Loretta Devine
August 21, 1949 (76 years old) in Houston, Texas, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Finding Faith as
- 2024 · Holidazed as Linda Lewin
- 2024 · Doctor Odyssey as Jill Manafort
- 2024 · Everybody Still Hates Chris as (voice)
- 2023 · Young Love as Gigi Young (voice)
- 2023 · Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In! as Hallie (voice)
- 2023 · A Snowy Day in Oakland as Jeanette
- 2022 · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules as Irene (voice)
- 2022 · Mack & Rita as Sharon
- 2022 · Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10! as Hallie (voice)
- 2021 · Christmas Déjà Vu as Crystal
- 2021 · Christmas in Harmony as Mama
- 2021 · The Starling as Velma
- 2021 · Teenage Euthanasia as
- 2021 · Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem as Angela
- 2021 · Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
- 2021 · Queen Bees as Sally
- 2020 · Spell as Eloise
- 2020 · GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
- 2020 · P-Valley as Ernestine
- 2020 · Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race as Fabulosity - Contestant
- 2019 · Postmarked as Hattie
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- 2019 · A Black Lady Sketch Show as Marrier
- 2019 · Family Reunion as M'Dear
- 2018 · Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend as Self
- 2018 · Sierra Burgess Is a Loser as Ms. Thomson
- 2018 · Summer Camp Island as Sea Cow (voice)
- 2017 · Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
- 2017 · Naked as Carol
- 2017 · Dear White People as Sorbet (voice)
- 2016 · No Regrets as Ms. Carey
- 2016 · Grandma's House as
- 2016 · Caged No More as Aggie
- 2016 · Norm of the North as Tamecia (voice)
- 2015 · The Sound and the Fury as Dilsey
- 2015 · The Carmichael Show as Cynthia Carmichael
- 2014 · You're Not You as Marilyn
- 2014 · black-ish as Lynette
- 2014 · Sirens as Hank's Mother
- 2013 · Khumba as Mama V (voice)
- 2012 · The Soul Man as Della Ballentine
- 2012 · The Client List as Georgia Cummings
- 2012 · Doc McStuffins as Nurse Hallie (voice)
- 2012 · Doc McStuffins as Hattie (voice)
- 2011 · Jumping the Broom as Mrs. Taylor
- 2011 · Madea's Big Happy Family as Shirley
- 2011 · Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 as Delta (voice)
- 2010 · Shake It Up as Marsha Sanders
- 2010 · For Colored Girls as Juanita / Green
- 2010 · Lottery Ticket as Grandma
- 2010 · Death at a Funeral as Cynthia
- 2009 · Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 2009 · Spring Breakdown as Dr. Marguerite
- 2009 · Glee as Sister Mary Constance
- 2009 · Party Down as Diane Ellison
- 2009 · RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
- 2008 · Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Delta (voice)
- 2008 · Eli Stone as Patti Dellacroix
- 2008 · First Sunday as Sister Doris
- 2007 · This Christmas as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
- 2007 · Cougar Club as Dolly
- 2006 · Dreamgirls as Jazz Singer
- 2006 · Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story as Addie Collins
- 2006 · Psych as Melba Birdson
- 2005 · Everybody Hates Chris as Maxine
- 2005 · Supernatural as Missouri Moseley
- 2005 · Crash as Shaniqua Johnson
- 2005 · King's Ransom as Miss Gladys
- 2005 · Grey's Anatomy as Adele Webber
- 2004 · Boston Legal as Judge Victoria Thomson
- 2004 · Boston Legal as Annabelle Carruthers
- 2003 · Cold Case as Chandra Patterson (2009)
- 2003 · Wild Card as M. Pearl McGuire
- 2002 · Half & Half as Erika Duke
- 2002 · Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs as
- 2001 · I Am Sam as Margaret Calgrove
- 2001 · Kingdom Come as Marguerite Slocumb
- 2000 · What Women Want as Flo
- 2000 · Boston Public as Marla Hendricks
