“I used to not even have it on my resume but now, because of Marvel, it’s kind of a cult classic.” Then the movie flopped, and I started looking at graduate school,” she laughs. “It was a $100 million George Lucas film. At 5, she joined her father on “Sesame” (they cut her speaking role after she kept calling Gordon “Daddy”), and later she was a correspondent on “Kidzworld.” But it wasn’t until her final year in college that she landed what she believed was her big break: a role in “Howard the Duck.” But that performing bug was always there. Peete majored in French and psychology, and figured she’d do something with the language if all else failed. Her father pushed a college education and a backup plan. As “the only Black female in the room,” Peete’s mother insisted she present herself as “better and more honest than everybody else.” She also required her daughter to be nice to every single member of a TV crew.
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