Janet Hubert Biography

Janet Hubert was born on January 13 1956 in Chicago Illinois and studied at the Juilliard School in New York City. She had a stage career before moving to TV and landing the role of Vivian Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for several seasons. She’s also starred in the daytime dramas All My Children and One Life to Live in addition to writing her 2009 memoir. Janet Hubert-Whitten's career started when she joined the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. She also landed acting work on daytime television and on stage. In the 1980s she was Betty Buckley's understudy for Grizabella in the musical Cats for a time. But her biggest break came as part of the cast of the sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel-Air starring hip-hop recording artist Will Smith (as a character named Will Smith). Much of the humor of the show was the class and culture clash between Smith a streetwise teen from Philadelphia and his upper-class aunt uncle and cousins living in one of California's richest most elite neighborhoods. Hubert-Whitten played Vivian Banks aunt to Smith wife to Philip and mother to Carlton Hilary and Ashley. In 1993 Janet Hubert-Whitten was dismissed from the show and Daphne Maxwell Reid took over the role of Vivian for the show's remaining seasons.

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