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Actress Ruby Dee attends the world premiere of "American Gangster" at the Apollo Theater, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) ( Premiere American Gangster NY )

Actress Ruby Dee Davis received a Doctor of Fine Arts honorary degree during Princeton University's 262nd Commencement Tuesday, June 2, 2009, in Princeton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) ( Graduation Princeton Davis People )

Actress Ruby Dee attends Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball at the Bacara Resort and Spa on May 14, 2005 in Santa Barbara, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images) ( 52798938FB081_opa )

Ruby Dee, right, and husband Ossie Davis accept their Screen Actors Guild 37th annual Life Achievement Award at the 7th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, Sunday, March 11, 2001, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) ( SCREEN ACTORS AWARDS )

Actress Ruby Dee, left, and director Billie Allen are shown together during an interview Thursday, July 12, 2001, in New York. The two 76-year-old women brought their decades of experience to a production of a new four-act play "Saint Lucy's Eyes" at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan. Dee and Allen said they feel a deep connection with the play's character "Grandma," a black grandmother in Memphis who performs abortions. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) ( SAINT LUCYS EYES )

Actress Ruby Dee is joined by her husband Ossie Davis at a New York news conference, Tuesday Oct. 15, 2002. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) ( PEOPLE DAVIS DEE )

Ruby Dee is seen backstage with the Chairman's award at the 39th NAACP Image Awards on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) ( NAACP Image Awards Press Room )

Actress Ruby Dee reads from Ralph Ellison's "The Invisible Man" during the unveiling of a sculpture honoring the acclaimed author Thursday, May 1, 2003, in front of his longtime home in West Harlem. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ( ELLISON MEMORIAL )

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis arrive for a memeorial celebration honoring the artistic legacy of Gregory Hines Sunday Sept. 21, 2003 at New York's Apollo Theater. Hines died at age 57. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ( GREGORY HINES TRIBUTE )

Recipients of the 27th annual Kennedy Center Honors pose for a group photo following a dinner celebrating their lifetime achievements in the arts, at the State Department in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004. From left to right in front are: singer and composer Elton John; actress Ruby Dee; and soprano Joan Sutherland. Standing at rear, left to right are: actor, producer, writer and director Warren Beatty; actor, writer and producer Ossie Davis; and composer and conductor John Williams. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ( KENNEDY CENTER HONORS )

Actress Ruby Dee accepts an award on behalf of her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, at the 2005 Film Life Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) ( BLACK MOVIE AWARDS )

Actress Ruby Dee attends the world premiere of "American Gangster" at the Apollo Theater, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) ( Premiere American Gangster NY )

Actors Ruby Dee, left, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, center, and Phylicia Rashad, all had roles Showtime programming, pose for a photograph at the Rainbow Room in New York on Friday, Feb. 20, 1998. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel) ( DEE POITIER RASHAD )

Actress Ruby Dee arrives at the 2007 New York Film Critic's Circle Awards at Spotlight in Times Square, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2008, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer) ( 2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards )

Actors and activists Ruby Dee, second from right, and her husband Ossie Davis, left, wait to be arrested while protesting Tuesday March 23, 1999, at New York's police headquarters. More than 300 people had been arrested in protests which organizers said were held until the officers who killed Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, were arrested. (AP Photo/Adam Nadel) ( FORTY ONE BULLETS )

Actress Ruby Dee, nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actress, for "American Gangster," poses for a photograph in Beverly Hills Calif., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian) ( Oscars Portrait )

Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actress Ruby Dee, left, and baseball Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, right, receive their Beacon Awards prior to the Civil Rights Game exhibition baseball game Saturday, March 29, 2008, in Memphis, Tenn. The Beacon Award is given, by Major League Baseball, to individuals for their efforts on behalf of civil rights throughout the world. The late John H. Johnson, founder of Johnson Publishing, also received the honor. (AP Photo/Bill Waugh) ( White Sox Mets Spring Baseball )

Actress Ruby Dee and musician Bela Fleck performs at a benefit concert celebrating Pete Seeger's 90th birthday at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, May 3, 2009 in New York. The concert is a benefit for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, created by Seeger to preserve and protect the Hudson River. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini) ( Pete Seeger Benefit Concert )

In this June 14, 2010 file photo, actress Ruby Dee arrives at the Apollo Theater for the Spring 2010 Benefit Concert and Awards Ceremony in New York. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano, file) ( TV BET Black Girls Rock )

In this Jan. 27, 2008 file photo, Ruby Dee poses with the award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a supporting role for her work in "American Gangster" at the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file) ( Obit-Ruby Dee )

From left to right Ossie Davis, Correta Scott King, Percy Sutton and Ruby Dee chatting during a New York Council of Minority Builders reception on Sunday, Jan. 16, 1984 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York. The Council of Minority builders presented a donation to Coretta Scott King for the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change. (AP Photo/Ray Stubblebine) ( Ruby Dee )

Ossie Davis, left, and Ruby Dee pose in front of their movie poster at the opening night gala of their film "Gone Are the Days!" at the Trans-Lux East Theater on Sept. 23, 1963. The movie, starring the married couple, is based on Davis's play "Purlie Victorious." (AP Photo) ( OSSIE DAVIS RUBY DEE )