Hazelle Goodman
{{short description|American actress}}
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Hazelle Goodman (born Hazel Goodman;{{cite news |title=A NIGHT OUT WITH -- HAZELLE GOODMAN; 'Cymbeline' By Way Of Trinidad |author=Alex Kuczynski |newspaper=New York Times |date=August 30, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/30/style/a-night-out-with-hazelle-goodman-cymbeline-by-way-of-trinidad.html |accessdate=January 6, 2010 }}) is an actress from Trinidad and Tobago. As a child she was inspired to become an actress after viewing The Sound of Music, before her family moved to New York where she was raised in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.
Career
After graduating from City College of New York with a degree in drama, Goodman spent seven years developing her one-woman show called Hazelle! The show was adapted for the screen by HBO in 1995, and earned two Cable Ace nominations in the Best Comedy Special and Best Performer categories.{{cite web |url=http://www.bestoftrinidad.com/profiles/goodman.html |title=HAZELLE GOODMAN |author= |date= |work=Best of Trinidad |publisher= |accessdate=January 6, 2010}} In 1997, she became the first black actress to have a prominent role in a Woody Allen film when she portrayed Cookie, a prostitute in Allen's Deconstructing Harry.{{cite news |title=UP AND COMING: Hazelle Goodman; Seriously Set On Being Funny |author=Ann Kolson |newspaper=New York Times |date=December 14, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/movies/up-and-coming-hazelle-goodman-seriously-set-on-being-funny.html |accessdate=January 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527060332/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/14/movies/up-and-coming-hazelle-goodman-seriously-set-on-being-funny.html |archive-date=May 27, 2015 }} Goodman also had a recurring role on Homicide: Life on the Street as Georgia Rae Mahoney, a key figure in a drug dealing family who is eventually murdered. On stage, in addition to her one-woman show, she has also portrayed the Queen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and took part in the February 10, 2001, staging of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Madison Square Garden. Goodman went on to write and star in a second one-woman show called To the Top, Top, Top!{{cite news |title=Love the One You Are |author=Francine Russo |newspaper=Village Voice |date=August 31, 1999 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-08-31/theater/love-the-one-you-are/ |accessdate=January 6, 2010 }} She was also an original cast member of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, performing the late artists monologues that primarily dealt with adventure.{{cite news |title=A Master of Monologues, Living on in His Words |author=Ben Brantley |newspaper=New York Times |date=March 7, 2007 |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/theater/reviews/07gray.html |accessdate=January 6, 2010 }}
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 1991
|Miles' Neighbor #1 | |
| 1995
|Heat |Hooker's Mother | |
| 1997
|White Lies |Coffee Shop Waitress | |
| 1997
|Cookie | |
| 1999
|Lesbian Book Group Leader | |
| 2000
|Café Dante waitress | |
| 2001
|Evelda Drumgo | |
| 2003
|Crossing |Mother |Short film |
| 2005
|All the Invisible Children |Ms. Wright |Segment: "Jesus Children of America" |
| 2011
|Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close |Hazelle Black | |
=Television=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
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| 1995
|Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child |The Woodcutter's Wife (voice) |"Rapunzel" |
| 1997-98
|Georgia Rae Mahoney |Recurring role |
| 2000
|Ed |Ramona |"Better Days" |
| 2001
|Sounds from a Town I Love | |TV short |
| 2001
|Rita Golden |"He Said/She Said", "Childhood Memories" |
| 2004
|Mrs. Gordon |"Can I Get a Witness?" |
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.hazelle.com/}}
- {{IMDb name|0329091}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:City College of New York alumni
Category:Trinidad and Tobago film actresses
Category:Actresses from Brooklyn
Category:Actresses from Queens, New York
Category:20th-century Trinidad and Tobago actresses
Category:21st-century Trinidad and Tobago actresses
Category:Trinidad and Tobago stage actresses
Category:Trinidad and Tobago television actresses
Category:21st-century American women
Category:21st-century Trinidad and Tobago actors