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Nell Carter September.13.1948 - December.23.2003

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Nell Ruth Hardy
as an American singer, and film, stage, and television actress. She won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical Ain't Misbehavin', as well as an Emmy Award for her reprisal of the role on television. She also received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for her starring role in the long-running 1980s’ sitcom Gimme a Break!.
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Diva Nell Carter Talks to A&U's Dann Dulin

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Nell doesn't mince words. The girl from Birmingham, Alabama, who began her career singing in coffehouses, would eventually be kicking up her heels in the hit Broadway musical Aint' Misbehavin'. In the early '80s she moved on to television, starring in the sitcom Gimme a Break. She is forceful, steadfast, and heartfelt this afternoon. We are meeting at the offices of one of her favorite organizations, Project Angel Food, located in Hollywood, California. Founded in 1989 by spiritualist author Marianne Williamson, it delivers daily meals with love at no cost to people living with HIV/AIDS all around megalopolis Los Angeles. And every meal that is delivered has "love" handwritten on the box.

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The Highs and Lows of Nell Carter

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Nell Carter’s life was a study in extremes. She endured personal tragedies and chronic health problems, yet she achieved a level of success that most young singers and actors only dream of. She knew both the pain of addiction and the triumph of successfully kicking her habits. And, while she made great money during her award-winning career, she also knew what it was like to lose everything.

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Biography for Nell Carter

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Her trademark sass complimented by a distinctively adenoidal voice that could out-snarl Eartha Kitt and Fran Drescher put together, short (4'11"), round, and robust Nell Carter was one indomitable, in-your-face firecracker...and it made her a star. She was born Nell Ruth Hardy in 1948 in Birmingham, Alabama and raised there, one of nine children born to Horace and Edna Hardy. She grew up listening to the sounds of Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley and developed an early interest in singing that led to performances in various youth groups, her church choir, on local radio and even the gospel circuit. This was a positive distraction from the major traumas suffered during her early life which included the tragic death of her father, who was electrocuted when he accidentally stepped on a live power line, and a rape at gunpoint when she was a young teenager.

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