Biography
Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama The Shield playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in...
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Will I See You Again?
2024
Two former friends find themselves summoned to their late friend's estate hearing. To claim their inheritance, they must first confront their past rel...

Me Time
2022
as Connie
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventur...

The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
2021
as Mayor Coont
A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-thro...

Vacation Friends
2021
as Nancy
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met...

Chasing the Blues
2018
as Mrs. Walker
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands t...

Single AF
2018
as Jane
A plethora of single people connected through a dating app meet their judgement day based on their serendipitous sins.
A Kindred Soul
2017
as Claudia
The impacts of having loved never leave you. A mother struggles with the loss of her son on Thanksgiving.
Jalen Vs. Everybody
2017
as Mamma

Gladys Brown
2017
as Gladys Brown
After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.

A Madea Christmas
2013
as Eileen
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the count...

C'mon Man
2012
as Mrs. Woods
Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.

Wigger
2010
"Wigger" is a spellbinding urban drama, which chronicles the life of a young, White, male (Brandon) who totally emulates and immerses himself in Afric...

Our Family Wedding
2010
as Diane Boyd
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.

Directors on Directing
2009
as Self
A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.

I Tried
2007
as Milly
What if Bone Thugs N harmony never got to audition for Eazy E. What would their outcome have been. This gritty, real tale tells the story of Krayzie, ...

Gridiron Gang
2006
as Sharon Weathers
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Broken Bridges
2006
as Loretta
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the f...

Ganked
2005
as Mrs. Barry
Aspiring songwriter Ricky Barry (Kel Mitchell) finally gets the break he's been waiting for when he enters a song in a contest and wins. But instead o...

My Big Phat Hip Hop Family
2005
as Mamma Pearl
Audrey is a typical music student at a large Midwestern college, interested in pursuing a career in classical music. Her apparent "normalcy," however,...

Guarding Eddy
2004
as Carol
A developmentally handicapped young man comes to L.A. to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball for the Clippers.
Justice
2004
as Chief Public Defender Poole
Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica ...

Friday After Next
2002
as Mrs. Jones
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...

Minority Report
2002
as Casey
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

How High
2001
as Mamma King
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance ...

Along Came a Spider
2001
as Vickie
After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the pea...

Jacked Up
2001
as Thelma Barnes
A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.

Masquerade
2000
as Mrs. Scott
After moving to LA, a young woman starts a romance with a man she met on the internet. Trouble brews when she discovers that a friend also is attracte...

Lockdown
2000
as Saunders
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and...

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2000
as Denise's Mother
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...

Kiss the Girls
1997
as Vicki Cross (uncredited)
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," ...

One Fine Day
1996
as Evelyn
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...

Set It Off
1996
as Ms. Wells
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four wome...

Dear God
1996
as Lucille Barnett
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter offi...

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1996
as Miss Annie
A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

Widow's Kiss
1996
as Lavanda Harrison
Haunted by his mother's recent death, a young man becomes suspicious of his wealthy father's sexy, new bride. When his father dies mysteriously, the b...

Friday
1995
as Mrs. Jones
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

Baby Brokers
1994
as Randi
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.

Mr. Jones
1993
as Judge Harris
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his t...

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1992
as Veronica Perry
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...

A Killer Among Us
1990
as Barbara Evans
Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, bu...

Presumed Innocent
1990
as Eugenia
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...
Taken Away
1989
as Mrs. Pierson
A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone instead of going to a babysitter. The mother finall...
Who Gets the Friends?
1988
Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the fr...

Street Smart
1987
as Harriet
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

C.A.T. Squad
1986
as Mrs. Raines
When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad, ...

Heartburn
1986
as Della
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
A Case of Deadly Force
1986
as Virginia Cates
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car us...

Stone Pillow
1985
as Collins
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to o...

St. Elmo's Fire
1985
as Naomi
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to ...

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
1985
as Hannah
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners f...

Summer Switch
1984
as Stepahnie Marshak
Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.

A Doctor's Story
1984
as Leigh Williams
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Crackers
1984
as Slam Dunk
In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while nav...

Class
1983
as Maggie
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the ...

Love Child
1982
as Mara
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on accou...

Benny's Place
1982
as Charmaine
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.

Muggable Mary: Street Cop
1982
as Kathy Thomas
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Bill
1981
as Marge Keating
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution...

Starstruck
1981
as Jessica
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.

The Fan
1981
as Emily Stolz
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly vio...

Times Square
1980
as Rosie Washington
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own advent...

Hollow Image
1979
as Monica
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old bo...

An Almost Perfect Affair
1979
as Amy Zon
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...
At Face Value
N/A
as Mosetta
Set during the day of the infamous O. J. Simpson white Bronco low-speed chase, At Face Value focuses upon Black/Asian race relations within the confin...

Last Friday
N/A
as Betty Jones
The fourth and final installment in the 'Friday' franchise.