Angela Elayne Gibbs

Angela Elayne Gibbs is an actress and writer A native of Detroit Michigan Angela has a diverse background in the entertainment industry that spans 5 decades As an actor her credits include recurring roles on Hacks On My Block and SWAT As a regular on Aaron McGruders Black Jesus her character Ms Tudi broke out as one of the leads Her films include Love Jacked in which she starred with her mother Marla Gibbs Stone Cold Christmas and Straight Outta Compton in which she portrayed Ice Cubes mother As an acting coach Gibbs has worked with Alejandro G Inarritu coaching on both his Oscarwinning films Birdman and The Revenant Gibbs coached newcomer Demetrius Shipp for the role of Tupac in the upcoming All Eyes On Me and Richie Merritt on White Boy Rick for criticallyacclaimed director Yaan Demange While attending the American Film Institute Gibbs cast the short film Last Breeze of Summer that won an AcademyAward nomination and she received AFIs Mary Pickford Award for directing Her short film Ties That Bind won the HBO Shorts Award was featured during BETs Best Short series and won Best Short at the prestigious Pan African Film Festival When Angela produced the play 227 the success buzz caught the attention of Norman Lear who helped develop it into the NBC hit series Angela is the recipient of two NAACP Image Awards for producing 227 and for the Broadway play Checkmates starring Denzel Washington and Ruby Dee Gibbs wrote the Trumpet Awards for its first 10 years and taught at Spelman Colleges Drama Department Angela is developing two features that she will direct