Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterTheater actor Sharon D Clarke was raised on classic movie musicals but struggled to picture herself as an actor.“My mom loved Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Gene Kelly.
We watched all of those,” she says. “But there wasn’t much diversity.”After watching “West Side Story,” which featured prominent characters of color, a world opened up to Clarke. “They were different folk, and the music was funky.
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