Anne-Marie Johnson

Anne-Marie Johnson
Johnson in 2006
Born	(1960-07-18) July 18, 1960 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, impressionist
Years active	1971–present

Anne-Marie Johnson (born July 18, 1960) is an American actress and impressionist, who has starred in film and on television.^[1] She is known for her roles as Nadine Hudson Thomas on What's Happening Now!!, Aileen Lewis on Double Trouble, Althea Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night, and as a cast member on In Living Color during its final season.

Early life

Anne-Marie Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father is African-American and her mother is Multiracial-American. She graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in Acting and Theater.^[2]

Her first television appearance was as a contestant on the game show Card Sharks, where her name was listed as "Anne Johnson". She appeared on the game show Child's Play under her full name, as well as the pilot episode for the game show Body Language as Anne Marie Johnson, where she described herself as a "struggling actress".

Career

Johnson played the role of Aileen Lewis on the 1984–85 NBC comedy series Double Trouble. She played Raj's wife Nadine Hudson Thomas in the 1985–88 syndicated series What's Happening Now!!.

Cast as Althea Tibbs on the NBC/CBS series In the Heat of the Night, she became well known in this role, performing in series from 1988 through 1993.

While appearing on In the Heat of the Night, Johnson recorded the song "Little Drummer Boy" for the 1991 cast Christmas CD Christmas Time's A Comin'. Providing vocals behind her were country gospel group The Marksmen Quartet. The song was produced by co-stars Randall Franks and Alan Autry.

Johnson joined the cast of the Fox Network sketch comedy series In Living Color in its last season (1993–1994); afterwards she portrayed Alycia Barnett in one season of the Fox series Melrose Place (1995–1996). She had a recurring role on the CBS TV series JAG as Representative Bobbi Latham.

She has made guest appearances on other TV series, including Diff'rent Strokes, Hill Street Blues, Hunter, Babylon 5, Living Single, That's So Raven, Leverage, Girlfriends, The Parkers and Rock Me Baby. Other appearances include playing fashion designer Donna Cabonna on That's So Raven and TV reporter Janet King on I'm in the Band.

Other activities

Johnson was elected First National Vice President of the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. In 2010, she was succeeded by Ned Vaughn. She ran for president of the actors' union in 2009 on the Membership First ticket, but she lost to eventual winner Ken Howard.^[3]

Personal life

Johnson has been married to Martin Grey since 1996.

Filmography

References

External links

• Anne-Marie Johnson on IMDb