Suzzanne Douglas Passed Away!

Suzzanne Douglas passed away on Wednesday.

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Best known for her role on Robert Townsend's hit sitcom The Parent 'Hood, actress Suzzanne Douglas passed away at the age of 64.

She is best known for her role as matriarch Jerri Peterson on The WB sitcom which ran from 1995 to 1999. Douglas also portrayed Amy Simms in the 1989 dance/drama film Tap alongside Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

In addition to Tap, Douglas starred in several other motion pictures, among them How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Jason's Lyric (1994), The Inkwell (1994) as well as the 2003 Disney/ABC version of Sounder with Carl Lumbly. Douglas is also well known for her portrayal as Cissy Houston in the Lifetime TV movie Whitney in 2015. In 2019, she appeared as the mother of one of the main characters in When They See Us (Netflix), directed by Ava DuVernay.

According to reports she had succumbed to pancreatic cancer. She fought that for two years. 

She passed away at home in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. 

Douglas has numerous television guest star appearances (Bull, Bones and The Good Wife). Douglas has also appeared on The Parkers, The Cosby Show, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NYPD Blue, and Touched by an Angel.On stage, Douglas performed the role of Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera starring Sting and Dr. Bearing in Wit, where she was the first African American to perform the role.

Douglas was a two-time Image Award winner, and also won a Black Oscar, a Reel Award, and the Mary Martin Award. Douglas appears in the Rel Dowdell film Changing the Game in 2011.

Douglas was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority where she served on its board as the honorary co-chair of the Commission on Arts and Letters for thirteen years. In the community, she was a lifetime member of Girl Scouts of the USA, The National Council of Negro Women, Sigma Alpha Lambda (a national leadership and honors organization) and Jack and Jill of America.

She was married to Dr. Roy Jonathan Cobb, a nuero-radiologist. Together they had a daughter.