Tracey Ellis Ross Bio - Biography

Name	Tracey Ellis Ross
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	29-October-1972
Place of Birth	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Famous for	Acting

Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress. She is best known for her lead role as Joan Clayton on the UPN/CW series, Girlfriends. Also, she was recently known for starring as Dr. Carla Reed on the new BET sitcom Reed Between the Lines.
Born Tracee Joy Silberstein in Los Angeles, California, she is the daughter of legendary Motown singer/actress Diana Ross and music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein. Actor and musician Evan Ross is her half-brother. Her father is Jewish and her mother is African-American.
Ross attended the Dalton School in Manhattan and the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland. She was a model in her teens.
She attended Brown University where she appeared in plays, and graduated in 1994 with a theatre degree. She later worked in the fashion industry, as a model and contributing fashion editor to Mirabella and New York magazine. She also featured in the video of the 1996 dance hit Macarena by Los del Rio, as one of the ten female dancers.