It was rumored that the Gimme a Break! producers were concerned about Nell Carter's challenges with drugs, binge eating, rapidly fluctuating weight, and a self-destructive lifestyle.

Carter adopted the two boys shortly after their births – two months apart – in 1990. She says of them now, love apparent between her words, “They’re little men now – very opinionated.

If the '80s sitcom 'Gimme a Break!' ever saw a reboot, Nell Carter would be conspicuously absent. The star met an untimely death in 2003.

Helena Bonham Carter and her daughter Nell enjoyed a special evening together at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Preview Party in London. The pair posed for pictures together on the carpet.

'Gimme a Break!' star Nell Carter has died at age 54, her publicist said Thursday. She collapsed in her Beverly Hills home and was found by one of her 13-year-old adopted sons.

Nell Carter, the bubbly, plus-size star of TV’s “Gimme a Break!” and Broadway’s “Ain’t Misbehavin,’ ” died yesterday at the age of 54. The Tony-winne… ...

She has grown up almost entirely out of the spotlight, but Helena Bonham Carter's daughter, Nell, just made a rare appearance—and she is the perfect mix of her famous parents.

Nell Carter, who became a Broadway star in 1978 with her sassy, Tony Award-winning turn in the Fats Waller musical revue "Ain't Misbehavin,' " then extended her fame during the 1980s playing Nell ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Nell Carter, who played the stout, sassy housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom "Gimme a Break!" and won a Tony Award in 1978 for her sultry turn in the Broadway musical "Ain't ...

More than three decades later, director Richard Maltby Jr. vividly remembers Birmingham's Nell Carter stepping into a room to audition for his production of "Ain't Misbehavin'." "First of all, in ...

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