A bite to eat with her history-making Emmy Isabel Sanford and Sherman Hemsley at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium for the Emmys in 1981. (Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images) ...

Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as "Weezie," Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons," died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday. She was 86. Sanford died Friday at ...

Isabel Sanford, the first black woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a comedy series for her co-starring role in "The Jeffersons," has died.

LOS ANGELES — Actress Isabel Sanford, best known to audiences for her role as the quick-witted wife Louise "Weezy" Jefferson on the television sitcom The Jeffersons, has died at age 86, her ...

Isabel Sanford — who died at 86 of natural causes July 9 in L.A. — shared screen time with the likes of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. But it was her 14-year run as TV’s Louise ...

Actress Isabel Sanford, best known as “Weezie,” Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom “The Jeffersons,” died of natural causes, her publicist said Monday.