Still of Debbie Allen and Gene Anthony Ray in Fame (1982)
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Debbie Allen 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 ...