Virginia Capers

Virginia Capers

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Birthday: 
22 September 1925, Sumter, South Carolina, USA
Birth Name: 
Eliza Virginia Capers
With plenty of heart and soul, actress Virginia Capers served up loads of music in a career that spanned several decades. Born in 1925, she attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., then studied voice at Juilliard in Manhatten. By happenstance, she was introduced to band leader Abe Lyman who hired her for his radio program and for on-the-road... Show more »
With plenty of heart and soul, actress Virginia Capers served up loads of music in a career that spanned several decades. Born in 1925, she attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., then studied voice at Juilliard in Manhatten. By happenstance, she was introduced to band leader Abe Lyman who hired her for his radio program and for on-the-road tours. In the late 50s, she had made it to Broadway with productions of "Jamaica" and "Saratoga." She would cap things off with a Tony Award for her Lena Younger matriarch in the 1974 musical "Raisin", the musical version of A Raisin in the Sun (1961). In 1979, she was given an opportunity to perform in a straight dramatic version of the Lorraine Hansberry play. A benevolent, heavyset African-American woman, Virginia worked diligently to fight off rigid Hollywood stereotypes and, on occasion, played judges, nurses and other professional types. Just the same, she found herself too often typecast, along with her peers Theresa Merritt and Mabel King, as poor, husband-less mothers or proud domestic help. Recognition on stage sparked a move to TV where she appeared generously from the 1960s on in both drama ("Daniel Boone," "Mannix," "Knot's Landing," "ER") and comedy ("Evening Shade," "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," "The Hughleys"). Her best known roles in films were as Diana Ross' mother, Mama Holliday, in Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and as Nurse Sparrow in Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Virginia died of pneumonia in 2004 at age 78. Show less «

Virginia Capers's FILMOGRAPHY

ER - Season 15

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ER - Season 14

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ER - Season 13

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ER - Season 12

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ER - Season 11

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Kingpin - Season 1

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ER - Season 10

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The Practice - Season 8

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The District - Season 4

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ER - Season 9

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The Practice - Season 7

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The District - Season 3

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For Your Love - Season 5

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ER - Season 8

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The Practice - Season 6

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The District - Season 2

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The Hughleys - Season 4

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ER - Season 7

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The Practice - Season 5

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Popular - Season 1

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Popular - Season 2

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The District - Season 1

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For Your Love - Season 3

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Virginia Capers'S roles

Ruby Simpson
Ruby Simpson
Florence Sparrow
Florence Sparrow
Cora Mae, Secretary
Cora Mae, Secretary
Mrs. Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Grandma Hattie Banks
Grandma Hattie Banks