Biography
Starletta DuPois (born July 18, 1941) is an American actress. She has appeared in a more than 90 movies and television show during her career. DuPois was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She graduated from University of Maryland Eastern Shore in 1968, and received M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. She made her Broadway debut appearing in 1974 short-lived play What the Wine-Sellers Buy. Later that year she had minor roles in films Death Wish a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Heart for the Holidays
2023
A high-powered Los Angeles businesswoman gets moved to a small town for an emergency heart transplant.
Soul Mates
2023
as Allison's Grandmother Marie
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two ...
Death of a Telemarketer
2021
as Mrs. Gordon
A smooth-talking telemarketer finds himself at the mercy of the man he tried to swindle.
True to the Game 3
2021
as Gah-Git
The trilogy picks right up where True 2 left us. Gena's awakes to find that her mysterious savior is Quadir. Before happily ever after, Gena has 72 ho...
Magic Max
2021
as Mrs. Chambers
After a tragic loss of both parents, 11-year-old Tim Hart is forced to live with his immensely immature Uncle Max, a second rate magician. and who, wi...
Orpheus Star
2020
as Pastor Ezrela Mae Privett
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to see Ezrela Mae Privett, the ailing grandmother who'd...
True to the Game
2017
as Gah-Git
Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young...
A Beautiful Soul
2012
as Deaconess
An R&B singer snagged by the trappings of superstardom loses his way and turns his back on his church and faith-filled beginnings. Tragedy strikes...
The Least Among You
2009
as Bessie Benton
Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrong...
First Sunday
2008
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...
Duck
2005
as Social Worker
An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.
The Notebook
2004
as Nurse Esther
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life ...
Friday After Next
2002
as Sister Sarah
Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guard...
Big Momma's House
2000
as Miss Patterson
When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate...
3 Strikes
2000
as Moms Douglas
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hook...
Alone
1997
as Lois
John Webb is recently widowed and living alone on the farm he and his brother used to share. He rarely sees his daughters, Jacqueline and Grace Ann, a...
The Maker
1997
as Technician
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Full Circle
1996
as Miriam Blake
A young woman, traumatized by rape at an early age, slowly learns to trust and love again as she struggles to avoid repeating her mother's mistakes.
The Road to Galveston
1996
as Sally
Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind w...
Waiting to Exhale
1995
as Savannah's Mother
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...
Wolf
1994
as Victim's Mother
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a ...
A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story
1994
as Ruth
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...
The Thing Called Love
1993
as Selma
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
Strapped
1993
as Diquan's Mother
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a de...
Let's Get Bizzee
1993
as Mrs Baker
High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.
South Central
1992
as Nurse Shelly
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the...
The Waterdance
1992
as Florence
Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist bik...
Ricochet
1991
as Mrs. Styles
An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
Runaway Father
1991
as Ruth
A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Frogs!
1991
as Principal Caverly
Gus, a former frog prince turned lounge singer, shows up on his friend's doorstep just when Arlo has little time to help him. But when Gus tangles wit...
Convicts
1991
as Martha Johnson
In 1902, 13-year-old Horace toils on a run-down plantation in rural Texas to buy a tombstone for the father he lost a year earlier. Soll, the crusty o...
A Raisin in the Sun
1989
as Ruth Younger
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Hollywood Shuffle
1987
as Bobby's Mother
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploit...
Odd Jobs
1986
as Dwight's Mom
Five college buddies start their own moving business only to find themselves tangling with sleazy competitors and the mob.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
as Sgt. Hunter
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller ...
Dark Exodus
1985
Subjected to Jim Crow laws and an overtly racist white population that still sees Blacks as property, an African American family in the South sends it...
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
1983
as Minna Newell
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
Games Mother Never Taught You
1982
as Ann
Hard-working career wife Laura becomes the first female executive in an all-male office and is dismayed to find she now has to learn the rules of the ...
The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six
1980
In 1963 a group of young Black boys living in Harlem were involved in an incident that earned them the nickname "The Harlem Six." Intent on protecting...
The Guest
1977
as Woman
A woman reveals her inner thoughts as she performs various chores around the bedroom.
The Gambler
1974
as Monique
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...
Death Wish
1974
as Lady at Police Station (uncredited)
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be ...
No More Goodbyes
N/A
as Nana
After his foster mother dies, sixteen-year-old Mark goes on the run with his foster brother Tristan, a young boy with Autism and PTSD in order for the...