Caption: Still of Debbie Allen, Lee Curreri, Lori Singer, Erica Gimpel, Albert Hague, Carlo Imperato, Carol Mayo Jenkins, Valerie Landsburg, P.R. Paul and Gene Anthony Ray in Fame (1982)
																																				
						Actress, Director, Miscellaneous Crew
						Born: January 16, 1950
						Star sign: Capricorn
						Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m)
						Known for: A Different World (1987), Fame (1982), All of Us (2003), The Old Settler (2001)
						Source: IMDB
						Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to escape US racism. Their mother decided to live there ...