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Jill Scott
Jill Scott

Jill Scott

ActingBorn April 4, 1972 (age 54)Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status. Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jill Scott (singer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

2025
Ella

as Ella

Movie
2025
Football Fantastics

as Jill Scott

TV
2023Movie
2021
The Weakest Link

as Self - Contestant

TV
2021
Abbott Elementary

as Jill Scott

TV
2021
Highway to Heaven

as Angela Stewart

Movie
2021
Blankety Blank

as Self - Panellist

TV
2020
VERZUZ

as Self

TV
2019
First Wives Club

as Hazel Rachelle

TV
2019TV
2018
Black Lightning

as Lady Eve

TV
2017
Love Beats Rhymes

as Professor Dixon

Movie
2017
Flint

as Nayyirah Shariff

Movie
2015
With This Ring

as Viviane

Movie
2014
black-ish

as Yaya

TV
2014
Get On Up

as DeeDee Brown

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Baggage Claim

as Gail Best

Movie
2012Movie
2010Movie
2010Movie
2010Movie
2010
Black Panther

as Storm (voice)

TV
2009
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

as Mma Precious Ramotswe

TV
2008
Hounddog

as Big mma thorton

Movie
2008
Fringe

as Simone

TV
2007Movie
2005TV
2004
Cavedweller

as Rosemary

Movie
2004Movie
2000
Girlfriends

as Donna Williams

TV
1999TV
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self

TV
Movie
Mahalia!

as Mahalia Jackson

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayApril 4, 1972
Place of BirthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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