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    Anna Deavere Smith talks about taking on real people and Shondaland

    by Sarah Rodman, Los Angeles Times Feb 20, 2018 5 minutes

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Anna Deavere Smith has lived many lives as an actress for hire, moving fluidly among stage, film and television. The Baltimore native has inhabited memorable characters in "The American President" and "Rachel Getting Married" and on "Nurse Jackie," "The West Wing" and most recently "black-ish." (She joins the Shondaland production "For the People," premiering March 13 on ABC.)

    As a playwright and solo performer of her own works, she has given life to dozens more; Deavere Smith's award-winning one-woman stage productions include "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" and 2008's "Let Me Down Easy."

    Her latest, "Notes From the Field," makes the transition from stage to HBO on Saturday. To examine a host of thorny issues including race, police shootings and the high

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