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Loretta Devine

Born 1949-08-21

📍 Houston, Texas, USA

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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Filmography 167

Three Colors: Pan-African

Deck the Hallways

The Christmas Showdown

Lost & Found in Cleveland

as Jill Manafort

Everybody Still Hates Chris

Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love

as Mrs. Big-Gal

as Gigi Young (voice)

Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!

as Hallie (voice)

A Snowy Day in Oakland

All I Didn't Want for Christmas

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

as Irene (voice)

The Jennifer Hudson Show

as Self - Guest

Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!

as Hallie (voice)

Christmas Déjà Vu

Christmas in Harmony

Teenage Euthanasia

Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

Always and Forever

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race

as Fabulosity - Contestant

A Family Reunion Christmas

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

A Sweet Christmas Romance

as Self - Guest

The Kelly Clarkson Show

A Black Lady Sketch Show

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special

as Hallie (voice)

as Emory Simons

Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend

Behind the Movement

as Jo Ann Robinson

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Summer Camp Island

as Sea Cow (voice)

Dear White People

as Sorbet (voice)

Chapter & Verse

Grandma's House

Norm of the North

as Tamecia (voice)

The Sound and the Fury

The Carmichael Show

as Cynthia Carmichael

For the Love of Ruth

Back to School Mom

as Meghan Graham

Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie

as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)

A Very Larry Christmas

Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way

as Hank's Mother

Saving Westbrook High

as Hallie (voice)

as Mama V (voice)

as Della Ballentine

The Client List

as Georgia Cummings

as Nurse Hallie (voice)

as Hattie (voice)

Politics of Love

as Shirlee Gupta

State of Georgia

as Honey Dupree

Jumping the Broom

Madea's Big Happy Family

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

as Delta (voice)

Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play

as Marsha Sanders

For Colored Girls

as Juanita / Green

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

as Miss Roberts

Death at a Funeral

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

as Self - Guest

Spring Breakdown

as Dr. Marguerite

as Sister Mary Constance

as Diane Ellison

RuPaul's Drag Race

as Self - Guest Judge

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

as Delta (voice)

as Patti Dellacroix

as Sister Doris

as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

as Addie Collins

as Melba Birdson

Everybody Hates Chris

as Missouri Moseley

as Shaniqua Johnson

as Adele Webber

as Judge Victoria Thomson

as Annabelle Carruthers

Woman Thou Art Loosed

as Cassey Jordan

as Chandra Patterson (2009)

as M. Pearl McGuire

Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs

as Margaret Calgrove

as Marguerite Slocumb

What Women Want

as Marla Hendricks

Urban Legends: Final Cut

as Judge Vashti Jackson

Strong Medicine

as Connie Travers

as Evelyn Walker

as Health Counselor

as Sylvia Finkelstein

as Gloria Rivers

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

as Ruby Dandridge

as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)

Funny Valentines

as Muriel Stubbs (voice)

Down in the Delta

as Reese Wilson

Don King: Only in America

as Connie Harper

as Leticia / 'Coco'

as Pigfoot Mary

The Price of Kissing

The Preacher's Wife

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Tonya Hawkins

Waiting to Exhale

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Mother (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Tonya Hawkins

The American Clock

as Nadine Biggs

The Colored Museum

Sugar and Spice

Parent Trap III

as Nurse Hawking

as Verna McLaughlin

The Murder of Mary Phagan

as Annie Maude Carter

A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

Anna to the Infinite Power

Great Performances

Break the Cycle

Broadway: The Next Generation