Martha Plimpton

She was also nominated for a 2002 Emmy Award for best guest actress in a drama series. Rolle died in Los Angeles, California due to complications from diabetes. As of 2002 she continues to perform in films while pursing stage acting with The Steppenwolf Theater Company (most notably in Hedda Gabler). After Good Times, she starred in a number of made-for-television movies and feature films, including Driving Miss Daisy, A Raisin in the Sun, and My Fellow Americans. She was the lead in a short-run television show on HBO called The Defenders. The daughter of Bahamian immigrants, Rolle was born in Pompano Beach, Florida and attended Spelman College. In the 1990s she developed a reputation for being a very professional actress, taking many smaller roles in mainstream films like Beautiful Girls and in films like 200 Cigarettes and John Waters' Pecker. Esther Rolle (November 8, 1920 - November 17, 1998) was an American actress, best known for her role as Florida Evans, the character she played on two successful 1970s sitcoms: Maude and its spinoff, Good Times.

In the film The Mosquito Coast she met boyfriend River Phoenix, whom she later left because of his drug use. After her part in the cult classic The Goonies she built up a reputation for being able to play rebellious tomboys, appearing in such films as Shy People, Silence Like Glass and Stars and Bars. She began her career in the 1980s in the film The River Rat. Martha Plimpton (born November 16, 1970) was born from Hollywood blood with parents Keith Carradine and Shelley Plimpton.