Ethel Ayler

Ethel Ayler

Ethel Ayler

Performer
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Ethel Ayler

Performer

May 1, 1930

Whistler, Alabama

November 18, 2018

Ethel Ayler was a veteran African-American character actress with a career spanning over five decades. To television audiences, she was best known as Claire Huxtable's mother Carrie Hanks on The Cosby Show. She also appeared on episodes of Six Feet Under, Girlfriends, Friends, Melrose Place, and The Young and the Restless.

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