Netflix Movies Starring Ja'net Dubois
Ja'Net is a multi-talented and diverse performer. She grew up in Brooklyn, NY and began her career on Broadway. She has appeared in various plays, including "Golden Boy" with Sammy Davis Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr., and "A Raisin in the Sun". Ja'Net moved onto TV roles, receiving a Peabody Award for a 1969 CBS children's movie J.T. (1969). She then appeared in a daytime serial, Love of Life (1951); she is the first African American actress to have a regular serial role. Ja'Net is best known for her role as the sexy, confident gossip, "Willona Woods", in the Norman Lear-created series, Good Times (1974). She composed and sang the theme song, "Movin' On Up", for another Lear series, The Jeffersons (1975). Ja'Net has appeared in many films, including the blaxploitation parody, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), as a tough and loving mother. Read more on iMDB