- 2000 · Urban Legends: Final Cut as Reese
- 2000 · Girlfriends as Judge Vashti Jackson
- 2000 · Strong Medicine as
- 2000 · Freedom Song as Evelyn Walker
- 1999 · Love Kills as Sylvia Finkelstein
- 1999 · Family Law as Gloria Rivers
- 1999 · Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Ruby Dandridge
- 1999 · Jackie's Back! as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
- 1999 · The Breaks as Floria
- 1999 · The PJs as Muriel Stubbs (voice)
- 1998 · Urban Legend as Reese Wilson
- 1997 · Ally McBeal as Nora Mills
- 1997 · Hoodlum as Pigfoot Mary
- 1997 · The Price of Kissing as Jackee
- 1996 · The Preacher's Wife as Beverly
- 1996 · Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Miss Mary
- 1996 · Promised Land as Tonya Hawkins
- 1996 · Moesha as
- 1995 · Waiting to Exhale as Gloria
- 1995 · Ned & Stacey as Mrs. Duncan
- 1995 · Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mother (voice)
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Tonya Hawkins
- 1993 · Amos & Andrew as Ula
- 1993 · The American Clock as
- 1992 · Love & War as
- 1992 · Out All Night as Crystal
- 1992 · Class Act as Blade's Mom
- 1991 · Roc as
- 1991 · Roc as Cynthia
- 1991 · Caged Fear as Judy
- 1991 · The Colored Museum as Janine
- 1990 · Cop Rock as
- 1990 · Sugar and Spice as
- 1990 · Stanley & Iris as Bertha
- 1989 · Parent Trap III as Thelma
- 1988 · Murphy Brown as Nurse Hawking
- 1988 · Sticky Fingers as Diane
- 1988 · Little Nikita as Verna McLaughlin
- 1988 · The Murder of Mary Phagan as Annie Maude Carter
- 1987 · A Different World as Stevie Rallen
- 1987 · A Different World as Stevie Rallen
- 1983 · Anna to the Infinite Power as Mrs. Benson
- 1981 · Will as Jean
- Future · Lottery Ticket 2 as Grandma
- 2024 · Lost & Found in Cleveland as Joy Morris
- 2024 · Tempted by Love as Miss Mimi
- 2024 · Bull Street as Mrs. Big-Gal
- 2022 · All I Didn't Want for Christmas as Lorraine
- 2020 · Always and Forever as Elda
- 2020 · Connecting... as Dayleen
- 2019 · A Family Reunion Christmas as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
- 2019 · A Sweet Christmas Romance as Loretta
- 2019 · The Trap as Mama Jay
- 2019 · Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self
- 2018 · The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special as Hallie (voice)
- 2018 · Jingle Belle as Emory Simons
- 2018 · Behind the Movement as Jo Ann Robinson
- 2017 · Chapter & Verse as Miss Maddy
- 2016 · Brett Gelman's Dinner in America as Herself
- 2015 · For the Love of Ruth as Naomi
- 2015 · Back to School Mom as Meghan Graham
- 2015 · Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
- 2014 · Welcome to Me as Barb Vaughn
- 2014 · Comeback Dad as Malinda
- 2014 · Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way as Hallie
- 2013 · The Doc Files as Hallie (voice)
- 2011 · State of Georgia as Honey Dupree
- 2010 · My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done as Miss Roberts
- Future · Legally Mad as Jeanette Harris
- Future · Break the Cycle as
- 2013 · A Very Larry Christmas as Mrs. Claus
- 2013 · Saving Westbrook High as Doris
- 2012 · In the Hive as Mrs. Inez
- 2011 · Politics of Love as Shirlee Gupta
- 2010 · Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play as
- 2009 · Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s as Self
- 2006 · Dirty Laundry as Evelyn
- 2004 · Woman Thou Art Loosed as Cassey Jordan
- 2000 · Best Actress as Connie Travers
- 2000 · Punks as Health Counselor
- 1999 · Funny Valentines as Dearie B.
- 1998 · Down in the Delta as Zenia
- 1997 · Don King: Only in America as Connie Harper
- 1997 · Lover Girl as Leticia / 'Coco'
- 1997 · Clover as Everleen
- 1991 · Livin' Large! as Nadine Biggs
- 1971 · Great Performances as Janine