Phylicia Rashad Filmography

Born:: June 19, 1948 in Houston, TX
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A talented Broadway actress who shot to fame with her portrayal of loving mother-of-five and high-powered attorney Claire Huxtable in television's The Cosby Show, Phylicia Rashad's strong television presence has lent itself to numerous dramatic roles in the years since her role as the member of...Read More

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A Raisin in the Sun

Actors: Sean Combs, Audra McDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Sanaa Lathan, Justin Martin

Synopsis: Sean Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald, Sanaa Lathan, and John Stamos all return to reprise the roles they originally played on Broadway in this made for television take on Lorraine Hansbury's timeless play about a 1950s-era Chicago family longing for a better life. Walter Lee has died, and Read More

2008
Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

2003
Touched by an Angel: The Last Chapter

Synopsis: In this followup to the first-season episode "Tough Love", Phylicia Rashad and Erica Gimpel) return in the roles of journalist Elizabeth Jessup and Elizabeth's daughter Sydney (whose own daughter Beth, originally played by Melissa Lee Andrew, is here enacted by Lauren Robinson). Though Elizabeth Read More

2002
The Old Settler

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen, Eartha Robinson

Synopsis: The Harlem Renaissance of the 1940s serves as the backdrop for this small-screen adaptation of John Henry Redwood's play as directed by Debbie Allen. The aptly-named Husband (Bumper Robinson) has come to New York City from down South to find his old flame Lou Bessie (Crystal R. Fox), who has Read More

2001
The Visit

Actors: Hill Harper, Obba Babatunde, Rae Dawn Chong, Billy Dee Williams, Marla Gibbs

Synopsis: A cast of distinguished veterans and promising newcomers headline this stark prison drama from first-time writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman. Hill Harper stars as embittered inmate Alex, sentenced to serve time for a rape he claims that he didn't commit. His link to the outside world is his Read More

12/15/00
Loving Jezebel

Actors: Hill Harper, Nicole Ari Parker, Laurel Holloman, Sandrine Holt, David Moscow

Synopsis: Writer-director Kwyn Bader debuts with this romantic comedy about finding the right woman at the wrong time. Theodorus (Hill Harper) has a knack for falling for "Jezebels," women who are already involved with someone else. His romantic misadventures begin in Kindergarten and continue with a Read More

10/27/00
Free of Eden

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Sydney Poitier, Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: Made especially for the Showtime cable network, this touching drama stars Sidney Poitier and his daughter Sydney Poitier, respectively, as a prominent New York businessman and the feisty, troubled teen he mentors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Intimate Portrait: Phylicia Rashad

1998
Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored

Synopsis: Actor Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati) made his directorial debut with this filmed adaptation of Clifton L. Taulbert's autobiography. Set in an African-American community in the segregated South, Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored follows a young Taulbert through three decades, beginning with Read More

1996
The Babysitter's Seduction

Actors: Keri Russell, Stephen Collins, Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a babysitter learns that she may be marked for murder by her best employer, a man whose wife was recently killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
The Possession of Michael D.

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Sheila McCarthy, Stephen Lang, Michael Riley

1995
Touched By an Angel: Tough Love

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) assumes the role of personal assistant to Elizabeth Jessup (Phylicia Rashad), a celebrated journalist who is plagued with alcoholism. Though Elizabeth's excessive drinking has caused serious damage to her relationship with daughter Sydney (Erica Gimpel) and granddaugther Beth Read More

1994
David's Mother

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Sam Waterston, Stockard Channing, Phylicia Rashad, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: Kirstie Alley earned a Golden Globe nomination for her performance in this moving made-for-TV drama. She plays Sally Goodson, the devoted mother of autistic child David. Abandoned by her husband years before, Sally has sacrificed much for her son but has felt it in his best interest. One of the Read More

1994
Stories to Remember: Rhymin' Time!

Synopsis: Mother Goose is a favorite of parents and children alike. Actress Phylicia Rashad brings these nursery rhymes to life. The viewer watches a cast of children and animals perform such favorites as "Old Mother Hubbard", "This Little Pig", "Old King Cole", and "Three Little Kittens". Also, the work of Read More

1991
Jailbirds

Actors: Phylicia Rashad, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Jailbirds is a distaff comedy variation on The Defiant Ones. Phylicia Rashad plays an important LA business executive, while Dyan Cannon portrays a trailer-trash babe from Louisiana. Both Rashad and Cannon are thrown into a dank Southern jail for crimes they didn't commit. While Read More

1991
The Cosby Show: Season 08

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Raven Symone

Synopsis: The eighth and final season of The Cosby Show opens with a shocker for obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad). It seems that the couple's daughter Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), who'd graduated from high school a year early and has been attending Read More

