Hazelle Goodman

Hazelle Goodman (born Hazel Goodman ) is an actress from Trinidad and Tobago.

In 1997, she became the first black actress to have a prominent role in a Woody Allen film when she portrayed Cookie, a prostitute in Allen's Deconstructing Harry.

Goodman also had a recurring role on Homicide: Life on the Street as Georgia Rae Mahoney, a key figure in a drug dealing family who is eventually murdered.

On stage, in addition to her one-woman show, she has also portrayed the Queen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline and took part in the February 10, 2001 staging of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at Madison Square Garden. Goodman wrote and starred in a second one-woman show called To the Top, Top, Top! She was also an original cast member of Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell, performing the late artist's monologues that primarily dealt with adventure.

Filmography

Film

Television