Sandra Reaves-Phillips

{{Short description|American actress, writer and singer (1944–2023)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1944|12|23}}

| birth_place = Mullins, South Carolina, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|12|29|1944|12|23}}

| death_place = Queens, New York, U.S.

| occupation = Actress

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Sandra Reaves-Phillips (December 23, 1944 – December 29, 2023) was an American actress, writer, and singer.

Reaves-Phillips was born in Mullins, South Carolina, and made her Broadway debut as Mama Younger in the 1973 musical Raisin.{{Cite web|url=https://news.uga.edu/actress-singer-sandra-reaves-phillips-bring-late-great-ladies-of-jazz-and-b/|title=Actress, singer Sandra ReAves-Phillips bring 'Late Great Ladies of Jazz and Blues' to Pe|first=Bobby|last=Tyler|date=September 26, 2005}} She later performed in many stage productions, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Black and Blue, Blues in the Night, Harmony, American Dreams, Before It Hits Home, and The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz. She received Joseph Jefferson award nomination for Low Down Dirty Blues in 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jeffawards.org/news/jeff-equity-award-nominations-announced|title=Jeff Equity Award Nominations Announced | The Joseph Jefferson Awards|website=www.jeffawards.org}} She also received two nominations for an Helen Hayes Award and received a Drama League Award for Outstanding Performer for Rollin' on the T.O.B.A. on Broadway.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newworldstation.com/artistlisting/sandra-reaves-phillips|title=Artist - Sandra Reaves-Phillips on NewWorldstation.com|website=NewWorldStation.com - Taking Artists, Filmmakers and Producers to A Global Market - Enjoy quality music, video, film, television and more - a Division of 360EI}}

Reaves-Phillips also appeared in a number of movies, include The Happy Hooker (1975), Round Midnight (1986) for which she received NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture,{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714191/awards|title=Sandra Reaves-Phillips|website=IMDb}} Lean on Me (1989), and For Love or Money (1993). On television, she appeared in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order.

Reaves-Phillips died on December 29, 2023, six days after her 79th birthday.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sandra-reaves-phillips-dead-actress-singer-1235777164/|title=Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Actress and Singer on Stage and Screen, Dies at 79|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=December 31, 2023|access-date=December 31, 2023}}