Ethel Ayler

Ethel Ayler is a veteran AfricanAmerican character actress with a career spanning over five decades.

Ayler was born in Whistler, Alabama in 1934. In 1957, she made her offBroadway debut in the Langston Hughes musical, Simply Heavenly. Later that year, she debuted on Brodway in the multiple Tony Awardnominated musical, Jamaica as an understudy for Lena Horne .

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