- Born
- Birth nameTracee Joy Silberstein
- Height5′ 7½″ (1.71 m)
- Tracee Joy Silberstein, known professionally as Tracee Ellis Ross, is an American actress, singer, television host, producer and director. She is known for her lead roles in the television series Girlfriends (2000-2008) and Black-Ish (2014-2022). She owns Pattern Beauty, a hair-care line for curly hair.
She is the daughter of actress and Motown recording artist Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein. She began acting in independent films and variety series. She hosted the pop-culture magazine The Dish on Lifetime. From 2000 to 2008 she played the starring role of Joan Clayton in the UPN/CW comedy series Girlfriends, for which she received two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. She also has appeared in the films Hanging Up (2000), I-See-You.Com (2006), and Daddy's Little Girls (2007), before returning to television playing Dr. Carla Reed on the BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines (2011), for which she received her third NAACP Image Award.
Since 2014, Ross has played the starring role of Dr. Rainbow Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-Ish . Her work on it has earned her three NAACP Image Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy. She has also received nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards and five Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. In 2019, she co-created a prequel spin-off of Black-Ish titled Mixed-Ish. In 2020, she starred in and recorded the soundtrack album for the musical film The High Note.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesChudney Ross(Sibling)Ross Naess(Half Sibling)Fred Ross(Grandparent)Arthur 'T-Boy' Ross(Aunt or Uncle)Barbara Ross(Aunt or Uncle)Rita Ross(Aunt or Uncle)Fred Ross Jr.(Aunt or Uncle)Wilbert 'Chico' Ross(Aunt or Uncle)Evan Ross(Half Sibling)Rhonda Ross Kendrick(Half Sibling)
- Daughter of Diana Ross and Robert Ellis Silberstein.
- Grew up in New York, Paris, and Switzerland.
- Won her 'black-ish' Golden Globe Award at age 44, 44 years after her mother, Diana Ross, won her own Golden Globe for Lady Sings the Blues (1972).
- Working as a model when she was younger, she was photographed by highly-regarded fashion photographers Herb Ritts, Peter Lindberg, Francesco Scavullo, and Mario Testino.
- As a pre-teen she was once photographed and painted by Andy Warhol.
- About Madonna: "I was in love with the Hindu moment and her yoga body. I used to think 40 was old. Now I think: Hey, 40's hot!" (In Style magazine, Sept/2006).
- Black-ish (2014) - $200,000 Per Episode
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