Portrait of Jill Scott

Jill Scott

Acting

Biography

Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status. Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jill Scott (singer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: April 4, 1972

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Filmography

2025
Football Fantastics

as Jill Scott

2023
2021
The Weakest Link

as Self - Contestant

2021
Abbott Elementary

as Jill Scott

2021
Highway to Heaven

as Angela Stewart

2020
VERZUZ

as Self

2019
First Wives Club

as Hazel Rachelle

2019
2018
Black Lightning

as Lady Eve

2017
Love Beats Rhymes

as Professor Dixon

2017
Flint

as Nayyirah Shariff

2015
With This Ring

as Viviane

2014
black-ish

as Yaya

2014
Get on Up

as DeeDee Brown

2013
2013
Baggage Claim

as Gail Best

2012
2010
2010
Black Panther

as Storm (voice)

2009
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

as Mma Precious Ramotswe

2008
Fringe

as Simone

2007
Hounddog

as Big mma thorton

2005
2004
Cavedweller

as Rosemary

2000
Girlfriends

as Donna Williams

1997
The View

as Self

1953
The Oscars

as Self

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Mahalia!

as Mahalia Jackson