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Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World. Born to an African American father and Portuguese American mother, Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School (now North Atlanta High School). Her mother is Jaye Rudolph (1930-), a former high school teacher, and her father, the Reverend William Guy (1928-), was pastor of the historic Friendship... MORE

Jasmine Guy (born March 10, 1962) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World. Born to an African American father and Portuguese American mother, Guy was raised in the affluent historic Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, where she attended the former Northside Performing Arts High School (now North Atlanta High School). Her mother is Jaye Rudolph (1930-), a former high school teacher, and her father, the Reverend William Guy (1928-), was pastor of the historic Friendship Baptist Church of Atlanta, which served as an early home to Spelman College. At the age of 17, she moved to New York City to study dance at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center. She married Terrence Duckett in 1998, and the couple had one child, a girl named Imani, born in 1999. On April 8, 2008, People reported that the actress and her husband of nearly 10 years were divorcing due to irreconcilable differences. Guy and her daughter live in Atlanta. Jasmine Guy was a good friend of slain rapper Tupac Shakur, whom she met through her costar on A Different World, Jada Pinkett Smith. Guy collaborated LESS