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Jonelle Allen is a Actor American born on 18 july 1944 at New York City (USA)

Jonelle Allen

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Nationality USA
Birth 18 july 1944 (79 years) at New York City (USA)

Jonelle Allen is an American actress, singer, and dancer.
Born in New York City, Allen grew up in Harlem's Sugar Hill in a neighborhood that included Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and Johnny Hodges, and NAACP founder Walter White. She made her Broadway debut at the age of six in The Wisteria Trees, Joshua Logan's Americanized adaptation of The Cherry Orchard starring Helen Hayes. As a child, she also made regular appearances on a local children's television series, The Merry Mailman, hosted by Ray Heatherton.

Allen returned to Broadway for a revival of Finian's Rainbow. She was in the cast of the original off-Broadway production of Hair at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and also appeared in George M! before receiving critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination for Two Gentlemen of Verona, which earned her New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Theatre World, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance. Despite her success, it proved to be her last Broadway appearance to date.

Allen's film credits include Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Hotel New Hampshire, and The River Niger, for which she won an NAACP Image Award. Other television appearances include Barney Miller, The Love Boat, All in the Family, Trapper John, M.D., Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, ER, and Girlfriends. She played a lesbian prison inmate in the 1975 television movie Cage Without a Key, which starred Susan Dey.

Her most notable roles are Grace, the entrepreneurial cafe owner in the old west, that she played for seven years on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, as well as the flamboyant and outspoken Doreen Jackson on the NBC soap opera, Generations and Lucinda Cavender, the vampire witch in the horror comedy film The Midnight Hour. Before her role of Doreen on Generations, Jonelle played ambitious salesgirl turned boutique manager Stacey Russell, on the short-lived primetime soap, Berrenger's.

Allen appeared as the legendary Harlem Jazz Queen Florence Mills in Harlem Renaissance at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Ms. Allen is currently heading up the New Works//Staged Reading Projects at Saddleback College, and is also writing and directing new shows which Ms. Allen calls "plays with music' which have been presented at Saddleback, notably an adaptation of Dickens Christmas Carol and The Journey both with composer, David Jayden Anthony. This year, Ms. Allen has a film The Divorce by Donald B. Welch, being released on Amazon, and this summer, Ms. Allen will be starring in Hello Dolly at Saddlebacks CLO. Later this year, Ms. Allen will be starring in Donald B. Welch's Secret Garden, and doing an updated version of her Florence Mills one woman show, which Ms. Allen is writing with her collaborators, Stevi Meredith and David Jayden Anthony.

Biography

Née à New York le 18 juillet 1944 Jonelle Allen a grandi à Sugar Hill.

Elle a fait ses débuts à Broadway à l'âge de six ans dans The Wisteria Trees, une adaptation américanisée de La Cerisaie avec Helen Hayes. Elle a également fait des apparitions régulières dans une série locale pour enfants à la télévision, The Merry Mailman, réalisée par Ray Heatherton.

Elle a reçu une nomination aux Tony Awards pour la pièce Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Elle a joué dans plusieurs films américains : Cotton Comes to Harlem, L'Hôtel New Hampshire, et The River Niger (pour lequel elle a remporté un NAACP Image Awards).

Elle a également tourné dans des séries : Barney Miller, La croisière s'amuse, All in the Family, Trapper John, M.D., Capitaine Furillo, Cagney et Lacey, Urgence. Elle a joué une détenue de prison lesbienne dans Cage Without a Key en 1975, téléfilm qui met en vedette Susan Dey.

Elle a joué pendant six ans dans la série Docteur Quinn, femme médecin, ainsi que dans le feuilleton NBC, "Générations", et dans The Midnight Hour.

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Filmography of Jonelle Allen (10 films)

