Anne-Marie Johnson Tackles Ageism in Hollywood

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You frequently saw this actress & comedian on 80s/90s TV: Nadine Hudson-Thomas on spinoff What's Happening Now!!, Althea Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night, plus Hill Street Blues, In Living Color, Melrose Place, Days of our Lives and more.

Moving into the 2000' she was Liz Shelton on Tyler Perry's House of Payne and That's So Raven, and in this very episode of Media Path Podcast and we do get into it all!

Why was her character killed off of Melrose Place? She was told it was because the producers did not know how to write for black characters! Was her experience on Mad About You pleasant? No! Helen Hunt was a nightmare. She absolutely adored working with Raven Symone and with the cast of Diff’rent Strokes. She had a blast collaborating with Keenen Ivory Wayans in the creation of the iconic hooker, Cherry in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and Anne-Marie gifts us with a blow-by-blow account of how her Oprah knockoff character on Living Single generated a studio audience laugh that lasted for five minutes!

Anne-Marie is starring in a new film called, The Addiction of Hope, written and directed by her husband, Martin Grey. It’s the story of an aging actress who, as roles diminish, is forced to reexamine her life, her priorities and her choices while her sister faces a health crisis. Anne-Marie takes on a rousing round of IMDB Roulette and in recommendations, Lisa loves the new Emily Catalano standup special, Weezy is obsessed with the best-selling novel, Theo of Golden by Allen Levi and both of our hosts vow to explore Funny AF with Kevin Hart on Netflix.