Rosetta LeNoire

Actress

Date of birth : 08/08/1911

Date of death : 03/17/2002

City of birth : New York City, New York, USA

Born Rosetta Olive Barton, Rosetta LeNoire was the goddaughter of famed tap dancer "Bojangles" Bill Robinson. She was in the landmark all-black version of "Macbeth," directed by Orson Welles in the 1930s. Former president Bill Clinton presented her with the National Medal of the Arts in 1999. Appeared in the movies Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), and the television series Family Matters (1989), in which she played the role of Estelle 'Mother' Winslow.