- She played the role of Elizabeth Harvey in Roots: The Next Generations (1979) from the age of 15 in 1882 to the age of 83 in 1950.
- As of 2009, she's the sole African-American actress to be honored with a Daytime Emmy for her work in a daytime drama series. She won the 1989 Daytime Emmy in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" for her work as Dr. Angela "Angie" Hubbard (née Baxter) on ABC's All My Children (1970) in a tie with Nancy Lee Grahn who won for her work as feminist attorney "Julia Wainwright Capwell" on the long-defunct NBC daytime drama Santa Barbara (1984). And, in 2009, she made daytime television history by becoming the first African-American actress to be nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" category for her work as Dr. Angela "Angie" Hubbard on All My Children (1970). She lost out to Susan Haskell (as Dr. Margaret "Marty" Saybrooke on ABC's One Life to Live (1968)), longtime partner of Morgan's now-former All My Children (1970) cast-mate Thorsten Kaye.
- Parents: Lora Morgan and George Morgan Jr.
- Her father died of leukemia in 1965.
- Has one younger sister: Terry Morgan-Grant.
- Met her former husband, photographer Donn Thompson, when she was posing for the June 1995 cover of "Black Elegance".
- Her cousin Kendra Boleware-Skinner was only 28 years old when she died from cancer.
- Her Jamaican accent on Charmed (1998) is not real.
- Ranks fifth in having the most Daytime Emmy nominations for acting on AMC. The Top 5 are: Susan Lucci (21 noms), David Canary (16 noms), Julia Barr (8 noms); James Mitchell and Michael E. Knight (7 noms); and Debbi Morgan (5 noms). All but Mitchell won at least once.
- June 23, 2015: The release of her memoir from Infinite Words publishing, "The Monkey on My Back".
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