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Mona Hammond was born Mavis Chin to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother. She came to Britain in 1959 on a scholarship to work with an architects firm but was soon involved in black theatre productions with contemporaries such as Lloyd and Barry Reckord and Charles Hyatt, under the name Mona Chin. In 1959 she won a scholarship to RADA. Initially known as a stage actress - she played Lady Macbeth in an all-black version of the Shakespeare play at London's Roundhouse in 1970 - she went to co-found the Talawa Theatre Group with fellow actresses Yvonne Brewster and Carmen Munroe. The group performs black versions of plays written for whites as well as staging original Afro-Caribbean productions. In 2005 she was awarded an O.B.E. for services to drama. Having played in the TV soap 'Eastenders' for some years she has a recurring occasional role as a white vicar's outspoken ex-mother-in-law in radio soap 'The Archers.'- Producer
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Michael D. Olmos is a Los Angeles based, African American director who has helmed 4 feature films including FILLY BROWN starring Gina Rodriguez, THE GREEN GHOST starring Danny Trejo and Kuno Becker, WINDOWS ON THE WORLD starring Ryan Guzman and Edward James Olmos, and SPLINTER starring Tom Sizemore. In episodic television, Olmos has shadowed on shows including LOVECRAFT COUNTRY with director Yann DeManage, MAYANS with director Elgin Jones, GREY'S ANATOMY with director Bobby Roth, and FLASH FOWARD with director Michael Rhymer and Showrunner David S. Goyer. He recently participated in the DGA African-American steering Committee TV directing LEARNING TREE with mentors/directors including Jeff Byrd, Anthony Hemingway, and Rob Hardy. Along with his father Edward James Olmos, he runs Olmos Productions, an ABC/Disney based television production company with offices in the Old Annimation Building. He is repped by manager Larry Robinson at Avatar Entertainment and lawyer Derek Kroeger at Myman Greenspan.- Levi Roots was born on 24 June 1958 in Content, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. He is an actor, known for Rye Lane (2023), Death in Paradise (2011) and Anuvahood (2011).
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Liz Mitchell was born on 12 July 1952 in Clarendon, Jamaica. She is an actress, known for The Wayfarers (2005), Diskoteka Festival (2019) and Mammoth (2009). She is married to Thomas Pemberton.- Actress
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Millie Small was born on 6 October 1946 in Clarendon, Jamaica. She was an actress, known for Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), Spice World (1997) and I Knew Her Well (1965). She died on 5 May 2020 in London, England, UK.- Doreen Lawrence was born on 24 October 1952 in Clarendon, Jamaica. She was previously married to Neville Lawrence.
- Bobbie Donahue was born on 28 February 1937 in Clarendon, Texas, USA. She was married to Pat Donahue. She died on 1 October 2005 in Georgia, USA.
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Barrington Levy was born on 30 April 1964 in Clarendon, Jamaica. He is an actor and composer, known for The Harder They Fall (2021), Save the Last Dance (2001) and Good Boys (2019).- Mary Lane was born on 23 November 1935 in Clarendon, Arkansas, USA. She is married to Jeffrey Labon. She was previously married to Morris Pejoe.
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- Actor
Col. Clarence A. "Shoopy" Shoop was a reconnaissance pilot during World War II, flying the first photographic mission over Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day. In 1945, he was Base Commander at Muroc Army Field. Later a two-star general, Shoop was a vice president of Hughes Aircraft Company and the head of flight testing for Howard Hughes, as well as Commander-in-Chief of the Air National Guard of California until he died in 1968. He was married to actress Julie Bishop (born Jacqueline Wells), and they had two children: physician Steven Shoop and actress Pamela Susan Shoop.- Producer
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Todd Morgan was born on 17 March 1962 in Clarendon, Arkansas, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii - Rehearsal Concert (1973), Elvis Lives: The 25th Anniversary Concert, 'Live' from Memphis (2007) and Elvis: #1 Hit Performances (2007). He died on 1 March 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.- Saxa was born on 5 January 1930 in Croft's Hill, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, British Empiire. He was an actor, known for The Beat: Best Friend (1980), The Beat: Too Nice to Talk To (1980) and The Beat: Drowning (1981). He died on 3 May 2017 in Birmingham, England, UK.
