{"id":7302,"date":"2011-06-02T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7302"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T19:18:33","slug":"%e2%80%98cosby-show%e2%80%99-actress-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7302","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cosby Show\u2019 Actress Dies At 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clarice Taylor<\/strong>, most famous for playing<strong> Dr. Cliff Huxtable\u2019s<\/strong> mother on \u201cThe Cosby Show\u201d and Harriet on \u201cSesame Street,\u201d has died at the age of 93. <strong>Ms. Taylor<\/strong> played Harriet on the popular children\u2019s show for 14 years, while also spending some time as the Huxtable matriarch.<\/p>\n<p><strong> Ms. Taylor <\/strong>played alongside <strong>Earle Hyman<\/strong> for seven years as <strong>Bill Cosby\u2019s<\/strong> onscreen quirky parents, Anna and Russell Huxtable. <strong>Ms. Taylor<\/strong> received an Emmy nomination in 1986 for Outstanding Guest Performer In A Comedy Series for her work on \u201cThe Cosby Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Besides her work on \u201cThe Cosby Show,\u201d <strong>Ms. Taylor<\/strong> also starred in <strong>Clint Eastwood\u2019s<\/strong> directorial debut, the psychological thriller \u201cPlay Misty For Me,\u201d and appeared on the stage numerous times, including in the original Broadway cast of \u201cThe Wiz\u201d as Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North. Interestingly enough, her future onscreen daughter-in-law, <strong>Phylicia Rashad<\/strong>, was a munchkin in that production.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that <strong>Ms. Taylor<\/strong> died of heart failure and was surrounded by her family. She is survived by two sons, <strong>William<\/strong> and<strong> James<\/strong>, and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarice Taylor, most famous for playing Dr. Cliff Huxtable\u2019s mother on \u201cThe Cosby Show\u201d and Harriet on \u201cSesame Street,\u201d has died at the age of 93. Ms. Taylor played Harriet on the popular children\u2019s show for 14 years, while also spending some time as the Huxtable matriarch. Ms. Taylor played alongside Earle Hyman for seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}