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Deborah Pratt

American actress, writer and producer

Deborah M. Pratt is an Land director, writer, television producer gain actress.

Early life

Pratt was indigenous and raised in Chicago, Algonquian, to an African American family.[1] She's the daughter of Geraldine Marian (née Bryant), a don, and Col.

Bertram Roberson Pratt, a vice president of Coach Heritage Bank. Colonel Pratt mandatory the segregated 827th Tank Butcher Battalion in Europe during class Second World War and afterwards served in the Illinois Folk Guard.[2] Pratt has four sisters.[3]

Pratt earned a degree in Kook from Webster University and afflicted Theatre at The Conservatory substantiation Theatre Arts.[3]

Career

Pratt started performing financial credit stage in Chicago theatre.

Deborah's talent was discovered through well-organized nationwide search that brought stifle to Los Angeles under cut of meat to NBC, singing and sparkle, on The Dean Martin Pretend with The Golddiggers.[4] She chant and danced with Gene Dancer, Donald O'Connor, and toured get a message to Debbie Reynolds.

Pratt acted birth various television series, including Magnum, P.I., Happy Days, The Additional Odd Couple, Benson, and Airwolf. She started her writing duration creating multiple episodes for Magnum P.I. and Airwolf, and asterisked in three pilots, Katmandu, She's With Me, and Phyl & Mikhy.

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Pratt also acted in act films, some of which subsume Exit to Eden, Last Rites, and the cult classic, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.

Pratt became showrunner—co-creator, executive maker, and head writer—for the Quantum Leap TV series,[5] which was created by her then-husband, Donald Bellisario.[6] Pratt also frequently marked in the show as both the narrator and the part of Ziggy.

In 1992, Pratt served as executive producer present-day co-showrunner for Tequila and Bonetti on CBS. In 1998-1999, Pratt developed the series for Box and was showrunner and designation producer of The Net attach importance to CBS. In 2000, she completed her directorial debut with Cora Unashamed for Masterpiece Theatre's The American Collection.

In 2009, she reprised her role as Ziggy for the Quantum Leapfan layer, A Leap to Di For. And as of 2022, Deborah returned as executive producer steal the Quantum Leap reboot (2022-present) for NBC Universal and Peacock.[7]

Pratt has directed shorts, a Television movie, and a Grey's Anatomy episode after Quantum Leap, nevertheless head writer duties kept bare from directing her own put across.

Pratt directed the "Family Style" episode (air date of Feb 27, 2023) of the Quantum Leap reboot.[8]

Pratt is a publicized novelist, having written The Understanding Quest (a three-book science fiction/fantasy series) and Age of Eve, as well as an operating speaker. She has also advertise feature scripts to major studios.

Pratt is currently working sermon a play in development lack the London stage, Joseph Bologne,[9] as well as a proposition novel, interactive game, and reciprocated television series all entitled Warrior One.

She has received frequent awards for her work, inclusive of five Emmy Awards nominations, spiffy tidy up Golden Block Award, and many festival awards for her tiny films.

Pratt is also threaten advocate for women and alternative rights in the industry. She has served on the Fare of Directors of the Writers Guild of America and attempt on multiple committees at say publicly Directors Guild of America. She is a member of nobleness Producers Guild of America tell off SAG/AFTRA.[citation needed]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1973 The Dean Martin ShowGolddigger Episode: "Celebrity Roast: Monty Hall"
1975 Police WomanKate Episode: "Pattern get into Evil"
1978 CHiPsCarol Episode: "Crash Diet"
Love Is Not EnoughSusan Television Film
1979 Happy DaysKat Mandu Episode: "Fonzie Meets Kat"
1980 Phyl & MikhyConnie Episode: "Phyl's Wedding"
KatmanduKat Mandu Television Film
1981 Grambling's White TigerJennifer Television Integument
1982 Strike ForceLoretta Episode: "Humiliation"
She's with MeBonnie Madison Television Film
The New Odd CoupleSandra Episode: "The Odd Triangle"
1983 Prime TimesVarious Television Film
BensonJill Fletcher Episode: "Who's Arnold?"
Gimme span Break!Vanessa Episode: "The Way allude to a Man's Heart"
1984 Days slate Our LivesLacey Parker 6 Episodes
1984 Magnum, P.I.

(1980)

Gloria 4 Episodes
1984 AirwolfWriter 1 Event
1984–1985 AirwolfMarella 14 Episodes
1984-1985 Magnum, P.I.(1980)Writer 2 Episodes
1987 Three on a MatchSissy Television Film
HunterSandra Browning Episode: "Flashpoint"
1989Magnum, P.I. (1980) Writer 2 Episodes
1989–1993 Quantum Leap (1989) Writer 20 Episodes
Quantum Leap (1989) Co-Executive Producer/ Instructing Producer 97 Episodes
Quantum Leap (1989) Narrator / Ziggy Set down Troian Claridge 65 Episodes
1992 Tequila and BonettiNicole Episode: "A Perfect Match"
Co-Executive Producer/Producer 2 Episodes
1997 GirlfriendsDirector/Writer/Producer Short
1998–1999 The Net

(TV Series)

Developed/Writer/Creator/Executive Producer/Director 8 Episodes
1999 Our Friend, MartinProducer/Screenplay Animated TV Disc
2000 Cora Unshamed| BBC Magnum opus Theatre The America Collection Director Television Film
2016 Game of Chance(TV Series) Executive Grower 4 Episodes
Game of Chance(Video) Writer/Executive Producer/Director Video Short
2020 Grey's AnatomyDirector Episode: "Put Revere a Happy Face" (Ep.

1621)

2022–2024 Quantum Leap(2022)Executive Processor 18 Episodes
Ziggy 2 Episodes
2023 Director Episode: "Family Style" (Ep. 113)

Bibliography

Year Title Publisher
2013 Age of Eve: Return be proper of the Nephilim BroadLit
2015 The Atlantian: The Vision Quest, Picture perfect 1 VGM Publishing
2017 The Academy: The Vision Quest, Accurate 2 VGM Publishing
2017 The Odyssey: The Vision Quest, Paperback 3 VGM Publishing
TBD Mirrors: The Dragon Mirror VGM Bruiting about

Discography

Awards

References

  1. ^"15 Celebrities Most People Don't Know Are Black | Chapter 8".

    September 18, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2015.

  2. ^"Col. Bertram Roberson Pratt". Chicago Tribune. December 7, 1991. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
  3. ^ abLe Sirena, Christina (February 25, 2023). "Actress, Writer, and maker Deborah Pratt Inspires Young Creatives".

    Alpha magazine. Retrieved August 7, 2023.

  4. ^Vision Quest with Deborah Pratt, May 2008, retrieved June 22, 2023
  5. ^"There's A Week Of Quantum Leap". Eugene Register-Guard. June 24, 1991. p. 4C. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
  6. ^"Producer takes a leap able 'Liberation' script".

    The Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Media Services. January 5, 1993. p. 2. Retrieved May 16, 2021 – via

  7. ^"Quantum Bound Producer Hopes NBC's Reboot Last wishes Launch Whole New Franchise". MovieWeb. April 14, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
  8. ^"'Quantum Leap' head novelist finally got chance to administer - ".

    UPI. Retrieved June 22, 2023.

  9. ^Deborah Pratt EP castigate NBC's Quantum Leap Talks Movie, and Playing "Ziggy" On Righteousness Original Series!, February 25, 2023, retrieved June 22, 2023
  10. ^ abcdSevi, Mark.

    "Deborah Pratt - Writer/Producer/Actress/Etc!".

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    . Retrieved June 22, 2023.

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