Versatile Actress Rosalind Cash Dies

Rosalind Cash, an original member of the Negro Ensemble Company and one of its most vibrant and versatile actresses, died of cancer Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 56.

Although she was best known for her acting in naturalistic dramas like Lonne Elder III’s “Ceremonies in Dark Old Men,” Cash was equally at home in musicals and in classics, portraying Goneril to James Earl Jones’ King Lear for the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1973.

Her movies included “Klute,” “The Omega Man,” “Hickey and Boggs,” “The New Centurions,” “Uptown Saturday Night” and “Wrong Is Right” (in which she played the first black woman to become vice president of the United States). In 1995, she was in “Tales From the ‘Hood.”