Filmography
Film | ||||
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Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
1978 | Remember My Name | Rita | ||
1979 | Freedom Road | Katie | ||
1980 | HealtH | Sally Benbow | ||
1981 | Sophisticated Gents, TheThe Sophisticated Gents | Evelyn Evers | ||
1982 | The Ambush Murders | Kariha Ellsworth | ||
1983 | Cross Creek | Geechee | ||
1986 | Extremities | Patricia | ||
1987 | Mandela | Winnie Mandela | ||
1987 | The Life Saver | Andrea Crawford | ||
1988 | Scrooged | Grace Cooley | ||
1989 | Miss Firecracker | Popeye Jackson | ||
1989 | A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story | Mary Thomas | ||
1990 | Blue Bayou | Jessica Filley | ||
1991 | Grand Canyon | Jane | ||
1991 | Pretty Hattie's Baby | Hattie | Unreleased | |
1992 | Passion Fish | Chantelle | ||
1992 | Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, TheThe Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Attorney Ann Orkin | ||
1993 | Rich in Love | Rhody Poole | ||
1993 | Heart and Souls | Penny Washington | ||
1993 | Bopha! | Rosie Mangena | ||
1994 | Blue Chips | Lavada McRae | ||
1994 | Crooklyn | Carolyn Carmichael | ||
1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | |||
1995 | Piano Lesson, TheThe Piano Lesson | Berniece | ||
1996 | Star Trek: First Contact | Lily Sloane | ||
1996 | Gulliver's Travels | Queen of Brobdingnag | ||
1996 | Primal Fear | Judge Miriam Shoat | ||
1996 | Follow Me Home | Evey | ||
1996 | A Step Toward Tomorrow | Dr. Sandlin | ||
1997 | Cadillac Desert | Narrator | ||
1997 | Miss Evers' Boys | Eunice Evers | ||
1997 | Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue, TheThe Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue | Maise the Cat | ||
1997 | Member of the Wedding, TheThe Member of the Wedding | Berenice Sadie Brown | ||
1998 | Down in the Delta | Loretta Sinclair | ||
1999 | Funny Valentines | Joyce May | ||
1999 | The Wishing Tree | Clara Collier | ||
1999 | Mumford | Lily | ||
2000 | What's Cooking? | Audrey Williams | ||
2000 | Holiday Heart | Wanda | ||
2000 | Love & Basketball | Camille Wright | ||
2000 | Innovators | Herself as Host | ||
2000 | Dinosaur | Plio | Voice role | |
2001 | K-PAX | Claudia Villars | ||
2002 | Searching for Debra Winger | Herself | ||
2002 | Wild Thornberrys Movie, TheThe Wild Thornberrys Movie | Akela | ||
2003 | Singing Detective, TheThe Singing Detective | Chief of Staff | ||
2003 | Core, TheThe Core | Talma Stickley | ||
2003 | Unchained Memories | a reader of a WPA slave narrative. | ||
2003 | Radio | Principal Daniels | ||
2003 | Wrinkle in Time, AA Wrinkle in Time | Mrs. Whatsit | ||
2004 | Forgotten, TheThe Forgotten | Detective Anne Pope | ||
2005 | Beauty Shop | Miss Josephine | ||
2006 | Something New | Joyce McQueen | ||
2006 | Take the Lead | Principal Augustine James | ||
2007 | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Edna Reilly | ||
2008 | American Violet | Alma Roberts | ||
2008 | Family That Preys, TheThe Family That Preys | Alice Pratt | ||
2008 | AmericanEast | Angela Jensen | ||
2009 | Reach for Me | Evelyn | ||
2012 | Steel Magnolias | Ouiser | ||
2013 | Twelve Years a Slave | Harriet Shaw | ||
Television | ||||
Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
1982–83 | Tucker's Witch | Marcia Fulbright | 12 episodes | |
1983 | Hill Street Blues | Doris Robson | 3 episodes | |
1985 | Sara | Rozalyn Dupree | 13 episodes | |
1985, 1988 | St. Elsewhere | Dr. Roxanne Turner | 13 episodes | |
1994 | Frasier | Edna | Episode: "The Botched Language of Cranes" | |
1998 | Homicide: Life on the Street | Dr. Roxanne Turner | Episode: "Mercy" | |
2003 | Practice, TheThe Practice | Denise Freeman | Episodes: "Final Judgement" and "Down the Hatch" | |
2005–06 | Desperate Housewives | Betty Applewhite | 26 episodes, Season 2, series regular | |
2008 | My Own Worst Enemy | Mavis Heller | 9 episodes | |
2009–10 | Three Rivers | Dr. Sophia Jordan | 12 episodes | |
2010, 2012 | True Blood | Ruby Jean Reynolds | 4 episodes | |
2010 | Black Panther | Dondi Reese, Queen Mother | ||
2010–2011 | Memphis Beat | Lt. Tanya Rice | 20 episodes | |
2011 | Grey's Anatomy | Justine Campbell | Episode: "Heart Shaped Box" | |
2012 | Private Practice | Dee Bennett | Episode: "The Next Episode" |
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