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You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

Lorraine Toussaint

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Lorraine Toussaint
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: April 4
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
History
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Reduce
Historical
Characters
Ordinary

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