Ja'net DuBois Biography

Fast Facts

• Featured as a pin-up model in a 1960 issue of Jet magazine
• Made her Broadway debut as part of the original cast of the 1964 production of Golden Boy
• First African-American actress to have a regular role on a soap opera, the half-hour CBS daytime drama Love of Life
• Penned theme songs to Good Times and The Jeffersons
• Played mom to Janet Jackson on Good Times and in the music video for "Control
• " In 1992, co-founded the Pan African Film & Arts Festival, a non-profit event held in Los Angeles, CA
• In 2007, released the album Hidden Treasures