Debbi Morgan Biography

Deborah "Debbi" Morgan (born September 20, 1956) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Dr. Angie Hubbard on the ABC soap opera All My Children, and for her role as The Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons of Charmed.

Morgan joined the cast of The Young and the Restless as Yolanda "Harmony" Hamilton on October 7, 2011, exactly two weeks after All My Children aired its final television episode on September 23, 2011.

Personal life

Morgan was born in Dunn, North Carolina, the daughter of Lora, a teacher, and George Morgan, Jr., a butcher. She has a younger sister, Terry. 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. Debbi Morgan has been married 4 times: to Charles Weldon from 1980 to 1984; to actor Charles S. Dutton from 1989 to 1994, and photographer Donn Thompson from 1997 to 2000. She has been married to Jeffrey Winston since June 2009.

Career

Morgan's earliest film role was in the movie Mandingo in 1975. She played the role of Dite. Morgan's earliest recurring role was on What's Happening!! from 1976 to 1977 as Diane Harris, and also appeared on Good Times. 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 January 1982 to July 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. In 1989, Morgan won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (which she shares with Santa Barbara actress Nancy Lee Grahn). She and Williams also co-hosted a music video show titled New York Hot Tracks in the mid-1980s.

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 Hubbard on ABC's Loving in 1991. In 1995, she brought the same character to The City (a retooled version of Loving), making Morgan one of the few performers to portray the same character on three different soap operas.

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 and fifth seasons 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. In May 2009 and 2011, she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Also in 2011, Morgan signed a contract to appear on The Young and the Restless after All My Children concludes its run on ABC.

On September 14, 2012, Morgan was let go from her role as Harmony Hamilton on the CBS Soap, The Young and the Restless.

Morgan will be appearing in the new internet version of All My Children, reprising her role of Angie Hubbard. The series will premiere on iTunes, Hulu and Hulu Plus on April 29, 2013.

Filmography

Year	Titl	Role	Notes
Film
1971	Cry Uncle	Olga Winter
1974	Amazing Grace	Morgan State student	uncredited
1975	Mandingo	Dite	as Debbie Morgan
1976	The Monkey Hu$tle	Vi
1979	Love's Savage Fury	Opal	as Deborah Morgan
1981	Thornwell	Katherine	as Deborah Morgan-Weldon
1984	The Jesse Owens Story	Ruth Solomon Owens
1987	Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story	Marcia Hickson
1992	Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Framing	Maureen Gilman
1997	Eve's Bayou	Mozelle Batiste Delacroix	Won Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Female (1998) Chicago Film Critics Association Awards Best Supporting Actress (1998) Nominated Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (1998) NAACP Image Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (1998)
1998	Asunder	Lauren Hubbs
1999	She's All That	Ms. Rousseau
	The Hurricane	Mae Thelma Carter	Nominated NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture (2000)
	Spawn 3: Ultimate Battle	Granny Blake (voice)
2000	Love & Basketball	Nona McCall
	The Runaway	Reba Monroe
2004	Woman Thou Art Loosed	Twana
2005	Back in the Day	Mrs. Packer
	Coach Carter	Tonya
2006	Relative Strangers	Mrs. Manoire
	Color of the Cross	Mary
Television
1976	What's Happening!!	Diane Harris	6 episodes, 1976-1977
	Good Times	Ellen/Samantha	2 episodes, 1976-1977
1979	The Love Boat	Stephine Jackson	1 episode
	Roots: The Next Generations	Elizabeth Harvey	TV mini-series
	The White Shadow	Delores Raye	1 episode
1980	The Incredible Hulk	Jody	1 episode
	Trapper John, M.D	Denise/Linda	2 episodes, 1980-1982, as Deborah Morgan-Weldon
1981	Behind the Screen	Lynette Porter	unknown episodes, 1981-1982
	Sanford	Charlene	1 episode
1982-1990, 2008 - 2011, 2013-	All My Children	Dr. Angela Baxter Hubbard	1982 - September 2011 Won Daytime Emmy Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (1989) Nominated Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series (1986) Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2009) Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (2011) Won Gracie Allen Awards Outstanding Female Lead - Daytime Drama (2009) Won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (2009,2010) Nominated NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series (2011) Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Younger Lead Actress (1986) Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress: Daytime (1990)
1983-1991	ABC Afterschool Specials	Celia/Jennifer Sanders	2 episodes
1990-1991	Generations	Chantal Marshall #2	unknown episodes
1991	A Different World	Lisa Westin	1 episode
1992	The Cosby Show	Tracy	2 episodes
	Herman's Head	Melodie	1 episode
	Roc	Linda (3 episodes, 1992-1993
1993-1995	Loving	Dr. Angela "Angie" Hubbard
1995-1997	The City	Dr. Angela Baxter Hubbard Harrison Foster	Nominated NAACP Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
1997-1998	Port Charles	Dr. Mary Eleanor 'Ellen' Burgess	unknown episodes
	General Hospital
1999	Spawn	Granny Blake (voice)	3 episodes
	Any Day Now	unknown	2 episodes, 1999-2000
2000	City of Angels	unknown	1 episode
	Boston Public	Superintendent Marsha Shinn	4 episodes, 2000-2001
	Strong Medicine	Chloe Simons/Cora Simons	2 episodes, 2000-2001
2001	Soul Food	Lynette Van Adams	3 episodes, 2001-2002 Won NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (2002)
	Providence	Marilyn Chase	1 episode
	The Practice	Marsha Shinn	1 episode
2002	Charmed	The Seer	8 episodes, 2002-2003
	For the People	District Attorney Lora Gibson	unknown episodes
2004	Touching Evil	Aileen Mooney	1 episode
2006	Ghost Whisperer	Mrs Riley	1 episode
	The Bold and the Beautiful	District Attorney Jennifer Tartaro	14 episodes, 2006-2007
	Close to Home	Lizette Carter	1 episode
2011	The Young and the Restless	Yolanda "Harmony" Hamilton	Debuted: October 7, 2011

See also

• Jesse Hubbard and Angie Baxter