Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine

1949-08-21 Houston, Texas, USA 104 Credits

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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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Finding Faith

Finding Faith

2025

10.0
Acting

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

Lost & Found in Cleveland

Lost & Found in Cleveland

2024

as Joy Morris

Acting

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

Tempted by Love

2024

as Miss Mimi

9.0
Acting

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

Bull Street

2024

as Mrs. Big-Gal

Acting

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

A Snowy Day in Oakland

2023

as Jeanette

6.6
Acting

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

All I Didn't Want for Christmas

2022

as Lorraine

7.1
Acting

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

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

2022

as Irene (voice)

6.8
Acting

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

Mack & Rita

2022

as Sharon

5.5
Acting

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!

Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!

2022

as Hallie (voice)

4.0
Acting

Doc McStuffins gets help from her friends and fans to make this her best birthday ever!

Christmas Déjà Vu

Christmas Déjà Vu

2021

as Crystal

5.0
Acting

A Christmas angel grants a wish to a Christmas hater, to have her life as a singer.

Christmas in Harmony

Christmas in Harmony

2021

as Mama

5.0
Acting

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

The Starling

2021

as Velma

6.9
Acting

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

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Acting

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

Queen Bees

2021

as Sally

5.9
Acting

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

Always and Forever

2020

as Elda

5.7
Acting

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

Spell

2020

as Eloise

6.5
Acting

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

A Family Reunion Christmas

2019

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

5.9
Acting

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

A Sweet Christmas Romance

2019

as Loretta

6.9
Acting

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

Postmarked

2019

as Hattie

9.0
Acting

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

The Trap

2019

as Mama Jay

4.9
Acting

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

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

2019

as Self

7.2
Acting

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

The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special

2018

as Hallie (voice)

5.0
Acting

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

Jingle Belle

2018

as Emory Simons

5.9
Acting

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

Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend

2018

as Self

7.0
Acting

This two and a half hour documentary takes a look at the making of the 1998 horror film Urban Legend.

Behind the Movement

Behind the Movement

2018

as Jo Ann Robinson

Acting

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

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

2018

as Ms. Thomson

6.3
Acting

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

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

10.0
Acting

A look at the past, present and future of the Great White Way.

Naked

Naked

2017

as Carol

5.8
Acting

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

Chapter & Verse

2017

as Miss Maddy

7.3
Acting

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

No Regrets

2016

as Ms. Carey

7.1
Acting

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

3.5
Acting

Brett Gelman invites four African-American panelists to discuss racism in the United States.

Grandma's House

Grandma's House

2016

4.5
Acting

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

Caged No More

2016

as Aggie

4.7
Acting

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

Norm of the North

2016

as Tamecia (voice)

4.6
Acting

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

The Sound and the Fury

2015

as Dilsey

5.0
Acting

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

For the Love of Ruth

2015

as Naomi

5.2
Acting

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

Back to School Mom

2015

as Meghan Graham

5.3
Acting

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

Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie

2015

as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)

5.5
Acting

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

You're Not You

2014

as Marilyn

7.4
Acting

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

Welcome to Me

2014

as Barb Vaughn

5.8
Acting

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

Comeback Dad

2014

as Malinda

6.9
Acting

A man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter.

Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way

Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way

2014

as Hallie

5.0
Acting

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

2.0
Acting

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

Saving Westbrook High

2013

as Doris

6.0
Acting

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

Khumba

2013

as Mama V (voice)

6.0
Acting

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

In the Hive

2012

as Mrs. Inez

5.2
Acting

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

Politics of Love

2011

as Shirlee Gupta

3.3
Acting

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

Jumping the Broom

Jumping the Broom

2011

as Mrs. Taylor

5.9
Acting

Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

Madea's Big Happy Family

Madea's Big Happy Family

2011

as Shirley

6.7
Acting

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

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

2011

as Delta (voice)

