Winnfred Wilford is the ex-husband of Debbie Allen. Winnfred Wilford’s ex-wife, Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer, and a former member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
Personal Life
Winnfred only came into the limelight because of his relationship with the ex-wife. There isn’t a lot of information about his personal information in the news and the internet. He has black ethnicity and is also an American. He is believed to have been well-raised with a good education.
How did Winnfred Wilford and Debbie Allen meet?
Winnfred Wilford is the first man the popular actress got married to. How did the two former love birds meet and started their relationship? The couple have not given or talked about the circumstances that lead to them getting together and later married.
But then according to some online sources, Winnfred and his ex-wife, Actress and dancer, Debbie Allen had met at the rehearsals for a 1973-off Broadway musical, Sheba, where Winnfred Wilford acted as a chorus boy and Debbie was a featured dancer. Debbie Allen confessed she found him attractive. He used to drive a Mercedes-Benz, used to wear fine clothes and even when he comes late for rehearsals, no one would get mad at him.
However, it is a piece of popular information that, Winnfred and Debbie got married from 1975 to 1983. There are no records of them having any children. The couple were together for 7 years before calling their marriage a quit.
Career
Winnfred Wilford’s current career is not known. However, according to some online sources, the ex-husband of Debbie Allen served as the vice president of CBS Records and has worked as the publicist for its Epic Label. With Epic, he was responsible for caring for and supporting the black artists and promoting them. Some of the artists whom he nurtured are Lou Rawls, the Jacksons, Teddy Pendergrass, and Luther Vandross.
Winnfred Wilford’s ex-wife
Allen is now married to former NBA player Norm Nixon; the couple have three children: dancer Vivian Nichole Nixon (who played Kalimba in the Broadway production of Hot Feet) basketball player Norman Ellard Nixon Jr. (Wofford College & Southern University), and DeVaughn Nixon.
Debbie is the sister of actress/director/singer Phylicia Rashad (she guest-starred in an episode of The Cosby Show & Rashad in an episode of In the House and also Greys Anatomy), and Tex Allen (Andrew Arthur Allen III, born 1945), a jazz composer.
Allen began her career appearing in Broadway theatre. Allen had her Broadway debut in the chorus of Purlie in 1970. She later created the role of Beneatha in the Tony Award-winning musical Raisin (1973), and appeared in Truckload, and Ain’t Misbehavin’.
In 1980, she received critical attention for her performance as Anita in the Broadway revival of West Side Story which earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and won her a Drama Desk Award.
In 2000s and 2010s, Winnfred Wilford’s ex-wife, Allen directed television shows, including 44 episodes of All of Us, as well as Girlfriends, Everybody Hates Chris, How to Get Away with Murder, Empire, Scandal and Jane the Virgin. In 2011, she joined the cast of ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy playing the role of Dr. Catherine Fox. As of 12th season, she served as an executive producer. In 2020, she directed the musical film Christmas on the Square starring Dolly Parton for Netflix.
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