Jo Marie Payton

The actress born in Georgia gained her fame in the television industry when she played the role of Harriette Baines Winslow on Family Matters. In the show, she played Carl Winslow’s wife, Rachel Crawford’s big sister, adoptive mother of 3J, and biological mother of Eddie, Laura, and Judy. This famous character became one of the most iconic fictional mothers in sitcom history because of her high regard for being a working woman and a mother at the same time.

After leaving the show, Payton continued to work and stayed active with numerous television and film credits. One of her famous works was being the voice for Suga Mama in the animated Disney Channel show The Proud Family. In 2019, she did another voice work in the animated television series Blaze and the Monster Machines and played a judge in The Beach Bum. Last year, she appeared in a TV Movie called Christmas in Solvang. Her latest role will be in the movie Heart of a Champion.