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Complete Filmography
Black Adam
2022
as Wizard #7
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his ear...
Doretha's Blues
2021
as Doretha
Doretha goes out for her evening drink at her local watering hole when a news story dredges up old memories.
First Christmas
2020
as Memaw
Given up for adoption and placed in foster care at a young age, writer Halle Downing receives the blessing of a lifetime when she is invited to spend ...
Just Mercy
2019
as Mrs. Coleman (uncredited)
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — includin...
The Golden Voices
2018
as Dean Vickie Wilson
"Golden Voices Competition" is to be held this year at Terrell Christian College (TCC), but there's one problem TCC does not have a choir. Georgia Mae...
Come Sunday
2018
as Lillie Ruth Pearson
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Same Kind of Different as Me
2017
as Big Mama
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams wi...
Girls Trip
2017
as Aunt Marian
Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterh...
The Hollars
2016
as Latisha
Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, e...
American Hero
2015
as Gladis
Melvin, a reluctant hero who is far from super, has been suppressing his telekinetic powers for years with booze, drugs, and women. In the process, he...
The Wronged Man
2010
as Ms. Newton
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and...
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007
as Elderly Woman
West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally ...
Constellation
2007
as Reverand
Constellation chronicles the lives and loves of an African-American family in the deep South as they are forced to come to terms with a tumultuous pas...
Alabama Love Story
2003
A broken down ex-rodeo cowboy, Roper, is down on his luck. He has three weeks to pay three months rent when he reads about the couple of the year in t...
The Rosa Parks Story
2002
as Johnnie Carr
A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Hood Rat
2001
as Vetta Taylor
Think of it as Willard in the hood, the debut feature from director Leslie Small finds a Isaiah Washington playing a kindly man who turns maniacal wit...
Confession of a Florist
1999
as Connie
She loves him. She loves him not.
My Stepson, My Lover
1997
as Delia Gray
A kind nurse finds herself embroiled in a tense and potentially deadly family affair when she falls for the son of her ruthless new husband.
A Time to Kill
1996
as Gwen Hailey
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
The Sister-in-Law
1995
as Libby
A man finally meets his daughter-in-law for the first time when his son tragically dies. He and the rest of the family like her, but she has a deadly ...
Gramps
1995
as Rae Ellen
After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, ...
One Christmas
1994
as Evangeline
Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Leave of Absence
1994
as Cora Winsor
A man asks his wife for a 'leave of absence' in order to care for his mistress who is dying of cancer.
A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
1994
as Henrietta
The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors i...
Body Snatchers
1993
as Teacher
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his fam...
Mississippi Burning
1988
as Mrs. Walker
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...
Courtship
1987
as Aunt Charity
In 1915, Elizabeth has fallen in love with Horace Robedaux, a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her ...
Mistress of Paradise
1981
as Sister Sarah
In the 19th century, a wealthy Northern woman marries a Louisiana plantation owner and then becomes suspicious about his first wife's death.
Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1981
as Mama Paige
The story of Leroy "Satchel" Paige, the legendary pitcher, from his barnstorming days in the 1920s, hoping to break into organized "negro" baseball, t...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979
as Lillie
Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she ...
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
1978
as Mrs. Avery
1978 movie starring Morgan Freeman. This movie is the shortened version that was released from the original 3 part mini series back in 1978.
Minstrel Man
1977
as Carla
Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succ...