Biography
Akosua Busia was born on December 30, 1966 in Accra, Ghana. She is an actress and director, known for The Color Purple (1985), Tears of the Sun (2003) and Low Blow (1986). She was previously married to John Singleton.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Ascension Day
2007
Director
A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.
Tears of the Sun
2003
as Patience
Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between fo...
Beloved
1998
Screenplay
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Belov...
Ill Gotten Gains
1997
as Fey
WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but...
Mad City
1997
as Diane
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
Rosewood
1997
as Jewel
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
New Jack City
1991
as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infi...
Brother Future
1991
as Caroline
A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.
The George McKenna Story
1988
as Cynthia Byers
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore ed...
The Seventh Sign
1988
as Penny Washburn
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse ...
Saxo
1988
as Puppet
A record company manager is on the verge of bankruptcy. He meets two musicians, a saxophonist (Joe) and his sister (Puppet), a singer and guitarist, w...
A Special Friendship
1987
as Mary Bowser
During the American Civil War, two women, a wealthy white woman and a freed black slave, join forces to fight for freedom and the abolition of slavery...
Native Son
1986
as Bessie
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teen...
Low Blow
1986
as Karma
Joe Wong is a private investigator who goes in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam ...
Crossroads
1986
as Woman at Boardinghouse
A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
The Color Purple
1985
as Nettie
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After...
Badge of the Assassin
1985
as Ruth
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police dete...
Louisiana
1984
as Ivy
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have b...
The Final Terror
1983
as Vanessa
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf...
Ashanti
1979
as The Senoufo Girl
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and t...