Name: Delloreese Patricia Early
Born: 6 July 1931
P lace: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Spouse: Franklin Lett
Children: Deloreese, James, Franklin, and Dominique.
Trivia:
Has been married 3 times and has 4 children.
Is an ordained minister and performed the wedding ceremony of TV co-star Roma Downey.
Della is also the godmother of Roma's daughter.
In the 1950's she was a singer and had three Top 40 hits.
Has Cherokee ancestry.
Della Reese
has long been known as a singer, actress, performer and minister. She now joins Faith
in Action as the national spokesperson – making it her personal mission to spread
the word about the network of free, interfaith, community-based services. She is also
committed to encouraging more people to volunteer to help their neighbors in need.
Singer
Della Reese began
singing in church in Detroit, Mich., when she was 6 years old, and as a teenager she
toured with the gospel great Mahalia Jackson. Reese formed the Meditation Singers at the
age of 18, performed as a vocalist with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, and began recording
her own records in the 1950’s. In 1987, she was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best
Female Soloist in Gospel Music. Most recently, she has recorded an album based on
her 27-city tour with her revue, "Some of My Best Friends Are the Blues."
Actress/Performer
Reese’s television career began long
before her success with Touched by an Angel, an inspiring program which started on
CBS in 1994. Reese was the first female to host The Tonight Show and served as the
first African American woman talk show host with her own nationally syndicated show, Della,
in 1969-1970.
She has appeared
in numerous television series, including Sanford and Son, The A-Team, Crazy
Like a Fox, and Picket Fences. She starred as a series regular in Charlie
& Company and in The Royal Family. Reese also starred in the
made-for-television movies Emma's Wish with Joanna Kerns, The Secret Path
with Ossie Davis, The Moving
of Sophia Myles and the mini-series Mama Flora's Family. In addition, she received an Emmy nomination for the television
movie called Nightmare in Badham County.
Reese was the voice of Eema, one of the lead characters in the Disney
animated feature Dinosaur. In 1994, she received a star on the Hollywood
Walk of Fame. For the past six years, she has
been the recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television
Drama Series for her role as Tess in Touched by an Angel.
Faith leader and more
In addition to
lending her support to the Faith in Action national movement, Reese is an ordained
minister with an active congregation in Los Angeles, Calif. Her best-selling
autobiography, Angels Along the Way, is published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Most
recently she has written a series of inspirational books, one for each month of the year,
which include What Is This Thing Called Love? and Strength Is the Energy of God.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband,
producer Franklin Thomas Lett
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