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
Movies
- Christmas in Harmony
2021
- Class Act
1992
- Hoodlum
1997
- The Preacher's Wife
1996
- Waiting to Exhale
1995
- Love Kills
1999
- Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
- Urban Legend
1998
- Death at a Funeral
2010
- Dirty Laundry
2006
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
- First Sunday
2008
- Lottery Ticket
2010
- This Christmas
2007
- Livin' Large!
1991
- Don King: Only in Ameri...
1997
- Punks
2000
- Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004
- My Son, My Son, What Ha...
2010
- For Colored Girls
2010
- Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
- Politics of Love
2011
- Introducing Dorothy Dan...
1999
- Jumping the Broom
2011
- Christmas Déjà Vu
2021
- The Price of Kissing
1997
- Down in the Delta
1998
- Lover Girl
1997
- The Colored Museum
1991
- Clover
1997
- Sticky Fingers
1988
- Khumba
2013
- In the Hive
2012
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: R...
2022
- Doc Mcstuffins: A Littl...
2014
- Funny Valentines
1999
- Norm of the North
2016
- Crash
2005
- Doc McStuffins: Cuddle ...
2015
- Kingdom Come
2001
- Caged Fear
1991
- Best Actress
2000
- You're Not You
2014
- Doc McStuffins: The Doc...
2022
- Bull Street
2024
- Lost & Found in Clevela...
2024
- I Am Sam
2001
- Stanley & Iris
1990
- All I Didn't Want for C...
2022
- Back to School Mom
2015
- A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
- Break the Cycle
- Welcome to Me
2014
- Dreamgirls
2006
- Freedom Song
2000
- Broadway: The Next Gene...
2017
- Rebound: The Legend of ...
1996
- Caged No More
2016
- A Very Larry Christmas
2013
- Life Is Not a Fairytale...
2006
- No Regrets
2016
- Grandma's House
2016
- The Sound and the Fury
2015
- Brett Gelman's Dinner i...
2016
- Saving Westbrook High
2013
- Chapter & Verse
2017
- Naked
2017
- What Women Want
2000
- The American Clock
1993
- Amos & Andrew
1993
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua...
2011
- Behind the Movement
2018
- Always and Forever
2020
- Jingle Belle
2018
- The Doc McStuffins Chri...
2018
- Urban Legacy: The Story...
2018
- King's Ransom
2005
- The Trap
2019
- The Breaks
1999
- Book of Love: The Defin...
2002
- The Starling
2021
- Horror Noire: A History...
2019
- A Sweet Christmas Roman...
2019
- For the Love of Ruth
2015
- A Family Reunion Christ...
2019
- Parent Trap III
1989
- Anna to the Infinite Po...
1983
- Comeback Dad
2014
- Sierra Burgess Is a Los...
2018
- Spring Breakdown
2009
- Postmarked
2019
- Spell
2020
- Queen Bees
2021
- Little Nikita
1988
- Cougar Club
2007
- Will
1981
- Mack & Rita
2022
- Broadway: Beyond the Go...
2021
- Jackie's Back!
1999
- Finding Faith
- Hollywood Singing & Dan...
2009
- Tempted by Love
2024
TV Shows
- A Different World
1987
- Boston Public
2000
- Eli Stone
2008
- Everybody Hates Chris
2005
- Grey's Anatomy
2005
- Half & Half
2002
- Ally McBeal
1997
- Touched by an Angel
1994
- Cold Case
2003
- Girlfriends
2000
- Murphy Brown
1988
- Tamron Hall
2019
- Moesha
1996
- Strong Medicine
2000
- The PJs
1999
- Boston Legal
2004
- Wild Card
2003
- Family Law
1999
- Promised Land
1996
- Cop Rock
1990
- Legally Mad
- Party Down
2009
- Sugar and Spice
1990
- P-Valley
2020
- The Client List
2012
- Young Love
2023
- State of Georgia
2011
- Doc McStuffins
2012
- Supernatural
2005
- RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
- The Carmichael Show
2015
- Teenage Euthanasia
2021
- Doc McStuffins: The Doc...
2023
- The Doc Files
2013
- Doc McStuffins
2012
- Roc
1991
- Roc
1991
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
- Happily Ever After: Fai...
1995
- Days of Our Lives: Beyo...
2021
- Summer Camp Island
2018
- A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
- Family Reunion
2019
- Secret Celebrity RuPaul...
2020
- Out All Night
1992
- Glee
2009
- Connecting...
2020
- black-ish
2014
- Dear White People
2017
- The Murder of Mary Phag...
1988
- Sirens
2014
- GAME ON: A Comedy Cross...
2020
- Watch What Happens Live...
2009
- Love & War
1992
- Shake It Up
2010
- Psych
2006
- Great Performances
1971
- Everybody Still Hates C...
2024
- Ned and Stacey
1995
- Doctor Odyssey
2024
- Holidazed
2024