Filmography
- The Education of Sonny Carson (1974)
- The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)
- Sanford and Son (1974–1975)
- Good Times (1975)
- Just an Old Sweet Song (1976)
- Sparkle (1976) as Effie
- Lawman Without a Gun (1979)
- All My Children (1980)
- The Color of Friendship (1981)
- The Brass Ring (1983)
- Beat Street (1984) as Cora Kirkland
- Concealed Enemies (1984)
- Teachers (1984)
- Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom (1985)
- A Different World (1987) as Leticia "Lettie" Bostic (Episodes 13–21, 23–44)
- The Women of Brewster Place (1989) as Fannie Michael
- Awakenings (1990)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Suzie
- To Sleep with Anger (1990)
- I'll Fly Away (1991) as Marguerite Peck
- Malcolm X (1992)
- A Perfect World (1993)
- Laurel Avenue (1993) as Maggie Arnett
- Life with Mikey (1993) as Mrs. Gordon
- Law & Order (1993) as Virginia Bryan (episode "Mother Love")
- The Mother (1994)
- The Inkwell (1994) as Evelyn
- The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
- Heading Home (1995)
- Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder (1995)
- Bed of Roses (1996)
- Down in the Delta (1998) as Rosa Lynn Sinclair
- Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (1999) as Dolores Williams
- The Wishing Tree (1999)
- The Photographer (2000) as Violet
- The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
- Sunshine State (2002) as Mrs. Eunice Stokes
- The Life (2002)
- Enter the Matrix (2003)
- The Matrix Revolutions (2003) as The Oracle
- What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices From Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003)
- The Burly Man Chronicles (2004)
- The Matrix Recalibrated (2004)
- The Matrix Online (2005)
- Narrator Crime Scene USA (2000–2009)
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