Rachel True

True is known for playing characters with a dark side, such as the one she played in Embrace of the Vampire, the witch in The Craft, and Julianne in New Best Friend. Her final film, the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame was released posthumously in 1996. True has also appeared in Nowhere, Groove, and New Best Friend. Hospitalised in 1995, Wickes died after surgery for cancer. True played the girlfriend of a pothead who hid his habit from her in Half Baked. She appeared in the 1994 film version of Little Women before she became ill. True and Campbell became best friends during the filming, a friendship they maintain. As Sister Mary Lazarus, Wickes' portrayal of a gruff but vulnerable elderly nun, contributed to the film's popularity, and she reprised the role in the sequel Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993).

True's next movie was The Craft, where she played a member of a gothic teenage coven along with Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Fairuza Balk. Her appearance in the 1990 film Postcards From the Edge brought her attention, however she achieved the biggest success of her career in Sister Act (1992). After CB4, she was cast alongside Alyssa Milano for the movie Embrace of the Vampire. By the 1980s her appearances in television series such as M*A*S*H, The Love Boat, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Murder, She Wrote had made her a widely recognisable character actress. By 1993, she had moved to Los Angeles, and appeared opposite Chris Rock in his movie spoof CB4. She appeared in a children's televison show called Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. In 1991, True had an appearance on The Cosby Show beginning a string of TV jobs, including turns on Beverly Hills 90210, The Drew Carey Show, Once and Again, and HBO's Dream On. A lifelong friend of Lucille Ball, she played frequent guest roles in each of Ball's television series, I Love Lucy, Here's Lucy and The Lucy Show.

True is the step-daughter of actress Verona Barnes, and developed a love for acting as a child, watching her step-mother participate in different plays. In the 1950s she played regular roles in the television sitcoms Make Room for Daddy and Dennis The Menace, as well as appearing as Emma the housekeeper in the holiday classic White Christmas (1954, starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and providing her voice to the Walt Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961). Rachel True (born November 15, 1966) is an African-American actress from New York. She continued playing supporting roles in films during the next decade. The Cosby Show. The same year she had a large part in the Bud Abbott and Lou Costello comedy-whodunnit, titled Who Done It?. Cooper. A tall, gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne, but she first attracted attention in the film Now, Voyager (1942), as the wise-cracking nurse who helped Bette Davis' character during her mother's illness.

Hangin' with Mr. One of her earliest significant film appearances was in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942). Renegade. Louis, Missouri, Wickes began acting in films in the late 1930s. Beverly Hills, 90210. Born Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Thea. Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 - October 22, 1995) was a United States film and television actress.