Gimme a Break! was set in the fictional California suburb of Glenlawn. The series follows Carter’s character, Nell Harper, as she agrees to care for the family of her dying friend, Margaret Kanisky.

Before she became the lovable Nell Harper, Nell Carter had already made a name for herself in the world of entertainment. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1948, Carter began her career in theater, ...

Nell Carter, who played the sassy, matronly housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break!" and received a Tony Award in 1978 for her performance in the Broadway musical "Ain't Misbehavin'," died… By ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Nell Carter, who played the stout, sassy housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break!" and won a Tony Award in 1978 for her sultry turn in the Broadway musical "Ain't ...

How many Broadway shows has Nell Carter been in? Nell Carter has appeared on Broadway in 6 shows. How many West End shows has Nell Carter been in? Nell Carter has not appeared in the West End. What ...

Thursday, one of my heroes died. When I first saw Nell Carter perform I thought, I can do that. She made me breathless because she looked and sounded as I imagined myself. She was powerful, sexy, ...

The title of Nell Carter's program at Feinstein's at the Regency, is "Something for Everyone," and that just about says it all. With a generous balance of Broadway, country and jazz tunes, the lady ...

Gimme a Break! was a hit TV show that ran for six seasons from 1981 to 1987 on NBC. For the first four seasons, Dolph Sweet played police Chief Carl Kanisky, raising his three daughters after his wife ...

Actress-singer Nell Carter, who played the boisterous housekeeper Nell Harper on the TV sitcom Gimme a Break, has sold her home in Beverly Hills, Calif., to Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash. Carter was ...

More than three decades later, director Richard Maltby Jr. vividly remembers Birmingham's Nell Carter stepping into a room to audition for his production of "Ain't Misbehavin'." "First of all, in came ...

NO HIPS, Nell Carter warns the man who is about to take her picture. Her belting voice, the one that carried her to stardom on the New York stage, slices through a Disney rehearsal hall like a ...

Actress and singer Nell Carter died in her Beverly Hills, Ca. home Thursday at age 54. She is best known for her role as a sassy housekeeper on TV's Gimme a Break and her Tony-winning performance in ...