Hazelle Goodman (born Hazel Goodman; February , ) is an actress from
Trinidad and Tobago. As a child she was inspired to become an actress
after viewing The Sound of Music, before her family moved to New York
where she was raised in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.After
graduating from City College of New York with a degree in drama,
Goodman spent seven years developing her one-woman show called
Hazelle!. The show was adapted for the screen by HBO in , and earned
two Cable Ace nominations in the Best Comedy Special and Best
Performer categories. In , she became the first black actress to have
a prominent role in a Woody Allen film when she portrayed Cookie, a
prostitute in Allen's Deconstructing Harry. Goodman also had a
recurring role on Homicide: Life on the Street as Georgia Rae Mahoney,
a key figure in a drug dealing family who is eventually murdered. On
stage, in addition to her one-woman show, she has also portrayed the
Queen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and took part in the February , ,
staging of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Madison Square
Garden. Goodman went on to write and star in a second one-woman show
called To the Top, Top, Top!. She was also an original cast member of
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, performing the late artists
monologues that primarily dealt with adventure.
Trinidad and Tobago. As a child she was inspired to become an actress
after viewing The Sound of Music, before her family moved to New York
where she was raised in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn.After
graduating from City College of New York with a degree in drama,
Goodman spent seven years developing her one-woman show called
Hazelle!. The show was adapted for the screen by HBO in , and earned
two Cable Ace nominations in the Best Comedy Special and Best
Performer categories. In , she became the first black actress to have
a prominent role in a Woody Allen film when she portrayed Cookie, a
prostitute in Allen's Deconstructing Harry. Goodman also had a
recurring role on Homicide: Life on the Street as Georgia Rae Mahoney,
a key figure in a drug dealing family who is eventually murdered. On
stage, in addition to her one-woman show, she has also portrayed the
Queen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and took part in the February , ,
staging of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Madison Square
Garden. Goodman went on to write and star in a second one-woman show
called To the Top, Top, Top!. She was also an original cast member of
Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, performing the late artists
monologues that primarily dealt with adventure.
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