Candy Brown

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| birth_name = Candy Ann Brown

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| occupation = Actress, dancer, choreographer

| years_active = 1968–present

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Candy Ann Brown (also known as Candy Brown Houston) is an American dancer,{{cite web|work=The Weekly Standard|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dance-excess_778806.html|title=Dance to Excess|date=February 17, 2014|first=Gina|last=Dalfonzo|access-date=August 21, 2014|archive-date=September 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927102322/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dance-excess_778806.html|url-status=dead}} choreographer and theatre, film and television actress.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/647882/Candy-Ann-Brown/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826223504/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/647882/Candy-Ann-Brown/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-08-26|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2014|title=Candy Ann Brown}}

Career

Brown is known for originating the role of June in the 1975 Bob Fosse-directed Broadway musical Chicago,{{cite book |last=Wasson |first=Sam|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=2013 |title=Fosse|page=[https://archive.org/details/fosse0000wass/page/662 662]|url=https://archive.org/details/fosse0000wass|url-access=registration |quote=candy brown chicago bob fosse. }} and for such films, television series and stage productions as the original cast of A Chorus Line{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date=September 24, 2006|title='A Singular Sensation,' a New Generation|first=Campbell|last=Robertson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/theater/24robe.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0}} and Pippin,{{cite book |last=Wasson |first=Sam|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|date=2013 |title=Fosse|page=[https://archive.org/details/fosse0000wass/page/317 317]|url=https://archive.org/details/fosse0000wass|url-access=registration |quote=candy brown pippin. }} Zebrahead, Ali, Six Feet Under, Sister, Sister, Nash Bridges and NYPD Blue.

Brown also performed on the Broadway stage in Purlie with Cleavon Little and Sherman Hemsley{{Citation needed|date=August 2014}} and in the West Coast premiere of the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

Brown also appears in the Emmy Award winning television special Liza With A Z starring Liza Minnelli and directed by Bob Fosse.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"
scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Notes
rowspan=3\| 1980 \| Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II \| Candy Beaumont \| TV movie
Heart Beat \| Claudia \|
Up the Academy \| Nubia \|
1981 \| Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige \| Ramona \|
1984 \| Rose Petal Place \| Iris (voice) \| TV movie
rowspan=2\| 1985 \| Lost in America \| David's Secretary \|
Perfect \| Sports Connection Member \|
1986 \| Christmas \| Mrs. Oliver \| TV movie
1991 \| The Killing Mind \| Sylvia \| TV movie
1992 \| Zebrahead \| Marlene \|
1997 \| Nightwatch \| Female Paramedic \|
rowspan=2\| 2001 \| Baby Boy \| Ms. Herron \|
Ali \| Odessa \|
2007 \| Paroled \| Mable Henderson \|
2013 \| The One Who Loves You \| Ruby \|
2015 \| Sold \| Mickey \| Short

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="margin-right: 0;"

scope="col" | Year

! scope="col" | Title

! scope="col" | Role

! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes

rowspan=3| 1980

| Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II

| Candy Beaumont

| TV movie

Heart Beat

| Claudia

Up the Academy

| Nubia

1981

| Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige

| Ramona

1984

| Rose Petal Place

| Iris (voice)

| TV movie

rowspan=2| 1985

| Lost in America

| David's Secretary

Perfect

| Sports Connection Member

1986

| Christmas

| Mrs. Oliver

| TV movie

1991

| The Killing Mind

| Sylvia

| TV movie

1992

| Zebrahead

| Marlene

1997

| Nightwatch

| Female Paramedic

rowspan=2| 2001

| Baby Boy

| Ms. Herron

Ali

| Odessa

2007

| Paroled

| Mable Henderson

2013

| The One Who Loves You

| Ruby

2015

| Sold

| Mickey

| Short

=Television=

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scope="col" \| Year ! scope="col" \| Title ! scope="col" \| Role ! scope="col" class="unsortable" \| Notes
1978 \| The Roller Girls \| J.B. Johnson \| Main cast
rowspan=3\| 1979 \| What's Happening!! \| Cindy \| Episode: "Making Out"
Wonder Woman \| Janet \| Episode: "Spaced Out"
Paris \| Samantha Williams \| Episode: "Paris"
rowspan=2\| 1980 \| The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo \| Black Stripper \| Episode: "The Martians Are Coming, the Martians Are Coming"
Lou Grant \| Yvette \| Episode: "Harassment"
1984 \| Challenge of the GoBots \| A.J. Foster (voice) \| Main cast
1986 \| Jonny Quest \| Additional Voices \| TV series
1987 \| Frank's Place \| Janet \| Episode: "Frank Joins the Club"
rowspan=2\| 1988 \| She's the Sheriff \| Thelma \| Episode: "Hair"
Amen \| Ramona \| Episode: "The Fantasy"
1989 \| Men \| Margaret Hazard \| Episode: "Baltimore"
rowspan=2\| 1990 \| Doctor Doctor \| Gail Butterfield \| Episode: "Odd Man In" & "Doctors and Other Strangers"
New Attitude \| Amber \| Episode: "A Star Is Born"
rowspan=3\| 1991 \| A Different World \| Professor Burton \| Episode: "A Word in Edgewise"
The Killing Mind \| Sylvia \| TV movie
Quantum Leap \| Dr. Verbeena Beeks \| Recurring cast: season 3-4
rowspan=2\| 1992 \| Jake and the Fatman \| Claire O'Malley \| Episode: "Just You, Just Me"
Roc \| Janet Shaw \| Episode: "Roc's Secret Past"
1992-93 \| The Addams Family \| Additional Voices \| Recurring cast
rowspan=3\| 1993 \| Batman: The Animated Series \| Marva Cooper (voice) \| Episode: "The Mechanic"
Bob \| Joanne \| Episode: "The Man Who Killed Mad Dog"
The Sinbad Show \| Doris Leland \| Episode: "Breaking the Pattern"
1994 \| Sister, Sister \| Natalie \| Episode: "It's a Love Thang"
1994-96 \| NYPD Blue \| Sherilee Williams \| Episode: "Up on the Roof" & "Unembraceable You"
1996 \| Nash Bridges \| Mayor Bobbie Werksman \| Episode: "High Impact"
1997 \| Chicago Hope \| Edna Jessup \| Episode: "Lamb to the Slaughter"
rowspan=3\| 1998 \| Ellen \| Sue \| Episode: "Escape from L.A."
The Pretender \| Jacob's Doctor \| Episode: "Indy Show"
Smart Guy \| Sheila Hicks \| Episode: "That's My Momma"
1999 \| Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child \| Old Woman (voice) \| Episode: "The Happy Prince"
2001 \| Six Feet Under \| Detective McBride \| Episode: "Familia"
2001-02 \| Lizzie McGuire \| Mrs. Stebel \| Episode: "I Do, I Don't" & "In Miranda Lizzie Does Not Trust"
2002 \| CSI: Miami \| Felicia Humphreys \| Episode: "Losing Face"

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scope="col" | Year

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1978

| The Roller Girls

| J.B. Johnson

| Main cast

rowspan=3| 1979

| What's Happening!!

| Cindy