Erika Alexander

Erika Alexander

1969-11-19 Winslow, Arizona, USA 30 Credits

Biography

Erika Rose Alexander (born November 19, 1969) is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist best known for her roles as Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1990–1992), and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single (1993–1998). She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include The Long Walk Home (1990), 30 Years to Life (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), Get Out (20...

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American Fiction

American Fiction

2023

as Coraline

7.3
Acting

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypoc...

Earth Mama

Earth Mama

2023

as Miss Carmen

6.1
Acting

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family.

Wildflower

Wildflower

2023

as Mary

7.5
Acting

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite ...

The Big Payback

2022

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

Funded by a tax on cannabis, Evanston, IL, earmarked $10 million to compensate descendants of enslaved Africans for 400 years of unpaid labor. Alderwo...

American Refugee

American Refugee

2021

as Helen Taylor

5.5
Acting

A story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker while the American economy is in collapse and the nation under martial law. There they find...

John Lewis: Good Trouble

John Lewis: Good Trouble

2020

Producer

4.6
Producing

The timely biopic focuses on John Lewis’ longstanding prominence as a civil rights champion and his continuing crusade for racial and social equality....

I See You

I See You

2019

as Lieutenant Davis

7.0
Acting

When a 10-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, ...

Brave New Jersey

Brave New Jersey

2017

as Helen Holbrook

5.1
Acting

A comedy that tells the story of a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles' famed 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led million...

Get Out

Get Out

2017

as Detective Latoya

7.6
Acting

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as ner...

Secrets of the Magic City

Secrets of the Magic City

2015

as Ms. Fletcher

5.5
Acting

The Magic City, by Director R. Malcolm Jones, is a motion picture based on hope and resilience played out in a coming of age story laced with sometime...

Elsa & Fred

Elsa & Fred

2014

as Laverne

6.0
Acting

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa...

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

2014

Acting

The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the death of Crispus Attucks.

La Mission

La Mission

2009

as Lena

5.8
Acting

Growing up in the Mission district of San Francisco, Che Rivera has always had to be tough to survive. He's a powerful man respected throughout the Mi...

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

2006

as Shanti

6.9
Acting

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the sce...

Tricks

2004

as Laurel

Acting

Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to understand them as women. The town is Chicago and the gir...

Love Liza

Love Liza

2002

as Brenda

6.4
Acting

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to huffing gasoline fumes and remote control gaming while avoid...

Full Frontal

Full Frontal

2002

as Lucy

4.6
Acting

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.

The Cosby Show: A Look Back

The Cosby Show: A Look Back

2002

as Pam Tucker (archive footage)

7.4
Acting

A retrospective of the phenomenally popular 1984-1992 situation comedy, "The Cosby Show," complete with memorable clips, bloopers and comments from se...

30 Years to Life

30 Years to Life

2001

6.0
Acting

First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6 lifetime friends who are all hitting the big `3-0' together...

Knitwits Revisited

Knitwits Revisited

1999

as Amina

Acting

KnitWits Revisited brings us back to the KnitWits' knitting store.

54

54

1998

as Ciel

5.9
Acting

Shane O'Shea, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding another, more exciting life at Studio 54. When Steve Rubell, the mas...

Override

Override

1994

as Shawana

Acting

Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny Glover and starred Lou Diamond Phillips and Emily Lloyd....

Fathers & Sons

Fathers & Sons

1992

as Venell

5.1
Acting

A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy ...

He Said, She Said

He Said, She Said

1991

as Rita, Al's Daugther

5.9
Acting

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the ...

The Long Walk Home

The Long Walk Home

1990

as Selma Cotter

7.6
Acting

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luth...

The Last Best Year

The Last Best Year

1990

as Amy

7.0
Acting

Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she consults a doctor who finds that she is very ill and ...

Common Ground

Common Ground

1990

as Cassandra Twymon

10.0
Acting

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus...

The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata

1990

as Madri / Hidimbi

6.9
Acting

One of the great masterpieces of world literature comes to vivid life in an elaborate production from acclaimed theater and film innovator Peter Brook...

My Little Girl

My Little Girl

1986

as Joan

4.3
Acting

A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets wrapped up in the plights of several of the girls, and t...

Is God Is

N/A

Acting

Twin sisters with disfiguring burn scars are ordered by their bedridden mother to kill their abusive father who caused their scars. They must decide w...