Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and the star of Wilma (1977), has died. She was 74.
The Fountain Theatre introduced Finney’s demise on social media writing in an Instagram publish, “With damaged hearts, we share the unhappy information that director Shirley Jo Finney, a beloved member of our Fountain Household, handed away yesterday after an extended sickness.”
A number of the productions that Finney directed included CITIZEN: An American Lyric, Coronary heart Music, Within the Crimson and Brown Water, The Brothers Dimension, The Ballad of Emmett Until, Yellowman, Central Avenue and From the Mississippi Delta.
Finney had been battling with most cancers for eight months, in accordance with a report from the Los Angeles Occasions.
Finney starred within the tv movie Wilma, a biopic about observe star Wilma Rudolph and the obstacles she confronted to win three gold medals within the 1960 Olympics. Within the tv film, Finney starred reverse Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Denzel Washington and extra.
In tv, Finney is credited on IMDB as having directed three episodes of the Brandy-starring sitcom Moesha. On the performing aspect, her first credit score was in an episode of The New Temperatures Rising Present in 1973.
Different credit included Police Lady (1974), Police Story (1973), Nashville Lady (1976), The Blue Knight (1976), Mork & Mindy (1979), Lou Grant (1978), Hill Road Blues (1985), Amen (1987), Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987), Evening Courtroom (1989), and plenty of extra.
