Fredi Washington
American actress, activist
Died when: 90 years 187 days (1086 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Fredericka Carolyn "Fredi" Washington (December 23, 1903 – June 28, 1994) was an American stage and film actress, civil rights activist, performer, and writer.Washington was of African-American descent.
She was one of the first people of color to gain recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s.
Washington was active in the Harlem Renaissance (1920s–1930s), her best known role being Peola in the 1934 film version of Imitation of Life, where she plays a young light-skinned woman who decides to pass as white.
Her last film role was in One Mile from Heaven (1937), after which she left Hollywood and returned to New York to work in theatre and civil rights activism.
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