Ruth Alice Gilbert Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ronnie Gilbert was born on September 7, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA as Ruth Alice Gilbert. She was an actress, known for Running on Empty (1988), Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999) and Isadora (1968). She was married to Donna Abbe Korones and Martin Stanley Weg. She died on...
At 16, she moved to Washington, D.C., and lived in the home of a friend of her mother, where she met other musicians and sang in a folk group called the Priority Ramblers. Later, she and Fred Hellerman met as counselors at a New Jersey summer camp. In New York they joined a community of folk singers and musicians.
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She grew up in and around New York City. Her parents were immigrants who separated when she was 11. Her father was from the Ukraine, and worked as a milliner. Her mother, from Poland, was a garment worker, a union activist and a member of the Communist Party. She took her daughter, about 10 at the time, to a union rally at which Paul Robeson sang, an event Gilbert later recalled as "transformative".
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After the Weavers broke up in 1964, she became active in the theater. She earned an M.A. in psychology in the 1970s and worked as therapist. Beginning in the 1980s, she recorded and performed often with the folk singer and activist Holly Near.
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She was a founding member of the Weavers, the seminal quartet that helped propel folk music to wider popularity and establish its influence as an agent of social change.
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Survived by a daughter, Lisa, and Donna Korones, her partner of 30 years.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Civil War
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Various
Running on Empty
1988
Mrs. Taylor
Crossing Delancey
1988
Mugger #2
Club Life
1986
Mace
Camera Three
1971
TV Series
Sycorax
Isadora
1968
Miss Chase
Windflowers
1968
Mother
Danger Woman
1946
Reporter (uncredited)
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Horror Story
2012
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Sing Your Song
2011
Documentary writer: "Sylvie Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvie"
Tohuwabohu
1998
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Chicago Hope
1997
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
Documentary performer: "They All Sang Bread and Roses"
The Dean Martin Show
1970
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Lux Show
1957
TV Series lyrics - 1 episode
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Wrong Side of Town
2010
Video thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Folk America
2009
TV Series documentary
Herself
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Documentary
Herself
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Documentary
Herself (The Weavers)
Tell Them Who You Are
2004
Documentary
Herself
Peter, Paul, and Mary: Carry It on - A Musical Legacy
2004
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
1999
TV Series documentary
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Great Performances
1996
TV Series
Herself
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
1990
Documentary
Narrator (voice)
The Congress
1988
TV Movie documentary voice
Arena
1988
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Women of Summer
1985
Documentary
Herself
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Documentary
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1981
Documentary
Herself
Festival
1967
Documentary
Herself
Land of Promise
1960
TV Movie documentary
Herself
The Faye Emerson Show
1950
TV Series
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Carnegie Hall at 100: A Place of Dreams
1991
Video documentary
Herself (as The Weavers)
Known for movies
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony (1999) as Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Running on Empty (1988) as Mrs. Taylor
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1990) as Narrator
$9 Million
