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Jackee Harry also known as <a href="/biography/jackee-harry">Jacqueline Yvonne</a> is well known for being an American television personality and actress. She can easily be recognized because of her high pitch voice. Jackee is famous for her roles in popular black sitcoms. She played a loud neighbor named Sandra Clark in the classic TV show called, 227. She also played the mother in the show Sister, Sister which was about a pair of black twin sisters. She was the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African American</a> to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for 227 in 1987.

Acting Career

Her theatre acting career started in Broadway musicals in the city of New York. One of her most notable performances was when she played the role of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. She also had roles in the Boys from Syracuse and in The Comedy of Errors. She was gaining a lot of experience on stage that would help her out when she moved on the television screen.

Like some actresses, one of Jackee’s first projects was starring in a soap opera. She played Lily Mason in Another World. She continued her career on this show for 3 years and was popular enough to be invited as a surprise guest for the Another World Reunion which was broadcasted by the SOAPnet channel.

Jackee also expanded her talents to the big screen. She starred alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a> in a film called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women_of_Brewster_Place_(miniseries)">Women of Brewster Place</a>. The movie was from a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Naylor">Gloria Naylor</a> novel. She played the assistant coach in a family soccer film called Ladybugs. Late in her career, she went back to television and had recurring roles in Everybody Hates Chris and the BET series Let’s Stay together. She had a recurring role as Vanessa on the CW series Everybody Hates Chris which was based on the life of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rock">superstar comedian</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Rock">Chris Rock</a>.

Jackee has had a very long career that is still active to this day. On April 12, 2013, it was announced that she would appear in episodes for the new Disney sitcom, Girl Meets World. Later that year, she had a role in the film called Forbidden Woman. She made a guest appearance on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Mom">Instant Mom</a> as Lisa Landry. She appeared in a 2 Broke Girls episode titled "and the Sax Problem" in 2016, as Earl's ex and the owner of a lounge.

Jackee had a notable role starring in <a href="/biography/byron-allen">Byron Allen</a>'s syndicated sitcom The First Family which also featured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Gibbs">Marla Gibbs</a> in a recurring role. The First Family is a White House comedy centering on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_William_Johnson,_1st_Baronet">William Johnson</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)">Democrat</a> who is elected to become the second black president of the United States. It was supposed to be based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Obama</a> and his story about becoming the first black president. Unfortunately, the show was cancelled after just three seasons. The critics were not kind to it and they gave it really bad reviews. The fans of the show liked it because it gave black actors a larger platform than they were used to. The show aired on the CW network which had a good reputation for putting shows that had black actors as the majority of the cast.

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Along with her Emmy for 227, Jackee also won another major award to add to her career. She won the NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Sister, Sister. She won the award for two consecutive years in 1999 and 2000.

Personal Life

Jackee was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina but she was raised in Harlem, New York since the age of nine years old. Her mother Flossie was a Trinidadian while the father was an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americans">African American</a>. She studied acting in a performing arts high school on the lower east side of New York. She was a <a href="/biography/jackee-harry">History teacher</a> at Brooklyn Technical High School before she decided to move on to acting. At the tender age of fourteen, Jackee landed the lead role of the King in her school's production of The King and I.

Jackee Harry got a divorce from her husband, Elgin Charles William in 2003. They were married for 7 years. However, after the divorce, they were still spotted together in public. Elgin Charles said that even though they got a divorce, they were still the best friends and they were living together to raise their son.  Elgin is a hairstylist and there were rumors that they were romantically involved again even though they claimed in public that they were only living together for the sake of their son.

Elgin is known to be an effeminate man and some people do not understand what attracts Jackee to him. He paints his fingernails and he always wears a shoulder length coiffed wrap. Jackee’s real friends don’t listen to the negativity. They know that Elgin makes her happy regardless of how he conducts his personal life and style.

In 2014 Jackee joined her mentor and former fellow cast member from 227, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marla_Gibbs">Marla Gibbs</a> at they attended the funeral of Grammy Award winning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole">singer</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole">Natalie Cole</a> at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles.

Paramedics were called to set after Jackee took a bad spill on the set of her sitcom The First Family. The comedian actress was preparing to shoot a scene with a magician when she fell. The actress hurt her back and help was summoned to set as a precaution. The director of the show was worried because of Jackee’s old age. She was over fifty years old at the time so he did not want to risk anything. Jackee was able to recover without too much trouble. She did not need any surgery or rehab to fix her back. Fortunately, for everyone involved it was just a minor slip that did not halt further production of the show.

Jackee Harry has a net worth of around 6.5 million dollars which she earned from her television shows and film work.

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