Tracee Ellis Ross

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1972 age 0

   Born

2. 2023 age 51

   CreditAmerican Fiction

• MJMichael Jace1 title
• ARAlex Rocco1 title
• SGSara Gilbert1 title
• SRSara Rue1 title
• KWKarl T. Wright1 title
• FMFrank Maharajh1 title
• CCCourteney Cox1 title
• RARosanna Arquette1 title
• NGNathan Gamble1 title
• BBBetsy Brandt1 title

• Siblings

  • EREvan Ross

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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• But you know, I’ve always been excited about getting older. I love getting wiser and having more experience. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I have vulnerabilities and discomforts around my age, but trying to pretend or hide the things that I feel insecure or uncomfortable about doesn’t make them any less comfortable, you know?

  Tracee Ellis Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It’s actually a real honour to get older. Not everybody has that honour, with everything going on in this country, with all of the violence and the children that don’t get to live that long…

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• I want to be in a relationship with myself as I am. I don’t want to be fighting with an image that I put out that I can’t keep up with.

  Tracee Ellis Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• But then when you hit high school you start interacting with the patriarchy.

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• I didn’t see enough examples of different versions of how a woman can find happiness and joy and power and sensuality, sexuality, all of that, without it being through the lens of how I’m seen by a man.

  Tracee Ellis Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0

• But what I would prefer is that I’m the poster child for living my life on my terms. And that there’s a version of that for everyone.

  Tracee Ellis Ross, CC BY-SA 4.0