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Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross

Birthday: 1972-10-29 | Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Tracee Joy Silberstein (born October 29, 1972), known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–2022) receiving nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter. She is the daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein. She began acting in independent films and variety series. She hosted the pop-culture magazine The Dish on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008 she played the starring role of Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends, for which she received two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in the films Hanging Up (2000), I-See-You.Com (2006), and Daddy's Little Girls (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011), for which she received her third NAACP Image Award. From 2014 to 2022, Ross starred as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series, Black-ish. Her work on it has earned her six NAACP Image Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has also received nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-ish titled Mixed-ish. In 2020, she starred in and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film The High Note. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracee Ellis Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Black Mirror: Common People

as    Gaynor

2025
The Family McMullen

as    Nina

2024
Cold Copy

as    Diane Heger

2023
Candy Cane Lane

as    Carol Carver

2023
Invisible Beauty

as    Self

2022
The Hair Tales

as    Self

2021
Growing Up Animal

as    Narrator (voice)

2021
The Runaway Bunny

as    Narrator and Singer

2020
The High Note

as    Grace Davis

2020
2019
mixed-ish

as    Bow Johnson

2014
black-ish

as    Rainbow Johnson

2009
Labor Pains

as    Kristin

2007
Daddy's Little Girls

as    Cynthia

2007
Life Support

as    Tanya

2006
I-See-You.com

as    Nancy Tanaka

2000
Girlfriends

as    Joan Clayton