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	== After Carol City ==		== After Carol City ==

			[[File:jo marie family matters.jpeg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Payton, top row center in the black hat and pink top, with the cast of Family Matters.]]

	Payton left Miami for Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.<ref name="local10" /> After college she moved to California and joined the national touring company of the Broadway musical ''Purlie'', which starred Robert Guillaume.<ref name="imdb" />		Payton left Miami for Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.<ref name="local10" /> After college she moved to California and joined the national touring company of the Broadway musical ''Purlie'', which starred Robert Guillaume.<ref name="imdb" />

	~~[[File:jo marie family matters.jpeg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Payton, top row center in the black hat and pink top, with the cast of Family Matters.]]~~

	Her break came in 1987, when she was cast as Harriette Winslow, an elevator operator, on the ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers''.<ref name="imdb" /> Audiences responded to the character, and ABC spun Harriette off into her own series. ''Family Matters'' premiered in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<ref name="imdb" />		Her break came in 1987, when she was cast as Harriette Winslow, an elevator operator, on the ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers''.<ref name="imdb" /> Audiences responded to the character, and ABC spun Harriette off into her own series. ''Family Matters'' premiered in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<ref name="imdb" />

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	Payton left Miami for Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.<ref name="local10" /> After college she moved to California and joined the national touring company of the Broadway musical ''Purlie'', which starred Robert Guillaume.<ref name="imdb" />		Payton left Miami for Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.<ref name="local10" /> After college she moved to California and joined the national touring company of the Broadway musical ''Purlie'', which starred Robert Guillaume.<ref name="imdb" />

			[[File:jo marie family matters.jpeg\|300px\|thumb\|right\|Payton, top row center in the black hat and pink top, with the cast of Family Matters.]]

	Her break came in 1987, when she was cast as Harriette Winslow, an elevator operator, on the ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers''.<ref name="imdb" /> Audiences responded to the character, and ABC spun Harriette off into her own series. ''Family Matters'' premiered in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<ref name="imdb" />		Her break came in 1987, when she was cast as Harriette Winslow, an elevator operator, on the ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers''.<ref name="imdb" /> Audiences responded to the character, and ABC spun Harriette off into her own series. ''Family Matters'' premiered in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<ref name="imdb" />

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	{{DISPLAYTITLE:Jo Marie Payton}}		{{DISPLAYTITLE:Jo Marie Payton}}
	{{Alumni infobox		{{Alumni infobox
	\| name = Jo Marie Payton		\| name = Jo Marie Payton
	\| image = jo marie head shot.jpeg		\| image = jo marie head shot.jpeg
	\| class = 1968		\| class = 1968
	\| college = Albany State University		\| college = Albany State University
	}}		}}
	Jo Marie Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968 and went on to play Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the Winslow family, on the ABC and CBS sitcom ''Family Matters'' from 1989 to 1997. She is also the voice of Suga Mama Proud on Disney's animated series ''The Proud Family'' and its Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.		Jo Marie Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968 and went on to play Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the Winslow family, on the ABC and CBS sitcom ''Family Matters'' from 1989 to 1997. She is also the voice of Suga Mama Proud on Disney's animated series ''The Proud Family'' and its Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.

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	{{Alumni infobox		{{Alumni infobox
	\| name = Jo Marie Payton		\| name = Jo Marie Payton
			\| image = jo marie head shot.jpeg
	\| class = 1968		\| class = 1968
	\| college = Albany State University		\| college = Albany State University

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	Jo Marie Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968 and went on to play Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the Winslow family, on the ABC and CBS sitcom ''Family Matters'' from 1989 to 1997. She is also the voice of Suga Mama Proud on Disney's animated series ''The Proud Family'' and its Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.		Jo Marie Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968 and went on to play Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the Winslow family, on the ABC and CBS sitcom ''Family Matters'' from 1989 to 1997. She is also the voice of Suga Mama Proud on Disney's animated series ''The Proud Family'' and its Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Jo Marie Payton}}

{{Alumni infobox
| name = Jo Marie Payton
| class = 1968
| college = Albany State University
}}

Jo Marie Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968 and went on to play Harriette Baines Winslow, the matriarch of the Winslow family, on the ABC and CBS sitcom ''Family Matters'' from 1989 to 1997. She is also the voice of Suga Mama Proud on Disney's animated series ''The Proud Family'' and its Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.

Payton is occasionally credited as JoMarie Payton. Through four marriages she has also used the surnames Payton-France, Payton-Noble, and Payton-Downs.

== Early life ==

Jo Marie Payton was born August 3, 1950, in Albany, Georgia, to Driscoll Payton, a construction worker, and Frankie Bell Payton, who worked as a maid. She was the second of nine children.<ref name="local10" /> The family moved to [[opa-locka|Opa-locka]], Florida, when she was three months old, and most of her siblings were born there.<ref name="local10" />

'''[UNVERIFIED]''' Before Carol City, Payton attended [[north dade junior senior high school|North Dade Junior/Senior High School]] in [[bunche park|Bunche Park]].

== Carol City ==

Payton graduated from Miami Carol City Senior High School in 1968.<ref name="local10" />

She was a Carol City student on April 4 of that year, the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. In a 2023 interview with WPLG Local 10, Payton recalled learning the news as a student and said she still remembered the pain of the day decades later.<ref name="local10" />

== After Carol City ==

Payton left Miami for Albany State University in Albany, Georgia.<ref name="local10" /> After college she moved to California and joined the national touring company of the Broadway musical ''Purlie'', which starred Robert Guillaume.<ref name="imdb" />

Her break came in 1987, when she was cast as Harriette Winslow, an elevator operator, on the ABC sitcom ''Perfect Strangers''.<ref name="imdb" /> Audiences responded to the character, and ABC spun Harriette off into her own series. ''Family Matters'' premiered in 1989 and ran for nine seasons.<ref name="imdb" />

Payton played Harriette opposite Reginald VelJohnson as Chicago police officer Carl Winslow. She left the show partway through its final season and appeared for the last time on December 19, 1997.<ref name="imdb" />

From 2001, Payton voiced Suga Mama Proud on Disney's ''The Proud Family'', a role she reprised in the 2005 feature ''The Proud Family Movie'' and in the 2022 Disney+ revival ''The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder''.<ref name="imdb" />

Her other television credits include ''Moesha'', ''Will & Grace'', ''The Parkers'', ''Girlfriends'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Judging Amy'', ''7th Heaven'', and ''The Jamie Foxx Show''.<ref name="imdb" /> She has been nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award.<ref name="local10" />

== Community and honors ==

Payton served as grand marshal of Miami's Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in [[liberty city|Liberty City]] on January 16, 2023. It was her second time in the role, about 25 years after she first led the parade.<ref name="local10" />

'''[UNVERIFIED]''' Payton is credited with founding the Frankie Payton Scholarship Fund at Albany State University in honor of her mother.

== References ==

<references>
<ref name="local10">Yutzy, Eric. "Actress Jo Marie Payton serves as Miami's MLK Day Parade grand marshal." ''WPLG Local 10''. January 16, 2023. https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/01/16/actress-jo-marie-payton-serves-as-miamis-mlk-day-parade-grand-marshal/</ref>
<ref name="imdb">"Jo Marie Payton." ''IMDb''. Accessed April 2026. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668534/</ref>
</references>