Phylicia Rashad Net Worth: $30 Million (approx.)
| Net Worth: | $30 Million (approx.) |
| Date of Birth: | Jun 19, 1948 |
| Age: | 74 years |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
| Profession: | Actor, Singer, Theatre Director, Voice Actor |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Phylicia Rashad net worth is around $30 million. Phylicia Rashad is a famous Tony Award winning actress and singer.
Phylicia Rashad is well known for her performance as Clair Huxtable on the hit NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show.” Later, Phylicia re-teamed with Bill Cosby to play Ruth Lucas on the CBS sitcom “Cosby.” Rashad has appeared in many movies and on Broadway, including in “Into the Woods,” “Jelly’s Last Jam,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” and “A Raisin in the Sun,” for which she won a Tony Award.
Phylicia Rashad Net Worth 2023:
Phylicia Rashad is a famous American actress, singer and director. Phylicia Rashad net worth is around $30 million.
Phylicia Rashad Biography:
| Born: | Phylicia Ayers-Allen June 19, 1948 (age 74) Houston, Texas, U.S. |
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| Alma mater: | Howard University (BFA) |
| Occupation: | Actress, singer, director |
| Years active: | 1972–present |
| Spouse(s): | William Lancelot Bowles Jr.(m. 1972; div. 1975)Victor Willis(m. 1978; div. 1982)Ahmad Rashad (m. 1985; div. 2001) |
| Children: | 2, including Condola Rashad |
| Relatives: | Debbie Allen (sister) |
Phylicia Rashad was born as Phylicia Ayers-Allen in 1948 in Houston, Texas. Phylicia’s father, Andrew, was an orthodontist, while her mother, Vivian, is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet, artist, playwright, and scholar.
Phylicia has three siblings: jazz musician brother Tex, actress and choreographer Debbie Allen, and real estate banker Hugh. Growing up, the family shifted to Mexico, making Rashad fluent in Spanish. For college, Phylicia Rashad attended Howard University, graduating magna cum laude with a BFA in 1970.
Phylicia Rashad career:
After releasing the disco concept album “Josephine Superstar” in 1978, Phylicia Rashad came to be recognized for her Broadway stage work in the 1980s.
Phylicia Rashad Theatre career:
Among her early acting roles, she played Deena Jones in “Dreamgirls,” serving as the understudy of Sheryl Lee Ralph, and was a munchkin in “The Wiz” for almost four years.
Phylicia Rashad appeared in Broadway productions of Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” and George C. Wolfe’s “Jelly’s Last Jam.”
In 2004, Phylicia Rashad hit a new career peak when she starred in a revival of “A Raisin in the Sun.” For her portrayal of Lena Younger, Phylicia Rashad became the first black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2005, she was nominated for the same award for her performance in August Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean.”
Phylicia Rashad’s other Broadway credits include Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” costarring James Earl Jones and Anika Noni Rose, and Melvin Van Peebles’ “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death.”
Phylicia has also starred in many off-Broadway productions, including “Bernarda Alba,” “Cymbeline,” and “The Duplex” at the Lincoln Center; “Helen” and “Everybody’s Ruby” at the Public Theater; “The Sirens” at the Manhattan Theatre Club; and several productions with the Negro Ensemble Company, such as “Puppet Play,” “Weep Not For Me,” and “In an Upstate Motel.” Additionally, Rashad has done regional theatre at such venues as Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre and Washington, DC’s Arena Stage.
Phylicia Rashad Theatre Directing
In 2007, Phylicia Rashad tried her hand at directing with the Seattle Repertory Theatre’s production of “Gem of the Ocean.” Later, in 2014, she directed a revival of August Wilson’s “Fences” at Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre. Phylicia Rashad continued to focus on August Wilson’s work in 2016, when she directed the playwright’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum.
Phylicia Rashad Television Career
After playing a regular role on the ABC soap opera “One Life to Live,” Phylicia Rashad got a television role in 1984 on the NBC sitcom “The Cosby Show.” The actress played attorney Clair Huxtable, wife of obstetrician Cliff Huxtable, played by Bill Cosby, and mother of five children. The show ran until 1992, and earned Phylicia Rashad two Emmy Award nominations. During this time, Rashad appeared in the television movies “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” “False Witness,” “Polly,” and “Jailbirds.” She also appeared as Clair Huxtable in four episodes of the sitcom “A Different World.”
In 1996, Bill Cosby returned to television with the CBS sitcom “Cosby”; the actor called RasPhylicia Rashad had to play his character’s wife, Ruth Lucas. The program ran until 2000. Later, Phylicia Rashad appeared on an episode of “Everybody Hates Chris” and on three episodes of the detective series “Psych.” In 2008, she reprised her Tony-winning role as Lena Younger in a television film adaptation of “A Raisin in the Sun.” Later TV credits have included “The Cleveland Show,” “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” “When We Rise,” “This Is Us,” “Station 19,” and a recurring role on “Empire.”
Phylicia Rashad Movies Career
On the big screen, Phylicia Rashad made her starring debut in the 1996 period drama “Once Upon a Time… When We Were Colored.” This was followed by the comedy “Loving Jezebel” in 1999. In 2010, Rashad appeared in three movies: the romcom “Just Wright,” with Queen Latifah and Common; the Halle Berry drama “Frankie and Alice”; and Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls,” which had an ensemble cast starring Janet Jackson, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, and Anika Noni Rose.
Rashad worked with Perry again in 2012 on his romantic drama “Good Deeds.” Later films credits include “Gods Behaving Badly,” as well as the sports drama “Creed” and its sequel, “Creed II.” In 2020, Phylicia Rashad was in Tyler Perry’s “A Fall from Grace,” the horror film “Black Box,” Netflix’s fantasy musical “Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey,” and Disney/Pixar’s “Soul.”
Phylicia Rashad Husband:
Phylicia Rashad has been married three times. The first marriage was in 1972 to dentist William Lancelot Bowles Jr.; the couple had one son, and divorced in 1975. Next, in 1978, Phylicia Rashad married Victor Willis, the original lead singer of the Village People. They divorced in 1982.
In 1985, Phylicia Rashad married former NFL play and sportscaster Ahmad Rashād, whose surname she adopted. Ahmad proposed to her during a pregame show for a televised Thanksgiving Day football game. They had a daughter, Condola after a year. They divorced in 2001.
Phylicia Rashad Interesting Facts:
Rashad is a vegeterian.