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That was the first professional job I got, and Ive been working ever since. "We really liked each other," he said. New York City-bred actor Glynn Russell Turman, born on January 31, 1947, who enjoyed his first taste of success as a young teenager, originating the role of "Travis Younger" on Broadway in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark play "A Raisin in the Sun" in 1959 opposite Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Diana Sands as his various family members. Do you think youre a better actor now than you were in the Seventies or Eighties, or even back in 1958, when you were a 12-year-old kid in the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun? Flavored with a soundtrack of Motown hits, the film, which featured Turman in his first lead role, was a sharp contrast to the blaxploitation films popular in the mid-1970s. Where he might have, on stage, been in a rage of trying to convey, in this medium that were doing now, his movements and his energy are much more concise. Flavored with a soundtrack of Motown hits, the film, which featured Turman in his first lead role, was a sharp contrast to the blaxploitation films popular in the mid-1970s. He is married to another Cosby Show alum, Tempestt Bledsoe; the two appeared on the 2009 reality show Househusbands of Hollywood. We had a mutual respect for each other. It was excruciating. Thank you for your compassion and prayers. ", Added Turman: "There were 15 takes from different angles, which shows the stamina Chadwick had considering what he was going through. Then there were the stakes of the scene, which is so important," Wolfe said of the scene in question, the last of the film to be shot. I didnt know what an audition was! Charnele Brown came on in season 2 to play overachieving medical student and Whitley's roommate, Kim. I enjoyed the movie. Turman clearly enjoys his elder statesman status in Hollywood. Womens Rights Movement should have her name written all over. "Before, Black stories lacked a certain depth and dimension we had arguments with producers who were white and had no incentive to tell our stories," he said. Delena, also called Dee, was born from his marriage to Jo-Ann. It could have been a stock character but the writers were smart enough to craft a character that could show all the colors that Glynn has.".