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Her first feature film role was Godspell ( 1973 ) co-starring opposite Victor Garber and David Haskell.
She appeared notably as the omniscient Radio DJ in The Warriors, and as ( Leonna Barrett ) the mother of an expelled student in Lean on Me, a story of famous American principal Joe Louis Clark.
She had a role in Shaft, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, as the murder victim's mother.
She also played the Second President of the world council in Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ).
Her last film was Anger Management ( 2003 ) starring Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson ( which was released only a month following her death and paid tribute to her in the end credits ).
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