Her final foray into gaming was in 2011 when she did incidental voices for the game L.A. Carter also did radio and TV voice-overs, commercials, music videos, and voice acted as Marsha Carmichael in the animated series Rugrats, as Justice Department attorney Christina Brannon in the game Law & Order, and as the character Storm in the game X-Men. Interestingly she repeated her role as Lena Horne - in addition to also playing the role of Marian Anderson - in the Embassy Theater musical anthology Voices. Carter received acclaim for her role as Leone in the opera Burning Dreams, as well as for her role as Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Very much at home on the theater stage, she portrayed Lena Horne in the fantastical "musical murder mystery" Dark Legends in Blood. Weaving her career both as a singer and an actress in equal parts, she managed to combine them both into a very personal and expressive career. Throughout her acting career she had numerous smaller parts on television, in series such as Moonlighting, ER, Dexter, The Practice, The Bold and the Beautiful, Rugrats, All Grown Up! and as Congresswoman Haas in The West Wing. After that initial inroad many, many roles followed.Īmong her other movie credits are her roles as the titular character’s mother in Black Dynamite, and as Sandy in the television movie The Choice. Heading to New York from her native Maryland, and from thereon westwards to Los Angeles and ultimately Hollywood, the first time she stepped in front of the movie camera was in 1981, for the film Hard Country.
"I always had my mind, my energies and my heart," she said, "deeply rooted in music." Cheryl Carter was born 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, the home of Martinet Opera School and Baltimore Jazz.Ī singer at heart, she always found inspiration in music.
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