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American poet and novelist Claude McKay was born on the West Indian island of Jamaica in 1890. His parents were poor farmworkers, and Claude got no formal education, although an older brother did give him some informal elementary education. At age 14 he went to the capital city of Kingston to make his fortune, and he eventually secured a job as an officer in the city police department. In his off time he began writing poetry using local dialects, and it wasn't long before he was considered to be the "poet laureate" of the colony, albeit unofficially. By age 22 he had two books of poems published. He was the first black Jamaican to receive a medal from the Institute of Arts and Sciences. The prize also came with a monetary award, and McKay used that money to move to the US, where he settled in Tuskegee, Alabama, and attended the world-famous Tuskegee Institute. After two years there he transferred to Kansas State College, where he studied agriculture. He was there only a few months before he decided that agriculture wasn't for him, and he used what money he had left over from the Institute prize to move to New York City. There he opened a restaurant, which went out of business after a short time, and had to take jobs waiting tables to earn money. He began to write poetry again, and several of his works were published under the name of "Eli Edwards".
He began to gather a following among critics and reviewers, and in 1918 he traveled to London, England, where he worked as a reporter on a pacifist newspaper. Upon his return to New York in 1919 he joined "The Liberator" as associate editor, a position he held until 1922. In that year he traveled again to Europe, first to the Soviet Union as an observer at a meeting of the Communist International, then to France, where he stayed for ten years. His health declined rapidly, and when he was told that he could possibly contract tuberculosis, he made arrangements to stay in the much healthier climes of the French Riviera in the sunny south of France. For a time he worked at the Nice studios of expatriate American director Rex Ingram, and then spent some time recovering his health in North Africa, mainly Morocco. It was while he was overseas that his first novel, "Home to Harlem", was published in the US and became a rousing success.
McKay became known as one of the leading figures of the "Negro literary renaissance" of the 1920s, and his poems and stories pulled no punches in their condemnation of the rampant racism that existed in the US in those times.
Claude McKay died in Chicago, IL, of congestive heart failure on May 22, 1948. He was 57 years old.- Daniel Simmons was born on 16 July 1940 in Clarendon County, South Carolina, USA. Daniel died on 17 June 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
- Kevin Weaver was born on 27 May 1976 in Clarendon, Arkansas, USA. He is an actor, known for Running with Scissors (2002).
- Rohan Davey was born on 14 April 1978 in Clarendon, Jamaica.
- Michael 'Ibo' Cooper was born on 14 January 1952 in Clarendon, Jamaica. He died on 12 October 2023 in Jamaica.
- Ernest Wilson was born in 1952 in Hayes, Clarendon, Jamaica. He died on 2 November 2021 in Kingston, Jamaica.
- Dennis Alcapone was born on 6 August 1947 in Clarendon, Jamaica.
- Don Dyer was born on 18 October 1933 in Clarendon, Arkansas, USA. He was married to Mary. He died on 12 May 2021 in Conway, Arkansas, USA.
- Shanya Carty was born on 14 January 1992 in Clarendon, Jamaica.
- Elfreda Jarrett was born on 7 March 1930 in Alston, Clarendon, Jamaica, British West Indies [now Jamaica]. She died on 21 September 2003 in London, England, UK.
- Kenny King was born on 7 March 1957 in Clarendon, Texas, USA.
- Kirkland Laing was born on 20 June 1954 in Clarendon, Jamaica. He is an actor, known for The Comic Strip Presents (1982).
- Soundtrack
Derrick Morgan was born on 27 March 1940 in Mocho, Clarendon, Jamaica.