Marsha A. Hunt

Marsha A. Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American model, singer, novelist and actress. Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia near 23rd and Columbia then in Germantown and Mount Airy for the first thirteen years of her life. Hunt still remembers Philadelphia with affection, particularly the "Philadelphia steak sandwiches and the bad boys on the basketball court". Hunt's mother Inez was her primary pa... more

Marsha A. Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an American model, singer, novelist and actress. Hunt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946 and lived in North Philadelphia near 23rd and Columbia then in Germantown and Mount Airy for the first thirteen years of her life. Hunt still remembers Philadelphia with affection, particularly the "Philadelphia steak sandwiches and the bad boys on the basketball court". Hunt's mother Inez was her primary parent and worked as a librarian in a local library. Hunt's father Blaire Theodore Hunt, Jr., was one of America's first black psychiatrists but he did not live with Hunt and she found out when she was 15 years old that he had committed suicide three years previously. Hunt was brought up by her mother, her aunt and her grandmother, three strong, but very different women. Hunt describes her mother Ikey as "extremely intelligent and education-minded", her Aunt Thelma as "extremely Catholic but very glamorous" and her grandmother Edna as an ... less