Jackée Harry

Vivacious, witty, and completely unforgettable, Jackée Harry was born to entertain.

Jackée began her career as a history teacher at Brooklyn Technical High School. She made her Broadway debut in A Broadway Musical, later appearing in productions of The Wiz, One Mo' Time, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, For Colored Girls, The Vagina Monologues, and The Boys From Syracuse, among others.

In 1983, Jackée made her first TV appearance in the soap opera Another World. A year later, she landed her iconic role of Sandra Clark on the sitcom 227 – for which she became the first African American to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. From 1994-1999, she starred as the adoptive mother of Tia and Tamara Mowry’s characters on Sister, Sister, winning consecutive NAACP Image Awards. 

Larger than life and twice as funny, Jackée continues to entertain and inspire in a way that permanently cements her place in the American cultural landscape.