Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Ellis Ross

Tracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress, singer, television host and producer. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends and Black-ish. Ross owns Pattern Beauty, a hair-care line for curly hair.

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Summary Tracee Ellis RossTracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress, singer, television host and producer. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends and Black-ish. Ross owns Pattern Beauty, a hair-care line for curly hair. Ross is the daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and music business manager Robert Ellis Silber Stein. She has two half-brothers, Ross Arne in 1987 and Evan Ross in 1988. Ross attended Brown University, where she appeared in plays, and graduated in 1994 with a theatre degree. She later worked in the fashion industry, as a model and contributing fashion editor to Mirabella and New York magazines. Ross made her big-screen debut in 1996, playing a JewishAfrican-American woman in the independent feature film Far Harbor.

The following year, she debuted as host of The Dish, a Lifetime TV magazine series keeping tabs on popular culture. In 2007, Ross won an NAACP Image Award for her role in the film Life Support. In 2011, Ross appeared in four episodes of CSI: NY as the estranged wife of Laurence Fishburne’s character. In 2020, Ross starred and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film, The High Note. She appeared in the movie Labor Pains with her brother Evan Ross and Tyler Perry in 2009. In 2010, she appeared as a pregnant doctor in Private Practice as a mother-of-two. In 2013, she starred in an episode of Private Practice with Tyler Perry as the father of Tyler Perry’s character, Tyler Perry. In 2014, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-ISH titled Mixed-ish, which will air on ABC.