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Her husband, Norman Nixon, is a former NBA player with the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.
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Received an Honorary doctorate from The North Carolina School of the Arts, the same institution that denied her admittance to its dance department when she was sixteen years old; she was told then that she had the wrong type of body for dance.
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Won the first Lena Horne Award for Career Achievement at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards.
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Her most notable role to date, that of "Lydia Grant" on the TV series Fame (1982), earned her three Emmy nominations and one Golden Globe.
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Her father passed away ten days after he accompanied her to the Emmy Awards Ceremony in which she won for Best Choreography for Fame (1982).
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Ex-sister-in-law of Victor Willis and Ahmad Rashad.
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Her daughter, Vivian Nixon, is in the lead role of the Broadway musical "Hot Feet". Vivian was classically trained at Washington D.C.'s Kirov Academy of Ballet and at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Debbie Allen and Martin Henderson in Grey's Anatomy: Die jungen Ärzte (2005)
Is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
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Daughter Vivian Nixon followed in Debbie's footsteps by playing Debbie's "Anita" role in a 2006 revival of the musical The Making of 'West Side Story' (1985). Debbie returned to her hometown of Houston to see her daughter perform.
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Her mother Dr Vivian Elizabeth Ayers attended Brainerd Institute, Barber Scotia College and Bennett College. Vivian was the first poet in the state of Texas to receive the Pulitzer Prize Award nomination in 1952. Vivian was often called the "Poet Laureate of Texas." In the late 50's, her poetry, "Hawk," attracted the attention of NASA and for twenty years was the only poetry celebrated by NASA. She worked as an apprentice librarian at the Fondren Library of Rice University and was accorded faculty status in 1965, becoming the first African American to be so qualified. During her years at Rice, she organized and published The Adept Quarterly, an important contribution to the small publications movement of the time.
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Debbie Allen and Jesse Williams in Grey's Anatomy: Die jungen Ärzte (2005)
In 1972, her mom Vivian's work, "Workshops in Open Fields," was hailed and recommended to the nation as a "prototype of grass roots programming" by the director of NEA. Vivian established the Adept New American Museum--a museum for art and history of the American Southwest; which features "Juneteenth" Black Cowboys, American Indian Sand Painting, seminars on the Emancipation Proclamation and Mayan studies-- in Mt Vernon NY. She is known as a leader in the arts community in New York area.
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Mother of Norman Nixon Jr. (born 1987) and Vivian Nixon (born 1984).
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Has arthritis in her right shoulder and right ankle.
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Is one of four people (Gene Anthony Ray, Albert Hague and Lee Curreri) to appear in both Fame (1980) and Fame (1982) the TV series.
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Debbie Allen and Kevin McKidd in Grey's Anatomy: Die jungen Ärzte (2005)
She studied drama at the HB Studio in Greenwich Village in New York City.
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Debbie Allen and Jesse Williams in Grey's Anatomy: Die jungen Ärzte (2005)
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Debbie Allen, Jessica Capshaw, Justin Chambers, Kevin McKidd, James Pickens Jr., etc.
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Debbie Allen, Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Sinbad, Darryl M. Bell, Kadeem Hardison, etc.
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Debbie Allen and Chandra Wilson in Grey's Anatomy: Die jungen Ärzte (2005)
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