Loretta Devine
Acting
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.
Born: August 21, 1949 · Houston, Texas, USA
Filmography (123)
Holidazed
2024
Doctor Odyssey
2024
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024
Young Love
2023
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2022
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Mack & Rita
2022
Christmas in Harmony
2021
The Starling
2021
Teenage Euthanasia
2021
Queen Bees
2021
Always and Forever
2020
Spell
2020
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
2020
P-Valley
2020
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
2020
A Family Reunion Christmas
2019
A Sweet Christmas Romance
2019
Tamron Hall
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Family Reunion
2019
The Trap
2019
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
Jingle Belle
2018
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
Summer Camp Island
2018
Naked
2017
Dear White People
2017
Chapter & Verse
2017
No Regrets
2016
Caged No More
2016
Norm of the North
2016
The Sound and the Fury
2015
The Carmichael Show
2015
Welcome to Me
2015
You're Not You
2014
black-ish
2014
Comeback Dad
2014
Sirens
2014
Khumba
2013
In the Hive
2012
The Soul Man
2012
The Client List
2012
Doc McStuffins
2012
State of Georgia
2011
Jumping the Broom
2011
Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2010
Shake It Up
2010
For Colored Girls
2010
Lottery Ticket
2010
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Death at a Funeral
2010
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Spring Breakdown
2009
Glee
2009
Party Down
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
Eli Stone
2008
First Sunday
2008
This Christmas
2007
Cougar Club
2007
Dreamgirls
2006
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006
Dirty Laundry
2006
Psych
2006
Everybody Hates Chris
2005
Supernatural
2005
Crash
2005
King's Ransom
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Boston Legal
2004
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004
Cold Case
2003
Wild Card
2003
Half & Half
2002
I Am Sam
2001
Kingdom Come
2001
What Women Want
2000
Boston Public
2000
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
Girlfriends
2000
Strong Medicine
2000
Freedom Song
2000
Punks
2000
Family Law
1999
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
Jackie's Back!
1999
The Breaks
1999
Funny Valentines
1999
The PJs
1999
Down in the Delta
1998
Urban Legend
1998
Don King: Only in America
1997
Lover Girl
1997
Ally McBeal
1997
Hoodlum
1997
The Preacher's Wife
1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
Promised Land
1996
Moesha
1996
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Ned & Stacey
1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Touched by an Angel
1994
Amos & Andrew
1993
Love & War
1992
Class Act
1992
Livin' Large!
1991
Roc
1991
Cop Rock
1990
Stanley & Iris
1990
Parent Trap III
1989
Murphy Brown
1988
Sticky Fingers
1988
Little Nikita
1988
A Different World
1987
Anna to the Infinite Power
1983
Great Performances
1971