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<a href="/biography/debbie-allen">Deborrah Kaye “Debbie” Allen</a>,
known as Debbie Allen is an American <a href="/biography/debbie-allen">actress</a>, dancer/ choreographer, TV
producer, director as well as the founder of Debbie Allen Dance Academy. She is
also a very active <a href="/biography/debbie-allen">member</a> in the President's Committee on the Arts and
Humanities and has been a dance and acting teacher too. She is best known for
playing the role of Lydia Grant, a dance teacher in the musical TV drama Fame (1982).

Having choreographed many acts
and series, she has also trained many actors and actresses of these days. Born
in a family of performers, she began her career in Broadway as a dancer. She
came to light from the early 1980s, especially after playing as Anita in a musical
drama West Side Story on Broadway. As
she earned a Drama Desk Award along with a nomination for Tony Award, her
second act in “Sweet Charity” got her another nomination. Her first TV role was
in Good Times, where she played as Diana, a druggist woman and the fiancé of
the main character.

Debbie Allen was born on the 16th
of January, 1950 in Houston, Texas, United States of America. She was born into
a family of performers, as the youngest of three children to father Andrew
Arthur Allen Jr. and mother Vivian Allen. Her father was a dentist and her
mother was a dance teacher, and it was she who inspired young Debby into
dancing. After graduating from a local high school, she got into Howard University and studied history,
theatre and Greek literature. She has always been performing from a young age,
as a dancer as well as an actress and so she chose to study the same at University of North Carolina School of the
Arts. Upon graduating, she didn’t find anything to support her living; so
she began to teach dance to younger girls in her small apartment in L.A. It was
only a couple of years later that she started to get acting and dancing roles,
frequently.

Known for her role in the movie Fame, she became more famous after
playing in its TV form, which ran from 1982 to 1987. Her role as a young,
aspiring teacher won her four nominations for the Emmy Award for Best Actress, although she failed to win a single of
it. In 1981, she was also casted in Ragtime,
a movie which was based on the best-selling novel of the same name. She has won
2 Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well, for her acting as well as
choreography roles. Apart from those, she has also had a brief musical career,
and has released two albums: Sweet Charity (1986) and Special Look (1989). A founder
of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, the academy offers a variety of courses for
young, aspiring dance enthusiasts.

Regarding her personal life,
Debbie has been married a couple of times, and got divorced once. She was
initially married to Win Wilford in 1975 but divorced in 1983. Then, her second
married took place in 1984, with former NBA <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Nixon">player</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Nixon">Norm Nixon</a> and they have got
2 children together.

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