Tracee Ellis Ross
Tracee Joy Silberstein (born October 29, 1972), known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Black-ish (2014–2022) receiving nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the latter. She is the daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein. She began acting in independent films and variety series. She hosted the pop-culture magazine The Dish on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008 she played the starring role of Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends, for which she received two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in the films Hanging Up (2000), I-See-You.Com (2006), and Daddy's Little Girls (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011), for which she received her third NAACP Image Award. From 2014 to 2022, Ross starred as Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series, Black-ish. Her work on it has earned her six NAACP Image Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has also received nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-ish titled Mixed-ish. In 2020, she starred in and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film The High Note. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tracee Ellis Ross, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
86 acting credits · 2 directing credits
Acting · 86
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Private Practice
2007
Conan
2010
Black Mirror
2011
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Project Runway
2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hot Ones
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
black-ish
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Girlfriends
2000
Tamron Hall
2019
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
grown-ish
2018
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Oscars
1953
People's Choice Awards
1975
Chelsea
2016
Broad City
2014
Lip Sync Battle
2015
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
2010
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
To Tell the Truth
2016
American Music Awards
1974
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Entertainment Tonight
1981
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Desus & Mero
2019
mixed-ish
2019
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
2024
The Gong Show
2017
Hart to Heart
2021
Busy Tonight
2018
The Premise
2021
American Fiction
2023
Little
2019
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Second Time Around
2004
Reed Between the Lines
2011
Candy Cane Lane
2023
Daddy's Little Girls
2007
Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television
2025
The High Note
2020
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
The Hair Tales
2022
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
2023
Hanging Up
2000
Labor Pains
2009
This Changes Everything
2019
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Kanye West: College Dropout [Video Anthology]
2005
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Adele One Night Only
2021
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
2022
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
2023
Five
2011
Sue
1998
The Grammys
1959
I-See-You.com
2006
Being Eddie
2025
Solo Traveling with Tracee Ellis Ross
2025
Far Harbor
1996
The Family McMullen
2025
Growing Up Animal
2021
Life Support
2007
The Disney Family Singalong
2020
Sesame Street: Elmo's Playdate
2020
Cold Copy
2024
That Click
2019
Invisible Beauty
2023
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
2020
A Fare to Remember
1999
Standing Room Only: Diana Ross
1980
Race Against Fear
1998
Waffles + Mochi's Holiday Feast
2021
The Runaway Bunny
2021