Rhonda Stubbins White, 60, was best known for her recurring role on Tyler Perry’s drama series, Ruthless, has died.
On Monday, Rhonda reportedly died of cancer at her home in Los Angeles, a friend announced, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rhonda, a Brooklyn native, was an actress, singer, and writer who launched her career in the early 1980s after attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She studied alongside other Hollywood greats, including Alec Baldwin and David Gideon, both classmates at the time.
The 60-year-old’s most recent role was as the cult elder Agnes on Tyler Perry’s Ruthless, airing on BET. The series follows Ruth Truesdale, a member of a religious sex cult, The Grio reported.
In 1992, she made her television debut on an episode of NBC’s Here and Now, an early ’90s comedy starring Malcolm-Jamal Warner as a college graduate who returns to his former Harlem neighborhood to run a youth center. She then appeared in Laurel Avenue, a 1993 HBO miniseries about an African American family and an eventful three-day weekend in their Minneapolis, Minnesota, hometown.
The veteran actress earned a CableACE nomination for her role as Rolanda Arnett. The following year, she appeared opposite Diana Ross in the ABC telefilm Out of Darkness, per The Grio.
After appearing in several television shows, Rhonda expanded her acting career by landing roles in “Lady Vi on NBC’s Days of Our Lives in 2000; guest-star on such series as Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, Touched by an Angel, Chicago Hope, ER, The West Wing, The District, Charmed, Southland, and Shameless; and work in films including Sunset Park (1996) and Wim Wenders’ Land of Plenty (2004).”
Rhonda’s private Instagram page describes her as a “Daughter of the Most High God/Actress/Singer in the Choir and Beyond/Disco Dancer/Writer/Lover of Music.”
She is survived by her siblings Gregory and Annette.
