Funeral arrangements have been set for actress Clarice Taylor, who gained fame playing the grandmother on the ‘Cosby Show’ and Sesame Street’.
A public viewing will be held on Tuesday from noon to 4pm at Canaan Baptist Church on 116th Street in New York.
A private wake will be held from 5pm to 7pm followed by a funeral service.
Taylor died of congestive heart failure in her Englewood, NJ home last Monday.
Taylor earned an Emmy Award for her role as Anna Huxtable on the Cosby Show in 1986.
A performer on stage, radio, TV and film for over five decades, the actress was a member of the New York stage group, the Negro Ensemble Company, and helped to pave the way for African-American actors in the early 1960s.
Her own big break came that decade when she landed the role of Harriet, David’s grandmother, on Sesame Street. She also starred alongside Liza Minelli in 1970′s Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon and played Grady’s Cousin Emma on Sanford and Son.
Taylor is survived by her two sons, William and James, and her five grandchildren.
