She played Pam on "The Cosby Show". See Erika Alexander now at 52 years old.
The actor went to another successful sitcom and a career behind the camera.
When she was 21,Erika Alexander was interpreted as Pam TuckerThe Cosby Show, appearing for the first time in the seventh season in 1990 and remaining with the show to the 1992 final.The Huxables When her mother heads for California to take care of a family member, and even if he takes time to integrate, she finally becomes another member of the family. While the role is memorable, Alexander quickly passed more emblematic, playing from 1993 to 1998Single livingAlso fast, always hungry and fiercely independent Maxine Shaw. Read the rest to see what she has been doing since her days with the Huxables and her years to live with her single friends.
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She is still an occupied actor.
After his double role as a NAACP Image reward onSingle living, Alexander continued to act on both television and cinema. Some of his notable television projects include main and recurring roles inStreet time,,Judge Amy,,Flight,,Low winter sun,,Beyond,,Black LightningandWu-Tang: an American sagaas well as episodes ofUh,,Criminal minds,,Gray anatomy,,Queen sugar, andInsecure. She is currently playing the recurring character Barb on the Starz seriesRun the world, which was renewed for a second season.
On the big screen, Alexander appeared in54,,Get out, andAmerican refugee, among many other films. She has two projects on the way: a feature film entitledWild flowerand a short film entitledAbaddon.
With the career she sculpted, Alexander has always been frank on the way she thinks that black men in Hollywood have more opportunities than black women. She noted in a 2019 interview withThe root thisShe felt in typast afterSingle living, comparing his situation to that ofWill be Black-smith, which was thrown into a myriad of different roles leavingThe prince of Bel-Air.
She is also a producer, director and writer.
Alexander plays an active role in filling some of the shortcomings she sees in industry by producing and leading her own projects. She is an executive producer of the web seriesThe BFF Chroniclesand produced the 2020 documentaryJohn Lewis: Good Difficulty. Alexander recently made his director's debut (alongside the co -directorWhitney Dow) with another documentary,The big return, which was presented at first at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022 and should be wider next year. The film follows the implementation of a bill for repairs for the descendants of the slaughter blacks who were adopted in Evanston, Illinois.
"The fundamental systems and the foundations of America have been built to hinder, attack and torment blacks. I am only one more person, in a long line of black American citizens, trying to dismantle these systems," said declared Alexander Women in Hollywood. "I use my skills as a storyteller to help create a convincing conversation, clarify the visionaries who turn there and energize the movement."
In addition to the narration through the film, Alexander also works in other media. She hostsThe podcastFind Tamika, on a woman from South Carolina who disappeared in 2004, and she wrote comics and graphic novels, including oneBuffy against vampiresSpin-offs series calledGilesAnd the science fiction seriesConcrete park, that it is also transformed into a NFT project.
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It is an activist.
Alexander is behind several initiatives that support black actors and creators in Hollywood and are fighting for racial justice. Even his production company,Color farm media, share these objectives. "As a creator, I recognize that entertaining stories, when they are socially conscious and carefully constructed, have the capacity to create an impact and a significant change," she explains on her website. "As co-founder of Color Farm Media, I am on a mission to bring greater equity, inclusion and a diversified representation to the media and electoral policy."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
She also co -foundedGive us the ballot, which supports the black and brown community organizers who emerge the vote. And she is on the board of directors of the organizationA fair salary, who recommends on behalf of the employees of the services. In 2020, the actor and the filmmaker testified duringA Congress Audience On "diversity in America: the representation of people of color in the media". And Alexander often publishes on the policy and the causes in which she believesOn his Twitter page.
She thinksFriendswas aSingle livingKiat-off.
In 2020,David Schwimmer said in an interview withThe Guardian that he knows his showFriends was not very progressive And did not go to the test of time. He added that any type of restart should include a entirely black or fully Asian distribution.Alexander tweeted In response, "Hey @Davidschwimmer @friendsstv - Ground floor Salusez Seal that you have never heard biting #livinglage? We invented the model! Yr Welcome Bro.;)."
She extended the subject inA test for Zora, writing: "What is ironic is that David spoke to his conscience of white male privilege. What is unhappy is that he created an interesting example by doing, because the spectacle in which he was not the original, it was a blow off. So there can never be blackFriends, because the friends were all whiteSingle living.
Many fans have compared the two programs over the years and wondered whyFriendsComparatively received so much more attention, money and praise. "[O] ur being marketed with a mainly black audience told brands that we were less than and that we never command a higher evaluation," wrote Alexander. "But it's not just show biz, it's America."
