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ALLEYNE, EUNICE
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Eunice Alleyne

BIOGRAPHY

Eunice Alleyne was born in Venezuela. She moved to Trinidad with her parents at the age of two. After graduating from St. Joseph's Convent High School, she worked in radio at the Government Broadcasting Unit, and then as Director of Information in the Office of the Prime Minister with Dr. Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. As a young woman in this position, she received a government scholarship to study Mass Communications at Boston University.

All the while, during her working career in the public service, she was always involved in the theatre, something the nuns at St. Joseph Convent told her she should do because of her voice. Then, she did choral speaking in the Catholic Youth Organisation, and participated in prose and verse competitions.

She became  a founding member of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, which was founded in 1959 by late Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott. She has performed in numerous plays and toured extensively throughout the Caribbean, Canada and the US. In Europe she appeared in Derek Walcott's "The Odyssey" in Italy and in Spain, where she performed in Spanish. She is the recipient of the National Drama Association of Trinidad and Tobago (NDATT)'s 1998 Best Actress Cacique Award for "Remembrance", NDATT's 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award and the Emancipation Support Committee's Spirit of Emancipation Award for her contributions to local theatre. Her Film credits include Asha Lovelace's "Joebell and America", Horace Ove's "The Ghost of Hing King Estate", Horace Wilson's "Happy/Sad" and she was recently seen as Granny in Sally's Way (2015).

Courtesy IMDB.com and Buzz.tt
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FILMOGRAPHY

2015        SALLY's WAY                                                       GRANNY
2009        HappySAD                                                            ROMA 
2007        THE GHOST OF HING KING ESTATE        MAGISTRATE GITTENS


ONLINE RESOURCES

T&T Culture and Performing Arts Fraternity weigh in on Walcott’s passing
Alleyne keeps her skills sharp By Paula Lindo | Published: Sunday, May 15, 2016
​Cacique award-winning actress Eunice Alleyne back in the spotlight BY Tremaine Soca Warner | Published: Sunday, August 3, 2014The Monday Night Theatre Forum featuring Eunice Alleyne
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Cacique award-winning actress Eunice Alleyne at her home in Santa Cruz yesterday. PHOTOS: ABRAHAM DIAZ
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Eunice Alleyne (centre) as one of the "Sisters of the Revelation" from TTW's 1968 production of Dream on Monkey Mountain.
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Image credit: buzz.tt
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Screenshot of Eunice Alleyne in Derek Walccott's "Scenes from Omeros", 1999.
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From the left: Anne-Louise Tam, Belinda Barnes and Eunice Alleyne | Photo courtesy Trinidad Newsday
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From the left: Eintou Springer, Mavis John, Eunice Alleyne. Photo courtesy Paula Lindo
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