Mary Alice ~⚰️{Death} 
Mary Alice Smith {December 3, 1936 – July 27, 2022}
 known professionally as Mary Alice, was an American film, television, and stage actress ~ Dies at 85

The former Chicago schoolteacher won a Tony and an Emmy
 (for ‘I’ll Fly Away’) and is a member of the
 American Theatre Hall of Fame
Actress in Fences, Sparkle and The Matrix Revolutions 
She also played dorm director Lettie Bostic in 1988-89 on the first two seasons of NBC’s A Different World; the mother of Oprah Winfrey’s Mattie Michael in 1989 on the ABC miniseries
  The Women of Brewster Place; and the mother of
Harold Perrineau Jr.’s Augustus Hill in 2002 on HBO’s Oz