old
In 1992, Guy appeared in CBS's Stompin' at the Savoy with Vanessa Williams and, again, under the direction of Debbie Allen, and in 1993 played the mother of Halle Berry's character in the CBS TV mini-series Alex Haley's Queen, based upon Haley's book Queen: The Story of an American Family.
In 1995, Guy appeared as Peter Burns's love interest Caitlin Mills on two episodes of Melrose Place, and in 1996, appeared on Living Single playing a psychologist advising Khadijah who had began exhibiting symptoms of bipolar disorder.
1998
36 Years Old
Jasmine Guy married Terrence Duckett in August 1998, and the couple had one child, a daughter named Imani, born in 1999.
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FORTIES
2002
40 Years Old
In 2002, Guy lent her voice to the PBS math-based animated series Cyberchase, performing Ava, the queen of the cybersite Symmetria, and made a cameo appearance on the Moesha spin-off The Parkers.
2003
41 Years Old
In 2003, Ms. Guy read as Mary Estes Peters in the HBO documentary, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narrative, a documentary which premiered during Black History month.
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2005
43 Years Old
Guy was nominated for the 2005 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the role.
She later starred in the feature-length series sequel Dead Like Me: Life After Death, which was released on video in 2009 before being shown on the Syfy channel.
In 2010, she was seen in the second season of Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva as a judge in the episode titled "Last Year's Model", and from 2009 until 2011, Guy had a recurring role in The CW's series The Vampire Diaries.
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In early 2011, Guy directed George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum for True Colors, and in June 2011, Ms. Guy costarred with Kenny Leon in their production of Sam Shepard's play Fool For Love at The Balzer Theater at Herren’s in Atlanta, Georgia.
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