# Debbi Morgan
**Debbi Morgan** (birth name Deborah Morgan) is an American actress born in 1956 in Dunn, North Carolina, best known for her long-running role as Dr. Angie Baxter Hubbard on the daytime drama *All My Children*, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits). Her film work includes the clairvoyant Mozelle Batiste Delacroix in *[Eve's Bayou](https://www.edgepedia.org/eves-bayou)* (1997), for which she won the Independent Spirit Award and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress[3](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527). She is also the author of the memoir *The Monkey on My Back*[3](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527).
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956, Dunn, North Carolina; birth name Deborah Morgan; moved to New York City at three months old[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/) |
| Signature role | Dr. Angie Baxter Hubbard on ABC's *All My Children*, 1982–2011, 508 episodes[2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits) |
| Daytime Emmy | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, 1989, for *All My Children*; four nominations and one win for the role[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/) |
| Film honors | Independent Spirit Award and Chicago Film Critics Association Award for *Eve's Bayou* (1997)[3](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527) |
| Historic nomination | In 2009, the first African-American actress nominated for the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/) |
| Memoir | *The Monkey on My Back*, an autobiography spanning three generations of women[3](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527) |
| Recent work | Estelle in *Power* (2014–2020) and *Power Book II: Ghost* (2020–2023); Olivia in *Beauty in Black* (2024–2026)[2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits) |
## Early life
Morgan was born in Dunn, North Carolina, the daughter of George Morgan Jr., a butcher, and Lora Morgan, a teacher, and moved to New York City when she was three months old[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956) • [4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/). She attended Herbert H. Lehman College of the [City University of New York](https://www.edgepedia.org/city-university-of-new-york)[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956). An early television role was [Alex Haley](https://www.edgepedia.org/alex-haley)'s great-aunt Elizabeth Harvey in the mini-series *Roots: The Next Generations* (1979)[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/).
## All My Children and daytime television
Morgan joined ABC's *All My Children* in 1982 as Angie Baxter, a role she played across 508 episodes through 2011[2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits). Her pairing with [Darnell Williams](https://www.edgepedia.org/darnell-williams)'s Jesse Hubbard drew a large following; the Associated Press later wrote that Williams's fan base "exploded after Debbi Morgan was cast as Angie Baxter"[5](https://apnews.com/article/d7369f7a60a0a992483294acb950ef6d). [TV Guide](https://www.edgepedia.org/tv-guide) has described her as daytime's first Black female superstar[6](https://www.tvguide.com/news/childrens-debbi-morgan-1034256/).
The role brought a sequence of nominations and one win: a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination and a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1986, the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1989, and a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in 1990[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956). In 2009 she made daytime television history as the first African-American actress nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her work as Dr. Angie Hubbard[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/), and she was nominated again in that category in 2011, when the nominations list credited "Debbi Morgan, as Angie Hubbard" for *All My Children*[7](https://images1.variety.com/graphics/photos/daytime_emmy_noms_2011.pdf).
She left *All My Children* in 1990 to join NBC's *Generations* as the lawyer Chantal Marshall[8](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-22-ca-1859-story.html), and in 1993 reprised her award-winning Angie role on ABC's *Loving*[9](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/debbi-morgan/).
## Film work
Morgan's best-known film role is Mozelle Batiste Delacroix, the psychic aunt in [Kasi Lemmons](https://www.edgepedia.org/kasi-lemmons)'s *Eve's Bayou* (1997), set in an affluent Louisiana bayou family in the 1960s[10](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-21-ls-44927-story.html). In the story, the young heroine turns first to her aunt Mozelle, a psychic whose clients are women abandoned by their men, and then to a voodoo woman played by [Diahann Carroll](https://www.edgepedia.org/diahann-carroll)[11](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-18-ca-9029-story.html). The Los Angeles Times review singled her out as "most vividly" rendered among the cast, playing the gorgeous, fiery sister of [Samuel L. Jackson](https://www.edgepedia.org/samuel-l-jackson)'s character[12](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-25-tv-35865-story.html). Film Comment has assessed her turn as a great performance of a kind hardly ever recognized, neither ingénue nor overdue, and not a masquerading lead[13](https://www.filmcomment.com/on-debbi-morgan-in-eves-bayou-1997/). The role won her the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with a Golden Satellite Award nomination and an NAACP Image Award nomination, all in 1998[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956).
Her other film credits include Mae Thelma in *The Hurricane* (1999), which brought an NAACP Image Award nomination in 2000, and Nona McCall in *Love & Basketball* (2000)[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits). On television she won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 for *Soul Food*, after a 1996 nomination for *The City*[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956).
## Later career
Morgan's television work in the 2010s and 2020s has been steady across network and streaming productions. She played Estelle in *Power* from 2014 to 2020 and reprised the role as Estelle Green in *Power Book II: Ghost* from 2020 to 2023[2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits). Her credits also include Patricia "Aunt Piggy" Williams in *Our Kind of People* (2021–2022), Franky in *Keyshia Cole: This Is My Story* (2023), Gene in [Tyler Perry](https://www.edgepedia.org/tyler-perry)'s *[Divorce in the Black](https://www.edgepedia.org/divorce-in-the-black)* (2024), and Olivia in *Beauty in Black* (2024–2026)[2](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits). The Associated Press listed her among celebrity birthdays in 2025 as an actor known for *Power*[14](https://apnews.com/article/33b07b9bcf16eecb6ecef5b82af6881b).
## Memoir and personal life
Morgan's memoir, *The Monkey on My Back*, is described by her publisher as a deeply personal autobiography spanning three generations of women[3](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527). She has been married three times according to the record compiled by Encyclopedia.com: to the actor Charles Weldon (divorced), to the actor [Charles S. Dutton](https://www.edgepedia.org/charles-s-dutton) on December 31, 1989 (divorced 1994), and to the photographer Donn Thompson on March 15, 1997[1](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956). IMDb lists a later marriage to Jeffery Winston on June 6, 2009[4](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/).
## References
1. [Morgan, Debbi 1956–, Encyclopedia.com](https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/morgan-debbi-1956)
2. [Debbi Morgan, Full Credits, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/fullcredits)
3. [Debbi Morgan, Official Publisher Page, Simon & Schuster](https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Debbi-Morgan/1812527)
4. [Debbi Morgan, Biography, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005247/bio/)
5. ['Beyond the Gates' is renewed as veteran Black soap actors cheer its success, Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/d7369f7a60a0a992483294acb950ef6d)
6. [All My Children's Debbi Morgan Talks Emmys, Cancellation and That Sony Rumor, TV Guide](https://www.tvguide.com/news/childrens-debbi-morgan-1034256/)
7. [2011 Daytime Emmy nominations, Variety](https://images1.variety.com/graphics/photos/daytime_emmy_noms_2011.pdf)
8. [SHORT TAKES: Morgan Leaves 'All My Children', Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-02-22-ca-1859-story.html)
9. [Debbi Morgan, TV Insider](https://www.tvinsider.com/people/debbi-morgan/)
10. [Now, for Something Completely Different, Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-21-ls-44927-story.html)
11. [Thanks for the Memories, Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-feb-18-ca-9029-story.html)
12. ['Eve's Bayou', Los Angeles Times](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-25-tv-35865-story.html)
13. [On Debbi Morgan in Eve's Bayou (1997), Film Comment](https://www.filmcomment.com/on-debbi-morgan-in-eves-bayou-1997/)
14. [Celebrity birthdays for the week of Sept. 14-20, Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/33b07b9bcf16eecb6ecef5b82af6881b)
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