Loretta Devine
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
Christmas in Harmony
as Mama
2021
Class Act
as Blade's Mom
1992
Hoodlum
as Pigfoot Mary
1997
The Preacher's Wife
as Beverly
1996
Waiting to Exhale
as Gloria
1995
Love Kills
as Sylvia Finkelstein
1999
Urban Legends: Final Cut
as Reese
2000
Urban Legend
as Reese Wilson
1998
Death at a Funeral
as Cynthia
2010
Dirty Laundry
as Evelyn
2006
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Delta (voice)
2008
First Sunday
as Sister Doris
2008
Lottery Ticket
as Grandma
2010
This Christmas
as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
2007
Livin' Large!
as Nadine Biggs
1991
Don King: Only in America
as Connie Harper
1997
Punks
as Health Counselor
2000
Woman Thou Art Loosed
as Cassey Jordan
2004
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
as Miss Roberts
2010
For Colored Girls
as Juanita / Green
2010
TV Appearances
A Different World
as Stevie Rallen
1987
Boston Public
as Marla Hendricks
2000
Eli Stone
as Patti Dellacroix
2008
Everybody Hates Chris
as Maxine
2005
Grey's Anatomy
as Adele Webber
2005
Half & Half
as Erika Duke
2002
Ally McBeal
as Nora Mills
1997
Touched by an Angel
as Tonya Hawkins
1994
Cold Case
as Chandra Patterson (2009)
2003
Girlfriends
as Judge Vashti Jackson
2000
Murphy Brown
as Nurse Hawking
1988
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019