Ursaline Bryant
Ursaline Bryant, Bryant also King ( * November 4, 1947 in Washington, DC ) is an American actress.
Life and career
Bryant initially worked in Washington, D.C. as administrative employees under the Government in the Ministry of Labour. Later she worked as a model in New York. There she stood in the Wilhelmina Agency under contract. She also worked for the prestigious modeling agency of Nina Blanchard and for Cunningham and Associates in Los Angeles.
Finally, she moved into acting. From the late 1970s played Bryant Theatre in New York City, where she was a member of the Negro Ensemble Company. In the season 1979/1980 she helped Shakespeare Company in New York together with Sally Kirkland and Jared Martin in a stage version of the sonnets of William Shakespeare. In 1980 she was a member of the Chorus in Macbeth at the Shakespeare Company.
Bryant played in two plays that deal with the myth of the legendary Amazon Queen Calafia ( Califia ). She appeared in the 1984 piece Piano Bar premiered by C. Bernard Jackson. In 2008 she played at the Buriel Clay Theatre in San Francisco in the one-man show Queen Calafia: Ruler of California by John William Templeton, a modern version of the myth, the role of the anthropologist Dr. Wright Now.
In the season 2006/2007 Ursaline Bryant was seen at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in A Medley of One Act Plays. For her role in the one-act opera Madam C. J. Walker she was nominated at the 2008 NAACP Theatre Awards as the best local actress. In the fall of 2008, she played the role of Old Bonaparte in the play House of Flowers by Truman Capote in the theater company Books with Feets.
Bryant was active between the 1970s and the late 1990s in film and television roles. She moved to Los Angeles in order to establish itself as an actress. Her first role there in 1977 in The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries. Directed by Robert Aldrich in 1981 she starred with Peter Falk in Harry makes the puppets dance. She appeared in 1980 in Kesse bees on the mat. In 1987, she starred opposite Robert Loggia and Monte Markham the Roxanne in the comedy Danny, always five minutes late.
She presented in 1988 "Captain Scott Tryla " thereafter, the conspiracy or Conspiracy of Star Trek: The Next Generation dar. 1992, she starred in Doogie Howser. She appeared in 1996 with Grace. Bryant was seen in the comedy series Seinfeld 1998. In 2010 she starred in the role of Ruby in Flood Streets. In the movie, set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is Bryant is an older Creole with terminal cancer, the happy living in an abandoned house with no electricity and water anyway.
She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( AFTRA ) and Actors Equity Association.
Bryant is married to Tony E. King since 28 December 1975. It also occurs under the name of Bryant King.