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Yvonne Brewster
Jamaican actress, theatre director and theatre manager
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dead
- born
- 1938
- died
- 2025
- age at death
- 87
- known for
- actor, director, teacher
1938 – 2025

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who yvonne brewster is
Elsie Yvonne Brewster was a Jamaican actress, theatre director, producer and writer working across film, theatre, radio and television. She has been described as a "cultural visionary who helped shape modern Caribbean theatre". In 1956, she went to England to study drama at Rose Bruford College, as the UK's first Black woman drama student.
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