That same year, she co-starred with Eddie Murphy in The Distinguished Gentleman. In 1992 she starred with Robert De Niro in the title role in Mistress.
Her first leading role in a film came as Denzel Washington's wife in The Mighty Quinn, released in 1989.
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In 1988 she starred in the Disney movie Oliver & Company, providing the voice of Rita.
6 on the Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart that same year.
In 1984, Ralph released her only album In the Evening, in which the title track peaked at No. Ralph began her career on the stage, and was nominated in 1982 for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Deena Jones in Dreamgirls. Many years later, she served as the commencement speaker at Rutgers for the Class of 2003. Initially she hoped to study medicine, but after dealing with cadavers in a pre-med class and winning a scholarship in a competition at the American College Theater Festival, she gave up medicine for the performing arts. Also that year she was named one of the top ten college women in America by Glamour magazine. At 19, Ralph was the youngest woman to ever graduate from Rutgers University during her time at Rutgers, Ralph was one of the earliest winners of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships awarded by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Earlier that year, she was crowned Miss Black Teen-age New York. She starred in a high-school production of the musical Oklahoma!, portraying Ado Annie. Ralph attended Uniondale High School in Uniondale, New York. She was raised between Mandeville, Jamaica, and Long Island. According to a DNA analysis, she descends partly from the Tikar people of Cameroon. She has a younger brother, actor and comedian Michael Ralph. Ralph was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Stanley Ralph, a college professor and Ivy Ralph O.D., a Jamaican fashion designer and the creator of the kariba suit. In 2016 she played Madame Morrible in Wicked on Broadway. Sheryl Lee Ralph released her first book Redefining Diva: Life Lessons from the Original Dreamgirl (2012) by Simon & Schuster. From 1996 to 2001, she starred as Dee Mitchell in the UPN sitcom Moesha, and from 2013 to 2015 as Maggie Turner in the Nick at Nite sitcom Instant Mom. On television, Ralph starred from 1986 to 1989 in the syndicated sitcom It's a Living, and later had the leading roles in the short-lived ABC sitcom New Attitude (1990), and CBS medical drama Street Gear (1995). Her other film credits include The Mighty Quinn (1989), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), and Deterrence (1999). In 1991, she received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her role in the drama film To Sleep with Anger. Ralph has appeared in a number of movies during her career. She made her screen debut in the 1977 comedy film A Piece of the Action, before landing her breakthrough role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Sheryl Lee Ralph (born December 30, 1955) is an American actress, singer, author, and activist.
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