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Vida Spears

1956–

United States

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Vida Spears (born April 8, 1956) is an American television producer and writer. She is best known as the co-creator, with Ralph Farquhar and Sara Finney-Johnson, of the UPN sitcoms Moesha, starring Brandy, and The Parkers, starring Countess Vaughn and Mo'Nique. Before Moesha, Spears and Finney-Johnson had been a long-term writing team, the first African-American female writing team in the television industry.

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