Loretta Devine

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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.

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Known For

Grey's Anatomy

Adele Webber

Supernatural

Missouri Moseley

What Women Want

Flo

Crash

Shaniqua Johnson

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Ms. Thomson

I Am Sam

Margaret Calgrove

Urban Legend

Reese Wilson

Naked

Carol

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2026	Three Colors: Pan-African MOVIE	Nana
2025	Deck the Hallways MOVIE	Agnes
2025	The Christmas Showdown MOVIE	Hen
2025	Lost & Found in Cleveland MOVIE	Joy Morris
2025	Finding Faith MOVIE	Self
2024	Holidazed TV	Linda Lewin
2024	Doctor Odyssey TV	Jill Manafort
2024	Everybody Still Hates Chris TV	(voice)
2024	Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love MOVIE	Miss Mimi
2024	Bull Street MOVIE	Mrs. Big-Gal
2023	Lucille MOVIE	Lucille
2023	Young Love TV	Gigi Young (voice)
2023	Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In! TV	Hallie (voice)
2023	A Snowy Day in Oakland MOVIE	Jeanette
2022	All I Didn't Want for Christmas MOVIE	Lorraine
2022	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules MOVIE	Irene (voice)
2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show TV	Self - Guest
2022	Mack & Rita MOVIE	Sharon
2022	Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10! MOVIE	Hallie (voice)
2021	Christmas Déjà Vu MOVIE	Crystal
2021	Christmas in Harmony MOVIE	Mama
2021	The Starling MOVIE	Velma
2021	Teenage Euthanasia TV	Self
2021	Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem TV	Angela
2021	Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age MOVIE	Self
2021	Queen Bees MOVIE	Sally
2020	Always and Forever MOVIE	Elda
2020	Spell MOVIE	Eloise
2020	Connecting... TV	Dayleen
2020	GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event TV	Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2020	P-Valley TV	Ernestine
2020	Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race TV	Fabulosity - Contestant
2019	A Family Reunion Christmas MOVIE	Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2019	A Sweet Christmas Romance MOVIE	Loretta
2019	Postmarked MOVIE	Hattie
2019	Tamron Hall TV	Self - Guest
2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show TV	Self
2019	A Black Lady Sketch Show TV	Marrier
2019	Family Reunion TV	M'Dear
2019	The Trap MOVIE	Mama Jay
2019	Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror MOVIE	Self
2018	The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special MOVIE	Hallie (voice)
2018	Jingle Belle MOVIE	Emory Simons
2018	Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend MOVIE	Self
2018	Behind the Movement MOVIE	Jo Ann Robinson
2018	Sierra Burgess Is a Loser MOVIE	Ms. Thomson
2018	Summer Camp Island TV	Sea Cow (voice)
2017	Naked MOVIE	Carol
2017	Dear White People TV	Sorbet (voice)
2017	Chapter & Verse MOVIE	Miss Maddy
2016	No Regrets MOVIE	Ms. Carey
2016	Brett Gelman's Dinner in America MOVIE	Herself
2016	Grandma's House MOVIE	Self
2016	Caged No More MOVIE	Aggie
2016	Norm of the North MOVIE	Tamecia (voice)
2015	The Sound and the Fury MOVIE	Dilsey
2015	The Carmichael Show TV	Cynthia Carmichael
2015	For the Love of Ruth MOVIE	Naomi
2015	Welcome to Me MOVIE	Barb Vaughn
2015	Back to School Mom MOVIE	Meghan Graham
2015	Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie MOVIE	Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
2014	A Very Larry Christmas MOVIE	Mrs. Claus
2014	You're Not You MOVIE	Marilyn
2014	black-ish TV	Lynette
2014	Comeback Dad MOVIE	Malinda
2014	Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way MOVIE	Hallie
2014	Sirens TV	Hank's Mother
2013	Saving Westbrook High MOVIE	Doris
2013	The Doc Files TV	Hallie (voice)
2013	Khumba MOVIE	Mama V (voice)
2012	In the Hive MOVIE	Mrs. Inez
2012	The Soul Man TV	Della Ballentine
2012	The Client List TV	Georgia Cummings
2012	Doc McStuffins TV	Nurse Hallie (voice)
2012	Doc McStuffins TV	Hattie (voice)
