Terrence Duckett is the former husband of actress Jasmine Guy and the father of their daughter, Imani. The couple married in 1998 and divorced in 2008, according to PEOPLE’s account of the family’s history.
The HistoryMakers’ biographical account of Guy also documents the marriage and their daughter’s birth the following year. PEOPLE identifies him by the fuller name Terrence Mitchell Duckett, a useful distinction for readers encountering different versions of his name.
Marriage to Jasmine Guy
Duckett and Guy married on 22 August 1998, according to the Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television entry hosted by Encyclopedia.com. The HistoryMakers corroborates the year, placing the wedding within its account of Guy’s family life.
Guy is the actress known for playing Whitley Gilbert in A Different World. Her marriage to Duckett belongs to her personal history, separate from the television character through whom many viewers first knew her.
For readers also asking about Guy’s background, Encyclopedia.com describes her father as Black and her mother as white. That account concerns Guy’s family background; it should not be used to infer Duckett’s ethnicity or ancestry.
PEOPLE reports that the marriage ended in divorce in 2008. Taken together, the reported wedding and divorce years place the marriage at approximately a decade, although they do not establish its duration to an exact anniversary.
The supported answer to whether Guy ever married is therefore yes: she married Duckett in 1998. The historical divorce report establishes the ending of that marriage, rather than either person’s subsequent relationship status.
Their daughter, Imani
Terrence Duckett is Imani’s father. The HistoryMakers identifies her as the daughter of Duckett and Guy and places her birth in 1999, following their marriage the previous year.
PEOPLE’s family overview, published on 30 September 2026, gives Imani’s date of birth as 28 March 1999. On that reported birth date, she is 27 as of November 2026.
Her age also helps place older family coverage in context. She was born during the marriage and turned nine in the year PEOPLE reports that her parents divorced. References to her as a child in accounts of that period describe the circumstances then, not her age today.
The broad family chronology is straightforward: the wedding came in 1998, Imani’s birth followed in 1999, and the divorce occurred in 2008. These dates explain the connection between the three names without requiring a detailed account of private family arrangements.
That chronology also distinguishes two different relationships. Duckett is Guy’s former spouse, while he is Imani’s father. The ending of the marriage does not change the parentage recorded in both family accounts.
Names and spelling variants
Imani’s surname appears in two forms in the published accounts. The HistoryMakers uses Imani Guy Duckett, while PEOPLE uses Imani Guy Duckette.
Both identify the daughter of Jasmine Guy and Terrence Duckett. The additional “e” in PEOPLE’s spelling does not indicate a different daughter or a separate family connection.
The fuller paternal name in PEOPLE’s account, Terrence Mitchell Duckett, provides another identifier alongside the marriage and parenthood chronology. It is more specific than the two-word name commonly used in headlines and biographical searches.
Professional records require a different kind of care. Business listings and a sporting profile also appear under the name Terrence Duckett, but a shared name alone does not establish that they describe Guy’s former husband. Those records cannot automatically supply his employment history, birth date or education, and his current work and private circumstances should not be inferred from them.
The Bottom Line
The family account published by PEOPLE in September 2026 describes historical milestones, not a newly announced relationship development. It identifies Terrence Mitchell Duckett through his former marriage to Guy and his parentage of Imani, whose reported birth date makes her 27 as of November 2026.
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