Biography
Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949) is an American actress, singer and voice actor. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. Description ...
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Complete Filmography

Finding Faith
2025
Faith Mitchell, a loving wife and mother, struggles to keep her family together amidst financial hardships and personal loss.

Lost & Found in Cleveland
2024
as Joy Morris
A new American fable about the post-Industrial American Dream in the Industrial Midwest – a slice-of-life depiction over a 24-hour period that follows...

Tempted by Love
2024
as Miss Mimi
Ava, a renowned chef from Europe, rushes to South Carolina when her aunt suffers a fall. Luke, her younger driver, sparks an unexpected connection as ...

Bull Street
2024
as Mrs. Big-Gal
A woman faces the battle of her life when her estranged father's family tries to evict her and her grandmother from the only home she has ever known.

A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
as Jeanette
A Snowy Day in Oakland - A magical urban tale about a beautiful psychologist from San Francisco who decides to end a stalled romance with her longtime...

All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2022
as Lorraine
Emily Harris is not doing great. In a desperate attempt to improve her life and make this Christmas not totally suck, Emily writes a letter to Santa. ...

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
as Irene (voice)
A new school year, his brother Rodrick teases him over and over and over and over again. Will Greg manage to get along with him? Or will a secret ruin...

Mack & Rita
2022
as Sharon
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.

Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!
2022
as Hallie (voice)
Doc McStuffins gets help from her friends and fans to make this her best birthday ever!

Christmas Déjà Vu
2021
as Crystal
A Christmas angel grants a wish to a Christmas hater, to have her life as a singer.

Christmas in Harmony
2021
as Mama
Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of lo...

The Starling
2021
as Velma
A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward...

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...

Queen Bees
2021
as Sally
Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirtatiou...

Always and Forever
2020
as Elda
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can'...

Spell
2020
as Eloise
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the...

A Family Reunion Christmas
2019
as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.

A Sweet Christmas Romance
2019
as Loretta
When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery is retiring and has started a c...

Postmarked
2019
as Hattie
One summer afternoon, a ten-year-old boy finds a forgotten trove of postcards. To solve their mystery, he journeys to their postmarked city in search ...

The Trap
2019
as Mama Jay
A man returns home to Atlanta to help and turn around his family's struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe.

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
as Self
Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history...

The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
2018
as Hallie (voice)
When there are no presents under the tree, Doc suspects there's something wrong at the North Pole and time travels to figure out what went wrong and s...

Jingle Belle
2018
as Emory Simons
Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant w...

Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2018
as Self
This two and a half hour documentary takes a look at the making of the 1998 horror film Urban Legend.

Behind the Movement
2018
as Jo Ann Robinson
Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boy...

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
as Ms. Thomson
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win ov...

Broadway: The Next Generation
2017
as Self
A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

Naked
2017
as Carol
Following a wild night out with his best man, Rob Anderson wakes up to find himself naked in an elevator on the morning of his wedding day and is forc...

Chapter & Verse
2017
as Miss Maddy
Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to u...

No Regrets
2016
as Ms. Carey
This film is a romantic comedy about a stewardess (Calhoun), who after 12 years of dating (Joseph) as college sweethearts (along with several marriage...
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
2016
as Herself
Brett Gelman invites four African-American panelists to discuss racism in the United States.

Grandma's House
2016
Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski's Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. "Grandma's House" gives a compelling insight into how the Execut...

Caged No More
2016
as Aggie
Aggie, A 67 year-old Black Cajun, has just stepped into her worst nightmare. Her two granddaughters have disappeared, and the only clue she possesses ...

Norm of the North
2016
as Tamecia (voice)
Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in N...

The Sound and the Fury
2015
as Dilsey
A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.

For the Love of Ruth
2015
as Naomi
Ruth Summerling has spent the majority of her life struggling to find her way and comes to some understanding of where exactly it is she belongs.

Back to School Mom
2015
as Meghan Graham
Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish ...

Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
2015
as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
No one gives better cuddles than Doc's warm and fuzzy best friend! She's a princess and a ballerina, and she's always there for toys that need an extr...

You're Not You
2014
as Marilyn
A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

Welcome to Me
2014
as Barb Vaughn
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta...

Comeback Dad
2014
as Malinda
A man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
2014
as Hallie
When your favorite toys need fixing, count on the best toy fixerupper in town - Doc McStuffins - to lend a hand and a hug! Join Doc, Lambie, Stuffy an...
A Very Larry Christmas
2013
as Mrs. Claus
Larry is a good natured guy with a spotty work history. Santa picks Larry to fill in when he breaks his leg. Larry`s old boss and Santa`s PR assistant...

