The Beauty of Retrospect: Cynthia King Week, Part Three

Cynthia King was in such great demand as a model, some advertisers couldn't get enough of her. Look at this photo from a cigarette ad s...

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

The Beauty of Retrospect, March Actress Edition: Tracee Ellis Ross

When I last featured Tracee Ellis Ross, the daughter of singer Diana Ross (an earlier honoree on the is blog, who turned 75 yesterday) and soul-music manager Robert Silberstein (not an earlier honoree on this blog! :-D), in November 2014, she was starring as Rainbow Johnson in the ABC-TV series "black-ish."  I'm happy to report that the series is still on the air and that Mademoiselle Ross is still in it.


Also, a new spinoff of "black-ish," "grown-ish", is now on ABC's sister cable channel Freeform.  The spinoff stars Yara Shahidi, who played Rainbow's daughter Zoey on "black-ish," in the same role, only she's off at college.  Tracee Ellis Ross makes occasional appearances on the spinoff.

It's hard to imagine a woman who's Diana Ross's daughter playing - nay, being - a woman old enough to have a child in college.  I feel so old . . ..  

You've probably also seen Miss Ross in commercials for United Airlines' United Explorer credit card.  That's what's in her wallet.  Watch out, Jennifer Garner! :-D

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