Anna Maria Horsford

Anna Maria Horsford

1947-03-06 New York City, New York, USA 65 Credits

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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?

Will I See You Again?

2024

Acting

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

Me Time

2022

as Connie

5.9
Acting

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

The Bitch Who Stole Christmas

2021

as Mayor Coont

4.7
Acting

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

Vacation Friends

2021

as Nancy

7.0
Acting

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

Chasing the Blues

2018

as Mrs. Walker

5.5
Acting

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

Single AF

2018

as Jane

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting
Gladys Brown

Gladys Brown

2017

as Gladys Brown

Acting

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

A Madea Christmas

A Madea Christmas

2013

as Eileen

6.4
Acting

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

C'mon Man

2012

as Mrs. Woods

7.0
Acting

Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.

Wigger

Wigger

2010

Acting

"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

Our Family Wedding

2010

as Diane Boyd

5.6
Acting

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

Directors on Directing

2009

as Self

Acting

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

I Tried

2007

as Milly

7.4
Acting

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

Gridiron Gang

2006

as Sharon Weathers

7.1
Acting

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Broken Bridges

Broken Bridges

2006

as Loretta

7.4
Acting

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

Ganked

2005

as Mrs. Barry

4.0
Acting

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

My Big Phat Hip Hop Family

2005

as Mamma Pearl

1.0
Acting

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

Guarding Eddy

2004

as Carol

4.5
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Friday After Next

2002

as Mrs. Jones

6.3
Acting

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

Minority Report

2002

as Casey

7.3
Acting

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

How High

2001

as Mamma King

6.3
Acting

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

Along Came a Spider

2001

as Vickie

6.3
Acting

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

Jacked Up

2001

as Thelma Barnes

7.2
Acting

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

Masquerade

2000

as Mrs. Scott

10.0
Acting

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

Lockdown

2000

as Saunders

5.8
Acting

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

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

2000

as Denise's Mother

5.0
Acting

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

Kiss the Girls

1997

as Vicki Cross (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

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

One Fine Day

1996

as Evelyn

6.4
Acting

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

Set It Off

1996

as Ms. Wells

7.2
Acting

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

Dear God

1996

as Lucille Barnett

5.5
Acting

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

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

1996

as Miss Annie

4.2
Acting

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

Widow's Kiss

1996

as Lavanda Harrison

4.4
Acting

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

Friday

1995

as Mrs. Jones

7.1
Acting

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

Baby Brokers

1994

as Randi

6.2
Acting

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

Mr. Jones

1993

as Judge Harris

5.8
Acting

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

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

1992

as Veronica Perry

5.6
Acting

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

A Killer Among Us

1990

as Barbara Evans

3.0
Acting

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

Presumed Innocent

1990

as Eugenia

6.8
Acting

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

Acting

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

4.0
Acting

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

Street Smart

1987

as Harriet

6.0
Acting

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

C.A.T. Squad

C.A.T. Squad

1986

as Mrs. Raines

3.7
Acting

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

Heartburn

1986

as Della

6.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Stone Pillow

1985

as Collins

6.7
Acting

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

St. Elmo's Fire

1985

as Naomi

6.1
Acting

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

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985

as Hannah

Acting

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

Summer Switch

1984

as Stepahnie Marshak

Acting

Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.

A Doctor's Story

A Doctor's Story

1984

as Leigh Williams

5.0
Acting

A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Crackers

Crackers

1984

as Slam Dunk

4.7
Acting

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

Class

1983

as Maggie

6.0
Acting

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

Love Child

1982

as Mara

5.8
Acting

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

Benny's Place

1982

as Charmaine

10.0
Acting

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

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

1982

as Kathy Thomas

Acting

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

Bill

Bill

1981

as Marge Keating

6.6
Acting

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

Starstruck

1981

as Jessica

Acting

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

The Fan

The Fan

1981

as Emily Stolz

5.8
Acting

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

Times Square

1980

as Rosie Washington

6.6
Acting

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

Hollow Image

1979

as Monica

3.5
Acting

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

An Almost Perfect Affair

1979

as Amy Zon

4.5
Acting

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

Acting

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

Last Friday

N/A

as Betty Jones

Acting

The fourth and final installment in the 'Friday' franchise.