1991
A Different World: Success, Lies and Videotape

Synopsis: Phylicia Rashad once again makes a "crossover" appearance from The Cosby Show in the role of Clair Huxtable, This time, Clair has arrived at Hillman College to videotape the students as they go through the motions of professional interviews and discuss their plans for the future. Skipping out of Read More

1990
The Cosby Show: Season 07

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Raven Symone

Synopsis: So here are the conditions that prevail as The Cosby Show enters its seventh season. Obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad) are still happily married, still living in the upscale Brooklyn brownstone that also serves as Cliff's office. Their youngest Read More

1990
Reading Rainbow: Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: In Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, written by John Steptoe, two lovely women in Africa go before a king to see which will be chosen for a wife. Will it be the grumpy, ill-tempered one or the pleasant, mild-mannered one? This episode of the Reading Rainbow series features Phylicia Rashad as the guest Read More

1990
American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

1990
Polly

Actors: Celeste Holm, Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: There were those in 1989 who bellyached that Disney Television's Polly was a far from faithful adaptation of Eleanor Porter's classic novel Pollyanna. What they meant was that Polly did not resemble the 1960 Hayley Mills movie version of Pollyanna, which itself played fast and loose with the Read More

1989
False Witness

Actors: Phylicia Rashad

Synopsis: Cosby Show regular Phylicia Rashad stars as a New Orleans assistant DA in the made-for-TV False Witness. Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice) plays Rashad's associate--and also her lover. Polarized by sexual stereotyping, Rashad and Thomas clash over the case of the vicious slashing of a talk-show Read More

1989
A Different World: Forever Hold Your Peace

Synopsis: When Whitley (Jasmine Guy) announces plans to attend her father's wedding in New York, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) offers to drive her there. Actually, Dwayne's primary misison is to visit his former classmate Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet, in her first series appearance after leaving A Different World Read More

1989
A Different World: Risky Business

Synopsis: Making another crossover appearance from The Cosby Show, Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad) arrives at Hillman College to conduct a business-etiquette seminar. She also hopes to persuade her daughter Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) to enroll in Hillman, but Vanessa turns out to have other plans. At the Read More

1989
The Cosby Show: Season 06

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Tempestt Bledsoe, Raven Symone

Synopsis: The sixth season of The Cosby Show marks the full-time return of actress Lisa Bonet in the role of Denise Huxtable, second of four daughters of obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) and his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad). Bonet had been on maternity leave throughout much of season five Read More

1989
The Cosby Show: Season 05

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: America's number one-rated series for three years running, The Cosby Show manages to hold on to this lofty status throughout its fifth season on the air. Bill Cosby is of course back as obstetrician Cliff Huxtable, as is Phylicia Rashad as Cliff's attorney wife, Clair. Three of the five Huxtable Read More

1988
A Different World: Clair's Last Stand

Synopsis: Disapproving of her daughter Denise's plans to go to Greece with Maggie (Marisa Tomei) during summer vacation, Clair Huxtable (Phylicia Rashad, making a "crossover" appearance from The Cosby Show) insists that Denise (Lisa Bonet) get a summer job. Does this mean that Maggie will have to journey to Read More

1988
The Cosby Show: Season 04

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: Most of the familiar characters established during the first three seasons of The Cosby Show are still in attendance as the series launches its fourth season: obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby), his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad), daughters Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe Read More

1987
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Actors: Avery Brooks, Edward Woodward

Synopsis: For years, the name "Uncle Tom" and the title Uncle Tom's Cabin have been synonymous with the most egregious form of racial condescension. John Gay's script for the 1987 film version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin hoped to "set the record straight" and restored the reputation of the Read More

1987
The Cosby Show: Season 03

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: The Cosby Show enters its third season as America's most-watched television series -- and would continue to enjoy this lofty honor for four seasons to come. The basic cast of characters remains the same as in season two, headed by Bill Cosby as Brooklyn obstetrician Cliff Huxtable, Phylicia Rashad Read More

1986
The Cosby Show: Season 02

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: Season two of The Cosby Show begins with all six members of the Huxtable family of Brooklyn present and accounted for: obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby); his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Rashad); their daughters, Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf, previously recurring and now a regular), Denise (Lisa Bonet Read More

1985
The Cosby Show: Season 01

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam

Synopsis: In the first episode of the long-running sitcom The Cosby Show, Brooklyn obstetrician Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) is asked by his attorney wife, Clair (Phylicia Ayers-Allen), "Why do we have four children?" Though no answer is forthcoming, the fact seems to remain that there are indeed four kids Read More

1984
The Cosby Show [TV Series]

Actors: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Lisa Bonet, Malcolm-Jamal Warner

Synopsis: The series that literally rescued the moribund situation comedy genre from oblivion, NBC's The Cosby Show made its first appearance on September 20, 1984. By the time its first season was over, the series was the second-highest-rated program in the country, enabling NBC to build a brand-new sitcom Read More

1984