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Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine

ActingBorn August 21, 1949 (age 76)Houston, Texas, USA

Biography

Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949) is an American actress, singer and voice actor. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Loretta Devine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2026
M.I.A.

as Aunt Judith

TV
2025Movie
2025Movie
2025Movie
2025Movie
2024
Holidazed

as Linda Lewin

TV
2024
Doctor Odyssey

as Jill Manafort

TV
2024
Bull Street

as Mrs. Big-Gal

Movie
2023
Lucille

as Lucille

Movie
2023
Young Love

as Gigi Young (voice)

TV
2023Movie
2022Movie
2022TV
2022
Mack & Rita

as Sharon

Movie
2022Movie
2021Movie
2021Movie
2021
The Starling

as Velma

Movie
2021
Queen Bees

as Sally

Movie
2020Movie
2020
Spell

as Eloise

Movie
2020
Connecting...

as Dayleen

TV
2020
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

TV
2020
P-Valley

as Ernestine

TV
2020
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race

as Fabulosity - Contestant

TV
2019
A Family Reunion Christmas

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

Movie
2019Movie
2019
Postmarked

as Hattie

Movie
2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

TV
2019TV
2019TV
2019
The Trap

as Mama Jay

Movie
2018Movie
2018
Jingle Belle

as Emory Simons

Movie
2018
Behind the Movement

as Jo Ann Robinson

Movie
2018Movie
2018
Summer Camp Island

as Sea Cow (voice)

TV
2017
Naked

as Carol

Movie
2017
Dear White People

as Sorbet (voice)

TV
2017
Chapter & Verse

as Miss Maddy

Movie
2016
No Regrets

as Ms. Carey

Movie
2016Movie
2016
Norm of the North

as Tamecia (voice)

Movie
2015Movie
2015
The Carmichael Show

as Cynthia Carmichael

TV
2015Movie
2015
Welcome to Me

as Barb Vaughn

Movie
2015
Back to School Mom

as Meghan Graham

Movie
2015
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie

as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)

Movie
2014Movie
2014
You're Not You

as Marilyn

Movie
2014
black-ish

as Lynette

TV
2014
Comeback Dad

as Malinda

Movie
2014
Sirens

as Hank's Mother

TV
2013Movie
2013
The Doc Files

as Hallie (voice)

TV
2013
Khumba

as Mama V (voice)

Movie
2012
In the Hive

as Mrs. Inez

Movie
2012
The Soul Man

as Della Ballentine

TV
2012
The Client List

as Georgia Cummings

TV
2012
Doc McStuffins

as Nurse Hallie (voice)

TV
2012
Doc McStuffins

as Hattie (voice)

TV
2011
Politics of Love

as Shirlee Gupta

Movie
2011
State of Georgia

as Honey Dupree

TV
2011
Jumping the Broom

as Mrs. Taylor

Movie
2011Movie
2011Movie
2010
Shake It Up

as Marsha Sanders

TV
2010
For Colored Girls

as Juanita / Green

Movie
2010
Lottery Ticket

as Grandma

Movie
2010Movie
2010Movie
2009
Spring Breakdown

as Dr. Marguerite

Movie
2009
Glee

as Sister Mary Constance

TV
2009
Party Down

as Diane Ellison

TV
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

TV
2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua

as Delta (voice)

Movie
2008
Eli Stone

as Patti Dellacroix

TV
2008
First Sunday

as Sister Doris

Movie
2007
This Christmas

as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield

Movie
2007
Cougar Club

as Dolly

Movie
2006
Dreamgirls

as Jazz Singer

Movie
2006
Dirty Laundry

as Evelyn

Movie
2006
Psych

as Melba Birdson

TV
2005TV
2005
Supernatural

as Missouri Moseley

TV
2005
Crash

as Shaniqua Johnson

Movie
2005
King's Ransom

as Miss Gladys

Movie
2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Adele Webber

TV
2004
Boston Legal

as Judge Victoria Thomson

TV
2004
Boston Legal

as Annabelle Carruthers

TV
2004
Woman Thou Art Loosed

as Cassey Jordan

Movie
2003
Cold Case

as Chandra Patterson (2009)

TV
2003
Wild Card

as M. Pearl McGuire

TV
2002
Half & Half

as Erika Duke

TV
2001
I Am Sam

as Margaret Calgrove

Movie
2001
Kingdom Come

as Marguerite Slocumb

Movie
2000Movie
2000
Boston Public

as Marla Hendricks

TV
2000Movie
2000
Girlfriends

as Judge Vashti Jackson

TV
2000
Best Actress

as Connie Travers

Movie
2000
Freedom Song

as Evelyn Walker

Movie
2000
Punks

as Health Counselor

Movie
1999
Love Kills

as Sylvia Finkelstein

Movie
1999
Family Law

as Gloria Rivers

TV
1999Movie
1999
Jackie's Back!

as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)

Movie
1999
The Breaks

as Floria

Movie
1999
Funny Valentines

as Dearie B.

Movie
1999
The PJs

as Muriel Stubbs (voice)

TV
1998Movie
1998
Urban Legend

as Reese Wilson

Movie
1997Movie
1997
Lover Girl

as Leticia / 'Coco'

Movie
1997
Clover

as Everleen

Movie
1997
Ally McBeal

as Nora Mills

TV
1997
Hoodlum

as Pigfoot Mary

Movie
1997Movie
1996Movie
1996
Promised Land

as Tonya Hawkins

TV
1996
Moesha

as Steph

TV
1995Movie
1995
Ned & Stacey

as Mrs. Duncan

TV
1994
Touched by an Angel

as Tonya Hawkins

TV
1993Movie
1992
Out All Night

as Crystal

TV
1992
Class Act

as Blade's Mom

Movie
1991
Livin' Large!

as Nadine Biggs

Movie
1991TV
1991
Roc

as Cynthia

TV
1991
Caged Fear

as Judy

Movie
1991Movie
1990TV
1990Movie
1989Movie
1988
Murphy Brown

as Nurse Hawking

TV
1988Movie
1988
Little Nikita

as Verna McLaughlin

Movie
1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan

as Annie Maude Carter

TV
1987
A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

TV
1983Movie
1981
Will

as Jean

Movie
1971TV
Movie
Legally Mad

as Jeanette Harris

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayAugust 21, 1949
Place of BirthHouston, Texas, USA
Popularity1.6