Angela E. Gibbs or Angela Elayne Gibbs is an actress, a writer, and a filmmaker whose career spans the stage, the big screen, and TV, and who has been in the game since before people who we can call middle-aged were born. In this post, we are going to look at the life, family, and career of Angela E. Gibbs.
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How old is she?
Angela Elayne Gibbs also known as Angela Mills and Angela Gibbs-Mills was born on 17 April 1954, in Detroit, Michigan. She was born into a family of entertainers. Her mother is an actress with more than half a century in the came and she had an aunt who also made a living in Hollywood named Susie Gibbs.
Angela E. Gibbs is 67 years old.
Who is her mother
Angela’s mother is named Marla Gibbs. an actress, singer, comedian, and producer whose career is over fifty years and counting. She is most popular for her appearance in the CBS hit comedy “The Jeffersons” for which she was variously nominated for the Emmys.
She has more NAACP Image Awards than she can count and well-acclaimed roles in powerful movies in the ’90s and the early 2000s and beyond including Tyler Perry’s “Medea’s Witness Protection” (2012). She is described by IMDB as an actress “armed with an acid dry wit and a full arsenal of sarcasm and sass” and this sounds like an understatement when put side by side her legendary career.
Marla Gibbs is also a singer with full-length albums to her name.
Angela’s father is called Jordan Gibbs and she has two siblings, Dorian and Joseph
Career, husband, other facts
Gibbs’ first credit as an actor was in 1973 in a “Cleopatra Jones”-titled movie. Dozens of movies and TV shows have followed and her roles in the CBS crime drama “Hack” (2021) the teen comedy series “On My Block” on Netflix (2018), and in “S.W.A.T” are the ones she is most known by the younger generation of viewers.
Her biggest show was in 2014 when “Black Jesus” the comedy on Adult Swim hit the airwaves. The show which revolves around Jesus Christ living in modern-day Compton, California, on a mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood ran for three seasons of 31 episodes all of which Angela E. Gibbs featured in.
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Gibbs is also a writer and it didn’t start today. She earned her first writing credit in 1999 in the documentary “Dare to Struggle… Dare to Win”. She was also a key writer of the Trumpet Awards between 2002 and 2004 and did screenplays for three short movies (the last being “Bitter Inheritance” from 2014) all of which she directed, one of which she produced.
Gibbs is also an acting coach. She worked with Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning movies”Birdman” (2014) and “The Revenant” (2015).
Angela E. Gibbs got married to Charles Mills an actor known for his late ’80s and early ’90s movies. The couple is divorced. It is not known whether they have kids or not. This is unlikely as there is a reference to a niece where daughter(s)/son(s) would have been mentioned.
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