Sex And The City guest star Lynda Gravatt dies at 77: Broadway actress was also on Law & Order: SVU and Hoop Life as Viola Davis shares tribute
Versatile stage and film actress Lynda Gravatt has died at the age of 77, her family announced on Wednesday.
The actress was best known for her roles on Broadway in productions such as The Old Settler, Crowns, Intimate Apparel, Miss Witherspoon, The Little Foxes and The House That Will Not Stand.
The New Yorker was also the subject of research for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in 2008.
And Lynda has also starred in several TV shows over the decades.
Gravatt had guest roles in Sex And The City opposite Sarah Jessica Parker (she played a waiter in the 2002 episode) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Judge Tamara Kingston alongside Mariska Hargitay.
The actress, who recently appeared in the series East New York, was regularly seen in The Hoop Life from 1999 to 2000.
Versatile stage and film actress Lynda Gravatt has died at the age of 77, her family announced on Wednesday. The actress was best known for her roles on Broadway in productions such as The Old Settler, Crowns, Intimate Apparel. Seen in 2015
Her friend Viola Davis shared a tribute: ‘Nooooo!!! Oh no!!! I loved you in every way. Great to work with you, laugh with you, share your infinite wisdom. Rest in peace my friend. I love you’
Other TV shows she worked on include The Good Wife, 30 Rock, Elementary, Madam Secretary and Ramy.
The Harlem-born stage actor played a judge in the Jennifer Aniston film The Bounty Hunter in 2010.
And she played Vernita Wells in the Denzel Washington film Roman J. Israel, Esq in 2017.
Her son David Gravatt told the story The Hollywood Reporter that she died last Friday in a hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Her friend Viola Davis shared a tribute: ‘Nooooo!!! Oh no!!! I loved you in every way. Great to work with you, laugh with you, share your infinite wisdom. Rest in peace my friend. I love you.”
Her death was confirmed by the National Black Theater in an Instagram post shared on Saturday.
“When I have a job, I’m happy,” she told Backstage in a 2019 interview. “I’ve always wanted to be the ingénue, but I tend to get cast as the pragmatic grandmother, even when I was young.”
Director Dan Sullivan and playwright Lynn Nottage (C) with actors Corey Stoll, Lauren Velez, Viola Davis, Arija Bareikis, Lynda Gravatt and Russell Hornsby attend Intimate Apparel’s 10th Anniversary Reunion Reading in 2014 in New York City
She had a famous biological father: tap dancer and comedian James ‘Stump’ Cross.
The star was raised by adoptive parents.
Her career began at the age of four when she starred in The King And I on Broadway.
And the toddler performed in recitals at Carnegie Hall when she was nine.
Gravatt attended Howard University, where she graduated in 1971. During her time on campus, she appeared in several plays.
Gravatt at the 2015 Steinberg Playwright Awards at Lincoln Center Theater in New York