Reaves-Phillips was born in Mullins, South Carolina, and made her Broadway debut as Mama Younger in the 1973 musical Raisin.
She received Joseph Jefferson award nomination for Low Down Dirty Blues in 2010.
[3] Reaves-Phillips also appeared in a number of movies, include The Happy Hooker (1975), Round Midnight (1986) for which she received NAACP Image Awards nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture,[4] Lean on Me (1989), and For Love or Money (1993).
On television, she appeared in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order.
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