5.9
Acting

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

For Colored Girls

2010

as Juanita / Green

6.7
Acting

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

Lottery Ticket

2010

as Grandma

5.6
Acting

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

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

as Miss Roberts

6.0
Acting

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

Death at a Funeral

2010

as Cynthia

5.9
Acting

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

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

2009

as Self

Acting

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

Spring Breakdown

2009

as Dr. Marguerite

5.4
Acting

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

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

2008

as Delta (voice)

5.4
Acting

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

First Sunday

2008

as Sister Doris

5.7
Acting

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

This Christmas

2007

as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield

6.5
Acting

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

Cougar Club

2007

as Dolly

3.8
Acting

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

Dreamgirls

2006

as Jazz Singer

6.7
Acting

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

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006

as Addie Collins

6.5
Acting

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

Dirty Laundry

2006

as Evelyn

6.2
Acting

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

Crash

2005

as Shaniqua Johnson

7.2
Acting

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

King's Ransom

2005

as Miss Gladys

4.7
Acting

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

Woman Thou Art Loosed

2004

as Cassey Jordan

5.5
Acting

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

Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs

2002

10.0
Acting

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

I Am Sam

2001

as Margaret Calgrove

7.6
Acting

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

Kingdom Come

2001

as Marguerite Slocumb

6.6
Acting

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

What Women Want

2000

as Flo

6.5
Acting

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

Urban Legends: Final Cut

2000

as Reese

4.9
Acting

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

Best Actress

2000

as Connie Travers

1.4
Acting

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

Freedom Song

2000

as Evelyn Walker

5.5
Acting

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

Punks

2000

as Health Counselor

5.0
Acting

The life and times of a group of twentysomething black gay men living in West Hollywood.

Love Kills

Love Kills

1999

as Sylvia Finkelstein

2.0
Acting

A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999

as Ruby Dandridge

6.5
Acting

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!

Jackie's Back!

1999

as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)

6.5
Acting

A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback concert.

The Breaks

The Breaks

1999

as Floria

6.2
Acting

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

Funny Valentines

1999

as Dearie B.

7.2
Acting

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

Down in the Delta

1998

as Zenia

6.4
Acting

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

Urban Legend

1998

as Reese Wilson

5.7
Acting

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

Don King: Only in America

1997

as Connie Harper

6.5
Acting

A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.

Lover Girl

Lover Girl

1997

as Leticia / 'Coco'

5.3
Acting

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

Clover

1997

as Everleen

4.5
Acting

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

Hoodlum

1997

as Pigfoot Mary

6.4
Acting

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

The Price of Kissing

1997

as Jackee

3.0
Acting

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

The Preacher's Wife

1996

as Beverly

5.8
Acting

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

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996

as Miss Mary

7.1
Acting

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

Waiting to Exhale

1995

as Gloria

6.3
Acting

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

Amos & Andrew

1993

as Ula

5.4
Acting

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

The American Clock

1993

6.5
Acting

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

Class Act

1992

as Blade's Mom

6.1
Acting

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!

Livin' Large!

1991

as Nadine Biggs

6.0
Acting

A young black reporter begins to lose his identity.

Caged Fear

Caged Fear

1991

as Judy

3.8
Acting

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

The Colored Museum

1991

as Janine

Acting

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

Stanley & Iris

1990

as Bertha

6.5
Acting

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

Parent Trap III

1989

as Thelma

5.9
Acting

When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan.

Sticky Fingers

Sticky Fingers

1988

as Diane

5.7
Acting

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

Little Nikita

1988

as Verna McLaughlin

6.0
Acting

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

A Different World

1987

as Stevie Rallen

10.0
Acting

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

Anna to the Infinite Power

1983

as Mrs. Benson

5.2
Acting

Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, sev...

Will

Will

1981

as Jean

Acting

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

Break the Cycle

N/A

Acting

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

Acting

Announced Sequel to 2010's Lottery Ticket