Lili Francks
Lili Francks (* 19;? Also Red Eagle and Lili Red Eagle Francks ) is a Canadian actress and dancer.
Life and achievements
Their ancestors are Native American, the tribe of Cree and Afro- American. Lili Francks thing of the Plains Cree First Nation and is named Red Eagle. She is married to Canadian actor, singer and musician Don Francks. Her two children, Cree Summer and Rainbow Sun Francks, also actors and singers.
In 1967 she sang in the musical Sweet Charity at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London's West End, with Juliet Prowse in the title role. At the beginning of her career in the film played Lili Francks, a smaller supporting role in naturalistic anti - Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971), directed by Robert Altman starring Warren Beatty in the tragic lead role. They can be seen further in the crime comedy dollars noise (A Man, a Woman and a Bank) (1979 ) with Donald Sutherland and the comedy number 5 does not give up ( Short Circuit 2 ) ( 1988) with Fisher Stevens. In the film musical Stepping Out (1991 ) starring Liza Minnelli, she performed as a dancer. A smaller role she had in Guilty as Sin ( Guilty as Sin) (1993 ) with Rebecca De Mornay and Don Johnson. Further supporting roles followed in the television movies Christmas Love ( A Holiday to Remember ) ( 1995) with Connie Sellecca, Defenders 3 - Against the Law ( The Defenders: Taking the First ) ( 1998) with Beau Bridges and flames of passion - A True Story ( Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble ) (2000 ) with Jane Seymour. In the film drama Away from Her ( Away From Her) (2006) by director and screenwriter Sarah Polley she can be seen starring Julie Christie.
Repeats Franck stood on the stage, for example, in January and February 1992 The Wonder of You: A Black Woman's Trip Through the Galaxy by director Djanet Sears. Also in February 1992, she starred in Martha and Elvira by director Alison Sealy - Smith. The piece Perfect on Paper by author Marcia Johnson has been set by director Mimi Mekler in 2001 at the Toronto Fringe Festival in collaboration with Franck in scene. In February 2002 she was in the play The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by author and director Djanet Sears. This was followed by El Paso by author Michael Miller and directed by Philip Akin in October 2002 in the Factory Theatre in Toronto. In May 2004, she starred in Consecrated Ground by author George Boyd and directed by David Collins in the Factory Theatre.
In October and November 2005, Franck occurred in Toronto in the Tarragon Theatre. She embodied the narrator Althea, the female lead in the play Goodness of author Michael Redhill. Director was Ross Manson. In August 2006, she performed with this production in the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. In March 2007, the U.S. primordial performance in NYC was in the Off-Off -Broadway Theater Performance Space 122