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}} Phylicia Rashad (born Phylicia Ayers-Allen; June 19, 1948) is an American actress, singer and stage director, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom ''The Cosby Show''. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for this role in 1985 and 1986. In 2004, Rashad became the first African-American actress to win the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, which she won for her role in the revival of ''A Raisin in the Sun''.〔("Tony Awards Wrap Up" ) by Amy Somensky. Jun 9, 2004]〕〔(Tony Awards (official site) )〕 She resumed the role in the 2008 television adaptation of ''A Raisin in the Sun'', which earned her the 2009 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. Rashad was dubbed "The Mother" of the African-American community at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards. ==Early life== Rashad was born Phylicia Ayers-Allen in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Vivian Ayers, was a Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, poet, playwright, scholar, and publisher. Her father, Andrew Arthur Allen, (d. 1984), was an orthodontist.〔Lawrence, Muhammad. - "One-woman dynamo". - ''The Courier-Journal''. - September 12, 1999.〕 Rashad's siblings are jazz-musician brother Tex (Andrew Arthur Allen, Jr., born 1945), sister Debbie Allen (born 1950), an actress, choreographer, and director, and brother Hugh Allen (a real estate banker in North Carolina). While Rashad was growing up, her family moved to Mexico, and as a result, Rashad speaks Spanish fluently. Rashad studied at Howard University, graduating ''magna cum laude'' in 1970 with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was initiated into the Alpha chapter during her tenure at Howard University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://movies.yahoo.com/person/phylicia-rashad/biography.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phylicia Rashad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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