- André De Shields was born on January 12, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor, known for The Instigators (2024), tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) and Extreme Measures (1996).
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- ParentsMary GutherJohn De Shields
- African-American Broadway actor, singer, writer, composer, lyricist, choreographer, director and educator.
- He played the original Wiz in "The Wiz" on 1970s Broadway.
- De Shields made his Broadway debut in 1973 in "Warp". That same year, he choreographed Bette Midler's "Clams on the Half Shell" Broadway show.
- He was awarded the 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Revue for "The Colored Museum", at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
- He was nominated for a 1995 Joseph Jefferson Award for Director of a Revue for "The Colored Museum", at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
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