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Yvonne Brewster

Jamaican actress, theatre director and theatre manager

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born
1938
died
2025
age at death
87
known for
actor, director, teacher

1938 – 2025

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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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