Debbi Morgan
Morgan inThe Jesse Owens Story (1984)
Born	Deborah Ann Morgan September 20 Dunn, North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1971–present
Spouses	Charles Weldon ​ ​ (m. 1980; div. 1984)​ Charles S. Dutton ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 1994)​ Donn Thompson ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2000)​ Jeffrey Winston ​ (m. 2009)​
Website	debbimorgan.org

Deborah Ann "Debbi"Morgan^{[note 1]} is an American film and television actress. Morgan has appeared in a number of film and TV productions, and may be best known for the role ofAngie Baxter–Hubbard on theABC soap operaAll My Children.

Morgan was the first African American to win theDaytime Emmy Award forOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance as Angie in 1989. She is also known for her role as the Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons ofCharmed. In film, her performance as Mozelle Batiste-Delacroix inEve's Bayou (1997) earned critical acclaim and theIndependent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. More recently she played a recurring role as Estelle Green in thestarz crime drama seriesPower and its spinoffPower Book II: Ghost from 2014 to 2021, and also co-starred in theFox drama seriesOur Kind of People.

Morgan was born inDunn, North Carolina,^{[citation needed]} the daughter of Lora, a teacher, and George Morgan Jr., a butcher. She has a younger sister, Terry. The family relocated to the Bronx when Morgan was still a child. In a 1997 interview withPeople, Morgan revealed that her father was an abusive alcoholic. While he never physically harmed his daughters, Morgan recalled her mother running from her father often. Her father died ofleukemia in 1975.^[3] Morgan graduated fromAquinas High School.^[4]

Morgan's earliest film role was in the movieCry Uncle! in 1971. She played the role of Vi. Morgan's earliest recurring role was onWhat's Happening!! from 1976 to 1977 as Diane Harris, and also appeared onGood Times. In 1979, she received critical acclaim for her portrayal ofAlex Haley's great-aunt Elizabeth Harvey on the 1979 miniseriesRoots: The Next Generations, and her guest-starring role as Curtis Jackson's ex-girlfriend turned prostitute onThe White Shadow. Her most notable role wasAngie Baxter Hubbard on thesoap operaAll My Children, a role she originally played from January 1982 to July 1990. Her portrayal of Angie struck a chord with many Black viewers across America. Angie and her love interest,Jesse Hubbard (Darnell Williams), became the firstAfrican-American "supercouple" on daytime soap operas. In 1989, Morgan won theDaytime Emmy Award forOutstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (which she shares withSanta Barbara actressNancy Lee Grahn). She and Williams also co-hosted a music video show titledNew York Hot Tracks in the mid-1980s.^{[citation needed]}

After leavingAll My Children, Morgan played the role of Chantal Marshall on the NBC soap opera,Generations (replacing actressSharon Brown) and remained with the show until it ended. She then reprised her role as Angie Hubbard on ABC'sLoving in 1993. In 1995, she brought the same character toThe City (a retooled version ofLoving), making Morgan one of the few performers to portray the same character on three different soap operas. From 1997 to 1998, she also played Dr. Ellen Burgess onPort Charles. In the 1980s and 1990s, Morgan became ade facto symbol for the possibilities for black women as all of her soap opera roles involved her playing a successful doctor.

Morgan earned acclaim from movie critics for her portrayal of clairvoyant Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in directorKasi Lemmons' drama filmEve's Bayou (1997).^[5] For her portrayal, she won aChicago Film Critics Association Award and anIndependent Spirit Award and was nominated for anImage Award. She later left soap operas and began her film career with roles inShe's All That (1999),The Hurricane (1999),Love & Basketball (2000),Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004),Coach Carter (2005),Relative Strangers (2006), andColor of the Cross (2006). On television, she had roles inThe Practice,Strong Medicine,Boston Public,Providence, andSoul Food.^[6]

From 2002 to 2003, Morgan played lead character Lora Gibson, oppositeLea Thompson, on theLifetime drama seriesFor the People. She also played the role of the Seer in the fourth and fifth seasons ofCharmed. Morgan, along with costar Darnell Williams, returned toAll My Children in January 2008, 10 years after leaving daytime television.^[7] In May 2009 and 2011, she was nominated for theDaytime Emmy Award forOutstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.^[8] In 2011, ABC cancelledAll My Children, and Morgan joined the cast ofThe Young and the Restless asYolanda "Harmony" Hamilton^[9][10] on October 7, 2011, exactly two weeks afterAll My Children aired its final television episode on September 23, 2011. In 2013, Morgan appeared in the Web-based reboot ofAll My Children, reprising her role of Angie Hubbard.^[11] The series premiered on April 29, 2013, and was cancelled after a single season.^[12][13] In November 2013, afterAll My Children was cancelled, Morgan was cast inStarz drama series,Power, oppositeOmari Hardwick andNaturi Naughton.^[14][15] In 2015, she co-starred alongsideRichard Lawson andVivica A. Fox in two TV One holiday movies:Royal Family Thanksgiving andRoyal Family Christmas.^[16][17] Morgan later playedToni Braxton's mother in theLifetime biopicToni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart.^[18][19][20]

In 2017, Morgan appeared in the Marvel miniseriesThe Defenders playing Delores. The following year, she had a recurring role in the BET drama seriesThe Quad. In 2019, she appeared in the Netflix filmSextuplets starringMarlon Wayans. She starred withKelly Rowland in the Lifetime movieMerry Liddle Christmas and its sequels. In 2021, she was cast in theLee Daniels prime time soap opera,Our Kind of People oppositeYaya DaCosta.^[21] In 2023 she portrayedKeyshia Cole's mother in the Lifetime biopicKeyshia Cole: This is My Story. Jasmine Blu fromTVfanatic wrote in her review: "Debbi Morgan, though, has always been a force, a legend who deserves every last bit of her flowers right here and now. To say she stole this film would be the understatement of the century. She was magnificent. She did such a remarkable job playing Frankie; there were moments it literally gave me chills. It's almost eerie how well Morgan embodied the late mother and grandmother."^[22] Morgan later was cast in the drama filmDivorce in the Black written and directed byTyler Perry.

Morgan has been married four times and has no children. Her first marriage was toCharles Weldon from 1980 until 1984. In 1989, Morgan married actorCharles S. Dutton, divorcing in 1994. From 1997 until 2000, Morgan was married to photographer Donn Thompson. Morgan has been married to Jeffrey Winston since June 2009.^[23]

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