Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Happy Black History Month!!! "Whatever Happened to..."

Happy Black History Month!!! "Whatever Happened to..."
Brenda Sykes (born June 25, 1949) is an actress who made a number of films and appeared in television series in the 1970s.
Sykes was discovered on The Dating Game.
Sykes was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of a postal worker.
Sykes played Jim Brown's love interest in Black Gunn. According to Brown , he was responsible for her being cast in the role, an effort he made because he was attracted to her in real life. From 1973-74, she co-starred on Ozzie's Girls as a college student boarding with Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
She played the character Mandy, one of Jimmie Walker's girlfriends on the 1970s sitcom, Good Times, made a starring role appearance on the first season of The Streets of San Francisco, and as Summer Johnson on the CBS series, Executive Suite. Sykes was married to musician Gil Scott-Heron and is the mother of poet Gia Scott-Heron.
SOURCE: Sykes was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, the daughter of a postal worker.
Sykes played Jim Brown's love interest in Black Gunn. According to Brown , he was responsible for her being cast in the role, an effort he made because he was attracted to her in real life. From 1973-74, she co-starred on Ozzie's Girls as a college student boarding with Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
She played the character Mandy, one of Jimmie Walker's girlfriends on the 1970s sitcom, Good Times, made a starring role appearance on the first season of The Streets of San Francisco, and as Summer Johnson on the CBS series, Executive Suite. Sykes was married to musician Gil Scott-Heron and is the mother of poet Gia Scott-Heron.
Filmography
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
Skin Game (1971)
Black Gunn (1972)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
Mandingo (1975)
Drum (1976)
The Love Boat (1977)
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Sykes
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