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Anna Deavere Smith Is Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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Earned A Bachelor's Degree At Beaver College
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Went to the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco where she earned an M.F.A Degree
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She Started working a drama teacher at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh
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Anna's First Role on the big screen was in the movie Soup For One Where she played the role of Deborah
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Anna's had her first Tv appearance in the soap opera All My Children where she played the role of the character named Hazel
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Started working on her first play called Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Other Identities where the play talks about the racial tensions in a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York
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Anna Worked on her next Play called Twilight Los Angels which was based on the riots that took place after four policemen beat Rodney King
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Published her first book called Talk To Me: Travels In Media and Politics
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In the 200 Anna was a professor at the Tish School For The Arts
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In 2000 Anna continued to act on TV when she had a recurring role on the television show The West Wing
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Premiered her one-woman show play called Let Me Down Easy
where she play over 20 characters and talks about the vulnerability of the human body -
Anna had created a new play called The Arizona Project which was a one-woman play that talked about a woman's relationship to the law and justice.
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Anna was an Artist in residence with the Center for American Progress
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Anna Had Landed another recurring role on the show Nurse Jackie
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In 2015 the National Endowment for the Humanities had selected Anna for the Jefferson Lecture which is considered as the highest achievement in humanities
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Anna had created another One Woman Play called Notes from the Field where the play talked about subjects such as prisons and kids in schools who are poor and less fortunate
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Two years later she premiered the play, HBO had broadcasted her her play as a television movie which also starred in
