Yvette Hawkins

{{Short description|American actress (1940–1995)}} {{Infobox person |name = |birth_date = September 28, 1940

|birth_place = New York City, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1995|4|10|1940|9|28}}

|death_place = New York City, U.S. |occupation = Actress |alma_mater = |notable_works = |awards = }} '''Yvette Hawkins''' (September 28, 1940 – April 10, 1995) was an American actress on Broadway, on television, and in films.

==Early life== Yvette Hawkins was born in New York City.

==Career== Earlier in her career, Hawkins was a member of the New Lafayette Theatre in Harlem.<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 1144753|title = The New Lafayette Theatre. Anatomy of a Community Art Institution|journal = The Drama Review|volume = 16|issue = 4|pages = 46–55|last1 = Gant|first1 = Lisbeth|year = 1972|doi = 10.2307/1144753}}</ref> She was also involved with the Play-House of the Ridiculous, with John Vaccaro and Ronald Tavel.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O-1Kbxxw9fwC&q=Hawkins&pg=PA51|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|page=51|isbn=9781557836373|title=Ridiculous!: The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam|year=2005}}</ref>

Broadway credits for Hawkins included James Baldwin's ''The Amen Corner'' (1965), ''Lolita'' (1981), ''Checkmates'' (1988) and ''The Shadow Box'' (1994). She was also busy off-Broadway and in regional theatre, with a role in ''The Last Street Play'' with Morgan Freeman in 1977,<ref>Currie, Glenne, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11535162/the_last_street_play_1977/ "Cynical Street Gang Play Could Turn Into Classic"], ''Daily Courier'' (June 2, 1977): 18. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}.</ref> in a touring company of Ntozake Shange's ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf'' in 1978,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb8DAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22yvette+hawkins%22+actress&pg=PA55 |title=Chicago Proves a Ripe Town 'For Colored Girls'|magazine=Jet|date=January 29, 1978|page= 55}}</ref> and as James McDaniel's mother in Cheryl L. West's ''Before It Hits Home'' in 1992, among many others.<ref>Simon, John, [https://books.google.com/books?id=RG70vQU1Gp4C&dq=Yvette%20Hawkins%20actress&pg=PA70 "Precarious Paradise"], ''New York Magazine'' (March 23, 1992): 70–71.</ref>

Hawkins appeared in films such as ''Mighty Aphrodite'' (1995), ''Zebrahead'' (1992), ''Mississippi Masala'' (1991), ''Lean on Me'' (1989), and ''Nighthawks'' (1981). Her television acting credits ranged from soap operas ''As the World Turns'' and ''Guiding Light'' to dramas ''Cagney & Lacey'' and ''Law & Order''. She was also in the cast of ''Ghostwriter'', a children's mystery series. She was credited as a writer on the Children's Television Workshop health show ''Feelin' Good'' in the mid-1970s.<ref name="NYTObit">[https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/15/obituaries/yvette-hawkins-actress-was-54.html "Yvette Hawkins: Actress Was 54"], ''The New York Times'' (April 15, 1995): 9.</ref><ref>Mielke, Keith W., and James W. Swinehart, [http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED134227.pdf ''Evaluation of the 'Feeling Good' Television Series''] (Children's Television Workshop 1976): 412.</ref>

==Personal life== Yvette Hawkins was married briefly, to writer Sam Greenlee, in 1978.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YUIDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22yvette+hawkins%22+actress&pg=PA44 "People are Talking About..."], ''Jet'' (December 28, 1978): 44.</ref> She died from lung cancer in 1995, aged 54 years, in New York City.<ref name="NYTObit" />

==References== {{Reflist|30em}}

==External links== *[https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0370256/ Yvette Hawkins' listing] at IMDb. *[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/yvette-hawkins-72610 Yvette Hawkins' listing] at IBDB.

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