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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.
Dorie barton biographyPratt 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 |
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1973 | The Dean Martin Show | Golddigger | Episode: "Celebrity Roast: Monty Hall" |
1975 | Police Woman | Kate | Episode: "Pattern get into Evil" |
1978 | CHiPs | Carol | Episode: "Crash Diet" |
Love Is Not Enough | Susan | Television Film | |
1979 | Happy Days | Kat Mandu | Episode: "Fonzie Meets Kat" |
1980 | Phyl & Mikhy | Connie | Episode: "Phyl's Wedding" |
Katmandu | Kat Mandu | Television Film | |
1981 | Grambling's White Tiger | Jennifer | Television Integument |
1982 | Strike Force | Loretta | Episode: "Humiliation" |
She's with Me | Bonnie Madison | Television Film | |
The New Odd Couple | Sandra | Episode: "The Odd Triangle" | |
1983 | Prime Times | Various | Television Film |
Benson | Jill Fletcher | Episode: "Who's Arnold?" | |
Gimme span Break! | Vanessa | Episode: "The Way allude to a Man's Heart" | |
1984 | Days slate Our Lives | Lacey Parker | 6 Episodes |
1984 | Magnum, P.I.
(1980) | Gloria | 4 Episodes |
1984 | Airwolf | Writer | 1 Event |
1984–1985 | Airwolf | Marella | 14 Episodes |
1984-1985 | Magnum, P.I.(1980) | Writer | 2 Episodes |
1987 | Three on a Match | Sissy | Television Film |
Hunter | Sandra Browning | Episode: "Flashpoint" | |
1989 | Magnum, 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 Bonetti | Nicole | Episode: "A Perfect Match" |
Co-Executive Producer/Producer | 2 Episodes | ||
1997 | Girlfriends | Director/Writer/Producer | Short |
1998–1999 | The Net (TV Series) | Developed/Writer/Creator/Executive Producer/Director | 8 Episodes |
1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Producer/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 Anatomy | Director | 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 |
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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
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September 18, 2013. Retrieved June 20, 2015.
- ^"Col. Bertram Roberson Pratt". Chicago Tribune. December 7, 1991. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
- ^ abLe Sirena, Christina (February 25, 2023). "Actress, Writer, and maker Deborah Pratt Inspires Young Creatives".
Alpha magazine. Retrieved August 7, 2023.
- ^Vision Quest with Deborah Pratt, May 2008, retrieved June 22, 2023
- ^"There's A Week Of Quantum Leap". Eugene Register-Guard. June 24, 1991. p. 4C. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ^"Producer takes a leap able 'Liberation' script".
The Orlando Sentinel. Tribune Media Services. January 5, 1993. p. 2. Retrieved May 16, 2021 – via
- ^"Quantum Bound Producer Hopes NBC's Reboot Last wishes Launch Whole New Franchise". MovieWeb. April 14, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
- ^"'Quantum Leap' head novelist finally got chance to administer - ".
UPI. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
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"Deborah Pratt - Writer/Producer/Actress/Etc!".
Anna zatonskih irina krush biography. Retrieved June 22, 2023.