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Isabel Sanford
Birthday: August 29, 1917
Birth Place: New York, New York, USA
Height: 5' 3"
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Isabel Sanford was a Broadway actress for over thirty years before moving to Hollywood. She made numerous guest appearances in various to include recurring member on "The Carol Burnett Show." Isabel continues to act frequently, most recently in a series of commercials for Old Navy stores with "Jeffersons" co-star, Sherman Hemsley. She made several commercials for Nick-at-Nite as well when the cable channel premiered The Jeffersons.
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- Her son, Sanford K. Sanford, and her daughter, Pamela, appeared on her "Intimate Portrait" on Lifetime.
- Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was joined at the ceremony by about 300 fans, family members and friends, including "All in the Family" and "Jeffersons" creator Norman Lear and Marla Gibbs, who played the Jeffersons' maid Florence.
- Played the same character, Louise 'Weezy' Mills Jefferson, on five different TV series: Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998), "The Jeffersons, (1975), "All in the Family" (1971) "Roseanne (1988) and "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, (1990).
- First African-American actress to win the Emmy award for "Best Actress in a Comedy" for her work on "The Jeffersons."
- She was the first African American Woman to win an Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series in 1981.
- Discovered for "All in the Family" by Norman Lear who remembered her from a stage production of "The Amen Corner."
- Joined the American Negro Theatre in Harlem following her graduation from high school. Also was a member of the theatre company The Star Players down the road.
- Had a daughter and two sons by her marriage to William "Sonny" Richmond, a housepainter. She gave up her career to raise her family but moved to Los Angeles in 1960 with her children after the marriage fell apart to renew her acting career.
- Once performed comedy as a teen at the Apollo Theatre's amateur night.
- The youngest of seven children and the only one to survive infancy.
- Was over twenty years older than her "The Jeffersons" (1975) co-star Sherman Hemsley who played her husband on the series.
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