Ja'net DuBois

About Ja'net DuBois

Who is it?: Actress, Music Department, Soundtrack
Birth Day: August 05, 1938
Birth Place:  Brooklyn, New York, United States
Birth Sign: Virgo
Occupation: Actress singer songwriter dancer
Years active: 1962–present
Known for: Good Times, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, The PJs

Ja'net DuBois Net Worth

Ja'net DuBois was born on August 05, 1938 in  Brooklyn, New York, United States, is Actress, Music Department, Soundtrack. Ja'Net is a multi-talented and diverse performer. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY and began her career on Broadway. She has appeared in various plays, including "Golden Boy" with Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr., and "A Raisin in the Sun".Ja'Net moved onto TV roles, receiving a Peabody Award for a 1969 CBS children's movie J.T. (1969). She then appeared in a daytime serial, Love of Life (1951); she is the first African American actress to have a regular serial role.Ja'Net is best known for her role as the sexy, confident gossip, "Willona Woods", in the Norman Lear-created series, Good Times (1974). She composed and sang the theme song, "Movin' On Up", for another Lear series, The Jeffersons (1975). Ja'Net has appeared in many films, including the blaxploitation parody, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), as a tough and loving mother. She has also done voice-over work for which she received two Emmys.Ja'Net is the co-founder of the "Pan African Film & Arts Festival", which showcases global films about people of African descent and fine arts. She is a community activist whose DuBois Care Foundation's mission is to empower youth by supporting afterschool programs. Ja'Net is also a painter who regularly exhibits her work. She released a CD in 2008, "Hidden Treasures", which includes the well-known TV theme song, "Movin' On Up".
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💰Ja'net DuBois Net worth: $19 Million

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Biography/Timeline

1960

Born in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, or in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (sources differ), the daughter of Lillian Dubois, DuBois began her acting career in theater during the early 1960s, appearing in plays such as "Golden Boy" alongside Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr., and "A Raisin in the Sun". DuBois' early television acting credits include the 1969 television movie J.T. and the long–television soap opera Love of Life, on which her 1970–1972 role as Loretta Allen made her the first African–American female as a regular cast-member on a daytime serial.' In 1970, DuBois appeared in her first film, playing Vera in Diary of a Mad Housewife.

1974

Television Producer Norman Lear saw DuBois in a Lanford Wilson play The Hot l Baltimore at the Mark Taper Forum, which led to her being cast in the 1974–1979 CBS comedy series Good Times. DuBois recorded the album Again, Ja'Net DuBois, on her Peanuts and Caviar label, in 1983. DuBois appeared in former Good Times co-star Janet Jackson's 1987 "Control" music video as her mother. In 1992, she co-starred alongside Clifton Davis in And I Still Rise, a play written and directed by Maya Angelou. She co-starred in the films I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003), and on television in Moesha, The Steve Harvey Show, A Different World, and The Wayans Bros..

1987

DuBois has had at least two children: Rani Dubois, and Raj Kristo Gupta, who died of cancer in 1987 at age 26. Rani appeared on an episode of the 1970s sitcom What's Happening!!.

1995

In 1995, DuBois won a CableAce award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Lifetime movie "Other Women Children". In 2000, DuBois served as Grand mMrshal for the North Amityville Community Parade and Festival Day in Amityville, New York. She won won two Emmy Awards for her voiceover work on the animated program The PJs (1999). DuBois along with the cast of Good Times received The Impact Icon Award at the 2006 TV Land Awards.