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This article is about the actress. For the Dexter character, see Debra Morgan (Dexter character).
Debbi Morgan
Spouse(s)Donn Thompson (1997-present)
Charles S. Dutton (1989-1994)
Charles Weldon (?-?)

Deborah "Debbi" Morgan (born September 20, 1956) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. She may be best known for her role as Dr. Angie Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children, which she later reprised on Loving and The City. She returned to All My Children in January 2008 as Angie.

Biography

Personal life

Morgan was born in Dunn, North Carolina, the daughter of Lora, a teacher, and George Morgan, Sr., a butcher.[1] She moved to New York City when she was three months old. Her father died of leukemia when she was eight, and she was raised by her mother who worked as a secretary and a typing instructor at Junior High School 80 in the Bronx. Morgan attended parochial school. She is the ex-wife of actor Charles S. Dutton.

Career

Morgan's earliest recurring role was on What's Happening!! from 1976 to 1977 as Diane Harris. In 1979, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Alex Haley's great-aunt Elizabeth Harvey on the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, and her guest-starring role as Curtis Jackson's ex-girlfriend turned prostitute on The White Shadow. Her most famous role was Angie Baxter Hubbard on the soap opera All My Children, a role she originally played from 1982 to 1990. Her portrayal of Angie struck a chord with many black viewers across America; Angie and her love interest, Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams), became the first African-American "supercouple" on the daytime serials. Morgan won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1989.

After leaving All My Children, Morgan played the role of Chantal Marshall on the NBC soap opera, Generations, replacing actress Sharon Brown and remained with the show until it ended. She then reprised her role as Angie on Loving and The City. From 1997 to 1998, she played Dr. Ellen Burgess on Port Charles. In the early 2000s, she played lead character Lora Gibson, opposite Lea Thompson, on the Lifetime series For the People. She also played the role of The Seer in the fourth season of Charmed.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Morgan became a de facto symbol for the possibilities for black women as all of her soap opera roles involved her playing a successful doctor. In the late 1990s, she garnered much acclaim from movie critics for her portrayal of clairvoyant Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in director Kasi Lemmons' Eve's Bayou. For her portrayal, she won a Chicago Film Critics Association Award and an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for an Image Award.

Morgan, along with Darnell Williams, returned to All My Children in January 2008. Both actors have signed long term contracts.[2]

Television credits

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.filmreference.com/film/97/Debbi-Morgan.html
  2. ^ Daytime's First Black Supercouple Returns to AMC
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