Rosanna Carter

Who is Rosanna Carter?

Rosanna Carter was an American television, stage and film actress, of Bahamian extraction, and the sister of Esther Rolle and Estelle Evans. Rosanna Carter was born on September 20, 1918 in Rolle Town, Bahamas, the ninth of eighteen children, to Bahamian immigrants, Johnathon and Elizabeth Rolle. During the Harlem Renaissance, she acted at New Lafayette Theater as one of the Lafayette Players. She acted in The Brother from Another Planet, a well-reviewed 1984 film described as a science fiction fairy tale with a slavery plot.