'''Rosanna Carter''' (born September 20, 1918 - 2001) was an American television, stage and film actress, of [[Bahamas|Bahamian]] extraction, and the sister of [[Esther Rolle]] and [[Estelle Evans]].<ref>[http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0738354/bio IMDB Biography for Esther Rolle]</ref> Rosanna Carter was born on September 20, 1918 in [[Rolle Town]], [[Bahamas]], the ninth of eighteen children, to [[The Bahamas|Bahamian]] immigrants, Johnathon and Elizabeth Rolle. During the [[Harlem Renaissance]], she acted at [[Lafayette Theatre (Harlem)|New Lafayette Theater]] as one of the Lafayette Players.<ref>A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, Annemarie Bean, 1999</ref> She acted in ''[[The Brother from Another Planet]]'', a well-reviewed 1984 film described as a [[science fiction]] fairy tale with a [[slavery]] plot.
