Yvette Wilson,died of cervical cancer at 48 - Before she started her career within the entertainment business, Wilson attended San Jose State University and majored in communications. Wilson initial entered comedy when she lost a bet and had to perform as a comic at a friend's club. She determined to form a living off comedy and never turned back.

Yvette Wilson (March half dozen, 1964 – June fourteen, 2012) was an yank comedian and actress. She was best known for her role as Andell Wilkerson on the UPN sitcom Moesha and its spinoff The Parkers. She has appeared on several comedy films like House Party a pair of, House Party three, Friday, and on Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam.

Her massive break came with Thea, a short-lived sitcom in 1993. Thea was cancelled once nineteen episodes however the expertise helped her get a task in House Party three. additionally, Wilson additionally had a minor role within the 1995 comedy movie Friday as Smokey's blind date and appeared in films like Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson, and therefore the film parody do not be a Menace to South Central whereas Drinking Your Juice within the Hood.

In 1996, she took on the foremost necessary role of her career: Andell Wilkerson, a supporting character on the sitcom Moesha, that starred one in all her castmates from Thea, R&B singer Brandy Norwood. Wilson's Andell character was the owner of The Den, an area teen hot spot on the show. In 2000, she left Moesha for its spin-off The Parkers, where she would portray the simplest friend of Mo'Nique's character Nikki Parker. once the cancellation of The Parkers, she went on to look in shows like HBO's Def Comedy Jam and Fox Network shows.

Wilson's smart friend, Jeffrey Pittle, confirmed the news that Wilson had passed in an exceedingly statement on a web site he got wind of to assist raise funds for her treatment. "It is with an important heart that I will verify that Yvette passed on to the great beyond last evening once a lengthy and exhausting battle," he wrote. "She was a fighter to the top, and her talent, humor and wonderful friendship are going to be sorely missed. she is going to live to tell the tale through her awesome body of labor."

Born on March half dozen, 1964, in l.  a.  , Wilson backed her method into acting by taking a friend's dare to try to to stand-up comedy and then landing a spot on the short-lived sitcom "Thea." That helped her book bit components in movies as well as "House Party 2" and its sequel, "Friday," "Poetic Justice" and "Don't Be a Menace to South Central whereas Drinking Your Juice within the Hood."

Those gigs won her the a part of Wilkerson on "Moesha," where she endorsed her younger charge whereas keeping an eye fixed on the children at the Den. She parlayed that into a co-starring role alongside Mo'Nique on "The Parkers." When Wilson's cancer crisis got serious once years of battles with kidney failure and kidney transplants, Pittle started a web site to boost cash for her treatment. Dubbing it the "Yvette Wilson CANCER SUCKS FUND," the location had raised nearly thirty % of its $50,000 goal at the time of her death.

A number of her friends and admirers tweeted tributes, as well as "Moesha" co-star Shar Jackson, who wrote, "F--- Cancer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... oh god ... my heart is soooo unbelievably broken ... I wanna thank all my tweeties for his or her prayers however god has chosen to require my sister Yvette home."
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