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=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1991

|True Identity

|Miles' Neighbor #1

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1995

|Heat

|Hooker's Mother

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1997

|White Lies

|Coffee Shop Waitress

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1997

|Deconstructing Harry

|Cookie

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1999

|Just One Time

|Lesbian Book Group Leader

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2000

|Chinese Coffee

|Café Dante waitress

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2001

|Hannibal

|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=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

1995

|Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

|The Woodcutter's Wife (voice)

|"Rapunzel"

1997-98

|Homicide: Life on the Street

|Georgia Rae Mahoney

|Recurring role

2000

|Ed

|Ramona

|"Better Days"

2001

|Sounds from a Town I Love

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|TV short

2001

|Third Watch

|Rita Golden

|"He Said/She Said", "Childhood Memories"

2004

|Law & Order

|Mrs. Gordon

|"Can I Get a Witness?"

References

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