Tracee Ellis Ross is following her mother’s footsteps on screen. In her latest feel-good movie, The High Note, she plays R&B singer Grace Davis. “In doing the press once the movie came out I realized how much of a sort of connection there was between Grace Davis and my mom but it really didn’t dawn on me while the movie was happening and while I was working because I didn’t see her as the same as my mother,” Ross told HFPA journalist Anke Hofmann.

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