![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: 1970 Biography:Beautiful "N'Bushe Wright" started out as a dancer, trained at the prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Center and the Martha Graham School of Dance, but then switched to acting, enrolling at "Stella Adler"'s studio. Within a year, Wright was starring in "Anthony Drazan"'s "Zebrahead" (1992). That year, she won the recurring role of Claudia, a black civil rights activist fighting for equal opportunities in education in the acclaimed but short-lived NBC television drama I'll Fly Away. She received positive reviews for her moving portrayal of the drug-addicted older sister of the title protagonist in "Boaz Yakin"'s "Fresh" (1994). The following year, Wright played an idealistic Black Panther in the "Hughes Brothers" "Dead Presidents" (1995). A native of New York City, she is the daughter of jazzman "Suleiman-Marim" and a Board of Education psychologist. Wright attended the Manhattan High School for the... Full Biography
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