2011	Politics of Love MOVIE	Shirlee Gupta
2011	State of Georgia TV	Honey Dupree
2011	Jumping the Broom MOVIE	Mrs. Taylor
2011	Madea's Big Happy Family MOVIE	Shirley
2011	Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 MOVIE	Delta (voice)
2010	Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play MOVIE	Self
2010	Shake It Up TV	Marsha Sanders
2010	For Colored Girls MOVIE	Juanita / Green
2010	Lottery Ticket MOVIE	Grandma
2010	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done MOVIE	Miss Roberts
2010	Death at a Funeral MOVIE	Cynthia
2009	Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s MOVIE	Self
2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen TV	Self - Guest
2009	Spring Breakdown MOVIE	Dr. Marguerite
2009	Glee TV	Sister Mary Constance
2009	Party Down TV	Diane Ellison
2009	RuPaul's Drag Race TV	Self - Guest Judge
2008	Beverly Hills Chihuahua MOVIE	Delta (voice)
2008	Eli Stone TV	Patti Dellacroix
2008	First Sunday MOVIE	Sister Doris
2007	This Christmas MOVIE	Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
2007	Cougar Club MOVIE	Dolly
2006	Dreamgirls MOVIE	Jazz Singer
2006	Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story MOVIE	Addie Collins
2006	Dirty Laundry MOVIE	Evelyn
2006	Psych TV	Melba Birdson
2005	Everybody Hates Chris TV	Maxine
2005	Supernatural TV	Missouri Moseley
2005	Crash MOVIE	Shaniqua Johnson
2005	King's Ransom MOVIE	Miss Gladys
2005	Grey's Anatomy TV	Adele Webber
2004	Boston Legal TV	Judge Victoria Thomson
2004	Boston Legal TV	Annabelle Carruthers
2004	Woman Thou Art Loosed MOVIE	Cassey Jordan
2003	Cold Case TV	Chandra Patterson (2009)
2003	Wild Card TV	M. Pearl McGuire
2002	Half & Half TV	Erika Duke
2002	Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs MOVIE	Self
2001	I Am Sam MOVIE	Margaret Calgrove
2001	Kingdom Come MOVIE	Marguerite Slocumb
2000	What Women Want MOVIE	Flo
2000	Boston Public TV	Marla Hendricks
2000	Urban Legends: Final Cut MOVIE	Reese
2000	Girlfriends TV	Judge Vashti Jackson
2000	Strong Medicine TV	Self
2000	Best Actress MOVIE	Connie Travers
2000	Freedom Song MOVIE	Evelyn Walker
2000	Punks MOVIE	Health Counselor
1999	Love Kills MOVIE	Sylvia Finkelstein
1999	Family Law TV	Gloria Rivers
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge MOVIE	Ruby Dandridge
1999	Jackie's Back! MOVIE	Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
1999	The Breaks MOVIE	Floria
1999	Funny Valentines MOVIE	Dearie B.
1999	The PJs TV	Muriel Stubbs (voice)
1998	Down in the Delta MOVIE	Zenia
1998	Urban Legend MOVIE	Reese Wilson
1997	Don King: Only in America MOVIE	Connie Harper
1997	Lover Girl MOVIE	Leticia / 'Coco'
1997	Clover MOVIE	Everleen
1997	Ally McBeal TV	Nora Mills
1997	Hoodlum MOVIE	Pigfoot Mary
1997	The Price of Kissing MOVIE	Jackee
1996	The Preacher's Wife MOVIE	Beverly
1996	Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault MOVIE	Miss Mary
1996	Promised Land TV	Tonya Hawkins
1996	Moesha TV	Steph
1995	Waiting to Exhale MOVIE	Gloria
1995	Ned & Stacey TV	Mrs. Duncan
1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child TV	Mother (voice)
1994	Touched by an Angel TV	Tonya Hawkins
1993	Amos & Andrew MOVIE	Ula
1993	The American Clock MOVIE	Self
1992	Love & War TV	Self
1992	Out All Night TV	Crystal
1992	Class Act MOVIE	Blade's Mom
1991	Livin' Large! MOVIE	Nadine Biggs
1991	Roc TV	Self
1991	Roc TV	Cynthia
1991	Caged Fear MOVIE	Judy
1991	The Colored Museum MOVIE	Janine
1990	Cop Rock TV	Self
1990	Sugar and Spice TV	Self
1990	Stanley & Iris MOVIE	Bertha
1989	Parent Trap III MOVIE	Thelma
1988	Murphy Brown TV	Nurse Hawking
1988	Sticky Fingers MOVIE	Diane
1988	Little Nikita MOVIE	Verna McLaughlin
1988	The Murder of Mary Phagan TV	Annie Maude Carter
1987	A Different World TV	Stevie Rallen
1983	Anna to the Infinite Power MOVIE	Mrs. Benson
1981	Will MOVIE	Jean
1971	Great Performances TV	Janine
	Break the Cycle MOVIE	Self
	Broadway: The Next Generation MOVIE	Self
	That's Her MOVIE	Self
	Legally Mad TV	Jeanette Harris

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