R.I.P. Celebrities We Lost In 2018
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Brande Victorian
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Olivia Cole
Actress Olivia Cole was best known for her role as Matilda, Chicken George’s wife, in the 1977 miniseries Roots, a role which earned her the honor of becoming the first African American woman to win an Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Television Movie. Cole died from a heart attack at her home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on January 19. She was 75.
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