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Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
Directed by John Tiffin Patterson
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Patty Duke, David Selby, Blake Clark, Kelly Rowan, Kiersten Warren, Kimberly Cullum
Roles Madeline Garrick
Rating55% 2.751542.751542.751542.751542.75154
A family buys a house in a new housing development. The only problem is that it was built on the old "Freedomtown" graveyard. The developers deny that the graveyard exists and the family starts out to prove the graveyard theory, while the body count grows. Jean (Patty Duke) finds what she would never want to uncover.
The Midnight Hour, 1h34
Directed by Jack Bender
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, Lee Montgomery, Peter DeLuise, Dedee Pfeiffer, Cindy Morgan
Roles Lucinda Cavender
Rating63% 3.1945353.1945353.1945353.1945353.194535
It is Halloween in the small town of Pitchford Cove located somewhere in New England, and five high school friends, Phil (Lee Montgomery), Mary (Dedee Pfeiffer), Mitch (Peter DeLuise), Vinnie (LeVar Burton), and Melissa (Shari Belafonte), plan on making it a night they will never forget. They steal outfits from the town's historic museum and come upon other old artifacts, including an old trunk encasing a paper scroll which contains an ancient curse. When Melissa, latent sorceress, recites the curse at the local cemetery, things take a turn for the worse.
The Penalty Phase, 1h36
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Peter Strauss, Jonelle Allen, Karen Austin, Jane Badler, John Harkins, Millie Perkins
Roles Susan Jansen
Rating64% 3.216623.216623.216623.216623.21662
Doit-on condamner cet homme à la peine capitale ? C'est la question qui hante le juge Kenneth Hoffman. Décision d'autant plus difficile à prendre, à une semaine des élections, sachant que l'accusé est un violeur reconnu...
The Hotel New Hampshire, 1h49
Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, Rape in fiction, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Nastassja Kinski, Wilford Brimley, Paul McCrane, Wallace Shawn
Roles Sabrina Jones
Rating58% 2.9486652.9486652.9486652.9486652.948665
The Hotel New Hampshire is narrated by John Berry and opens in flashback to the time when his parents met and fell in love while working summer jobs at a New England hotel around World War II. They are brought together by Freud, a European refugee who travels with a performing bear.
Victims
Victims (1982)
, 2h
Directed by Jerrold Freedman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Kate Nelligan, Ken Howard, Madge Sinclair, Amy Madigan, Jonelle Allen, Sherry Hursey
Roles Maydene Jariott
Rating63% 3.1759953.1759953.1759953.1759953.175995
A serial rapist who gets released on a technicality cause of a mishandling of the investigation is pursued by his victims who stalk the man and want revenge for him raping them.
Vampire
Vampire (1979)
, 1h40
Directed by E.W. Swackhamer
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Richard Lynch, Jason Miller, E. G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, Jessica Walter, Barrie Youngfellow
Roles Brandy
Rating61% 3.0506053.0506053.0506053.0506053.050605
San Francisco, 1979. Sur le lieu de construction d'une église, Anton Voytek, un vampire âgé de plusieurs siècles se réveille et sème les cadavres autour de lui. Parmi ses premières victimes, la belle Leslie Rawlins, la femme de l'architecte John Rawlins. Ce dernier voulant la venger en tuant Voytek se rend chez lui et découvre qu'il est un vampire. Ce dernier décide de le faire taire mais l'intervention de Harry Kilcoyne fait tout capoter. Les deux hommes décident de s'unir pour tuer le monstre...
The River Niger, 1h45
Directed by Krishna Shah
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Shirley Jo Finney, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman, Jonelle Allen
Roles Ann Vanderguild
Rating60% 3.003023.003023.003023.003023.00302
Johnny Williams (James Earl Jones) is a working house painter and amateur poet who is trying to live in a contemporary ghetto in Watts, Los Angeles, California. Though he is trying to provide for his almost stable family, times are hard. Johnny's main pride and joy, his son Jeff (played by Glynn Turman) just returned from U.S. Air Force flight school, where he finally reveals that he flunked out, causing great disillusionment. This film follows Johnny's struggle and a few who try to help, including his physician friend Dr. Dudley Stanton (Louis Gossett, Jr.), who purchases Johnny's poems while treating his ailing wife Mattie (played by Cicely Tyson), whose cancer is recurring. When Johnny's son kills a local gang member, and the gang shoots a police officer, the situation escalates to a standoff with the police and another shootout in Johnny's house. The soundtrack is by War, including the theme song "River Niger".
Cage Without a Key
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Susan Dey, Katherine Helmond, Jonelle Allen, Lani O'Grady, Sam Bottoms, Anne Bloom
Roles Tommy
Rating64% 3.235743.235743.235743.235743.23574
Dey plays Valerie Smith, a 17-year-old who is lured into participating in a robbery. Captured by the authorities, she is sent to a reformatory, where she finds herself in more and more trouble while trying to adjust. Her sentence multiplied, it appears Valerie may never leave state custody.
Come Back, Charleston Blue, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Percy Rodriguez, Jonelle Allen, Leonardo Cimino, Charles McGregor
Roles Carol
Rating63% 3.193793.193793.193793.193793.19379
Coffin Ed Johnson & Gravedigger Jones are confounded by a string of strange murders in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York. The murders themselves aren't nearly as bizarre as the calling card left by the murderer: a blue steel straight razor. Legend has it that this was the calling card of Charleston Blue, a vigilante who tried to rid the neighborhood of all criminal elements using a straight razor. Blue, having disappeared years ago after he went after Dutch Schultz (with his trusty straight razor) was considered dead by all except his girlfriend, who kept his razors locked away until his "come back."
Cotton Comes to Harlem, 1h37
Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, John Anderson
Rating64% 3.246993.246993.246993.246993.24699
Reverend Deke O'Malley (Calvin Lockhart) arrives to fanfare at a rally in Harlem. Meanwhile, two Harlem detectives, Gravedigger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and "Coffin" Ed Johnson (Raymond St. Jacques) catch a pickpocket, Early Riser, among the crowd and run him off. O'Malley is selling shares in a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. Uncle Budd (Redd Foxx) doesn't have the $100 minimum down payment, but O'Malley accepts his $20 for a share. Some men from the District Attorney's office arrive and ask O'Malley to come downtown. O'Malley agrees to leave as several masked gunman jump out a meat truck and begin shooting. They steal $87,000 in cash from the back of an armored car. O'Malley and two assistants chase the meat truck in the armored car; the detectives chase them both in their car. A bale of cotton falls out of the during the chase. The detectives lose them avoiding some youngsters in the street. Riser is hit by the meat truck while fleeing a pickpocketing attempt, which causes the truck and armored car to crash.