Brynda Mattox is an actress. She portrays Fezco's Grandmother in Euphoria.
Biography[]
Brynda Mattox has been an activist almost as long as she has been acting and producing. After receiving the prestigious Lexington Community Award which included a complete academic scholarship to Transylvania University in Lexington, KY, she continued her activist and artistic work there. She had leading roles in Kaufman and Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, Terrence Rattigan's Separate Tables and Berthold Brecht's Gallileo. In addition, she marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in March, 1963 which led to the integration of her college in the fall of 1964. Brynda became to the first woman to receive Transylvania's Outstanding Senior Award as well as another complete academic scholarship to Yale University Divinity School.
While at Yale, she started one of the first after school programs for at risk children in America in the Edgewood neighborhood in downtown New Haven, CT and initiated the Yale Cabaret Theatre in the International Student House where she performed Tennessee Williams' This Property Is Condemned, T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party and Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson. The next year the Yale Drama School started its Cabaret Theatre which is now a permanent fixture there. Brynda received Honor's in Public Speaking at Yale Divinity School and attended the first Vietnam War protest in Washington, D.C. in November, 1965 and was listed in the first edition of Outstanding Young Women in America that same year.