Saving Westbrook High
2013
as Doris
A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school i...

Khumba
2013
as Mama V (voice)
A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wi...

In the Hive
2012
as Mrs. Inez
Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him, and he just might get his wish when he's thrus...

Politics of Love
2011
as Shirlee Gupta
Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Demo...

Jumping the Broom
2011
as Mrs. Taylor
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
as Shirley
When Shirley, Madea's niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley'...

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
as Delta (voice)
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challen...

For Colored Girls
2010
as Juanita / Green
About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw...

Lottery Ticket
2010
as Grandma
Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a wi...

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
as Miss Roberts
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta...

Death at a Funeral
2010
as Cynthia
Aaron's father's funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally dru...

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
as Self
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the genre is resilient. A handful of masterpieces alo...

Spring Breakdown
2009
as Dr. Marguerite
Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
as Delta (voice)
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri...

First Sunday
2008
as Sister Doris
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they...

This Christmas
2007
as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and the...

Cougar Club
2007
as Dolly
When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them. Spence has a girlfriend f...

Dreamgirls
2006
as Jazz Singer
A trio of female soul singers cross over to the pop charts in the early 1960s, facing their own personal struggles along the way.

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006
as Addie Collins
A single mother’s American Idol audition helps her rise above a history of poverty, sexual abuse, and illiteracy to achieve national prominence.

Dirty Laundry
2006
as Evelyn
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spiri...

Crash
2005
as Shaniqua Johnson
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a...

King's Ransom
2005
as Miss Gladys
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other p...

Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004
as Cassey Jordan
An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.

Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002
Book of Love delivers humor along with the mysteries of unrequited love and relationships gone bad. The film's story line focuses on three men living,...

I Am Sam
2001
as Margaret Calgrove
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. ...

Kingdom Come
2001
as Marguerite Slocumb
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a ...

What Women Want
2000
as Flo
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking...

Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
as Reese
The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, some...

Best Actress
2000
as Connie Travers
A Hollywood writer becomes embroiled while investigating into the lives of five fictitious actresses all nominated for the Academy Award for best actr...

Freedom Song
2000
as Evelyn Walker
Freedom Song is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle ...

Punks
2000
as Health Counselor
The life and times of a group of twentysomething black gay men living in West Hollywood.

Love Kills
1999
as Sylvia Finkelstein
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
as Ruby Dandridge
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Ye...

Jackie's Back!
1999
as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

The Breaks
1999
as Floria
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and ...

Funny Valentines
1999
as Dearie B.
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin.

Down in the Delta
1998
as Zenia
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live ...

Urban Legend
1998
as Reese Wilson
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.

Don King: Only in America
1997
as Connie Harper
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Lover Girl
1997
as Leticia / 'Coco'
Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci tak...

Clover
1997
as Everleen
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, C...

Hoodlum
1997
as Pigfoot Mary
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harle...

The Price of Kissing
1997
as Jackee
Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memories of her mother to her own experiences as a youn...

The Preacher's Wife
1996
as Beverly
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei...

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
as Miss Mary
A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison...

Waiting to Exhale
1995
as Gloria
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar l...

Amos & Andrew
1993
as Ula
When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After ...

The American Clock
1993
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra...

Class Act
1992
as Blade's Mom
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the ot...

Livin' Large!
1991
as Nadine Biggs
A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.

Caged Fear
1991
as Judy
After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She's sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed fema...

The Colored Museum
1991
as Janine
Ten satirical sketches written by George C. Wolfe use drama, comedy and music to examine black stereotypes and express the need for African-Americans ...

Stanley & Iris
1990
as Bertha
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili...

Parent Trap III
1989
as Thelma
When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.

Sticky Fingers
1988
as Diane
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend, Diane, to baby-sit a bag containing nearly...

Little Nikita
1988
as Verna McLaughlin
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.

A Different World
1987
as Stevie Rallen
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987, t...

Anna to the Infinite Power
1983
as Mrs. Benson
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, sev...

Will
1981
as Jean
A girls’ basketball coach battles a heroin addiction while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid adopted by Will and his wife.

Break the Cycle
N/A
Two Memphis brothers' childhood is impacted by tragedy. They are raised by their grandmother but follow different paths into adulthood.
Lottery Ticket 2
N/A
as Grandma
Announced Sequel to 2010's Lottery Ticket