Portrait of Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: August 21, 1949

Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA

Filmography

2025
2025
2024
Holidazed

as Linda Lewin

2024
Doctor Odyssey

as Jill Manafort

2024
Tempted by Love

as Miss Mimi

2024
Bull Street

as Mrs. Big-Gal

2023
Young Love

as Gigi Young (voice)

2023
2022
Mack & Rita

as Sharon

2022
2021
2021
The Starling

as Velma

2021
Queen Bees

as Sally

2020
Spell

as Eloise

2020
Connecting...

as Dayleen

2020
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

2020
P-Valley

as Ernestine

2020
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race

as Fabulosity - Contestant

2019
A Family Reunion Christmas

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

2019
Postmarked

as Hattie

2019
Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

2019
2019
The Trap

as Mama Jay

2018
Jingle Belle

as Emory Simons

2018
Behind the Movement

as Jo Ann Robinson

2018
2018
Summer Camp Island

as Sea Cow (voice)

2017
Naked

as Carol

2017
Dear White People

as Sorbet (voice)

2017
Chapter & Verse

as Miss Maddy

2016
No Regrets

as Ms. Carey

2016
2016
Norm of the North

as Tamecia (voice)

2015
The Carmichael Show

as Cynthia Carmichael

2015
Welcome to Me

as Barb Vaughn

2015
Back to School Mom

as Meghan Graham

2015
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie

as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)

2014
2014
You're Not You

as Marilyn

2014
black-ish

as Lynette

2014
Comeback Dad

as Malinda

2014
Sirens

as Hank's Mother

2013
The Doc Files

as Hallie (voice)

2013
Khumba

as Mama V (voice)

2012
In the Hive

as Mrs. Inez

2012
The Soul Man

as Della Ballentine

2012
The Client List

as Georgia Cummings

2012
Doc McStuffins

as Nurse Hallie (voice)

2012
Doc McStuffins

as Hattie (voice)

2011
Politics of Love

as Shirlee Gupta

2011
State of Georgia

as Honey Dupree

2011
Jumping the Broom

as Mrs. Taylor

2011
2010
Shake It Up

as Marsha Sanders

2010
For Colored Girls

as Juanita / Green

2010
Lottery Ticket

as Grandma

2010
2009
Spring Breakdown

as Dr. Marguerite

2009
Glee

as Sister Mary Constance

2009
Party Down

as Diane Ellison

2009
RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua

as Delta (voice)

2008
Eli Stone

as Patti Dellacroix

2008
First Sunday

as Sister Doris

2007
This Christmas

as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield

2007
Cougar Club

as Dolly

2006
Dreamgirls

as Jazz Singer

2006
Dirty Laundry

as Evelyn

2006
Psych

as Melba Birdson

2005
Supernatural

as Missouri Moseley

2005
Crash

as Shaniqua Johnson

2005
King's Ransom

as Miss Gladys

2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Adele Webber

2004
Boston Legal

as Judge Victoria Thomson

2004
Boston Legal

as Annabelle Carruthers

2004
Woman Thou Art Loosed

as Cassey Jordan

2003
Cold Case

as Chandra Patterson (2009)

2003
Wild Card

as M. Pearl McGuire

2002
Half & Half

as Erika Duke

2001
I Am Sam

as Margaret Calgrove

2001
Kingdom Come

as Marguerite Slocumb

2000
2000
Boston Public

as Marla Hendricks

2000
Girlfriends

as Judge Vashti Jackson

2000
Best Actress

as Connie Travers

2000
Freedom Song

as Evelyn Walker

2000
Punks

as Health Counselor

1999
Love Kills

as Sylvia Finkelstein

1999
Family Law

as Gloria Rivers

1999
1999
Jackie's Back!

as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)

1999
The Breaks

as Floria

1999
Funny Valentines

as Dearie B.

1999
The PJs

as Muriel Stubbs (voice)

1998
1998
Urban Legend

as Reese Wilson

1997
1997
Lover Girl

as Leticia / 'Coco'

1997
Clover

as Everleen

1997
Ally McBeal

as Nora Mills

1997
Hoodlum

as Pigfoot Mary

1996
1996
Promised Land

as Tonya Hawkins

1996
Moesha

as Steph

1995
1995
Ned & Stacey

as Mrs. Duncan

1994
Touched by an Angel

as Tonya Hawkins

1993
1992
Class Act

as Blade's Mom

1991
Livin' Large!

as Nadine Biggs

1991
1991
Roc

as Cynthia

1991
Caged Fear

as Judy

1991
1990
1989
1988
Murphy Brown

as Nurse Hawking

1988
1988
Little Nikita

as Verna McLaughlin

1988
The Murder of Mary Phagan

as Annie Maude Carter

1987
A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

1987
A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

1983
1981
Will

as Jean

1971