Loretta Devine was born on August 21, 1949 in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Houston in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Drama and BrandeisUniversity in 1976 with a MFA in Theater. Devine is a member of The Epsilon Lambda Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She began her career on Broadway starring in Dreamgirls. Minor roles for Devine followed in films such as Little Nikita (1988) and Stanley & Iris (1990). She also appeared in the first season of the TV series A Different World. In 1995, she landed a high-profile role as Gloria Matthews in Waiting to Exhale, joined in the cast by Whitney Houston, Gregory Hines, and Angela Bassett, among others. The role earned her an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress, as did her next movie, The Preacher’s Wife, her second movie with Houston and Hines. In 2000, Devine took on the role of impassioned high school teacher Marla Hendricks on the Fox TV drama Boston Public. Devine won three more Image Awards for her work in the series. She also continued to work in film, playing prominent roles in Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, and I Am Sam. Devine earned yet another Image Award nomination and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her work in the 2004 film Woman Thou Art Loosed. She also appeared in the 2005 Academy Awards Best Picture winning film Crash. She also plays Rochelle’s mother, Maxine on the sitcom, Everybody Hates Chris. In 2007, she appeared in This Christmas, co-starring Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, and Regina King. Devine also appeared in Grey’s Anatomy as Adele Webber. She played Patti on Eli Stone, an ABC television series which began airing in 2008 an in 2009, Devine starred in the TV series Cold Case. Most recently she can be seen in Lottery Ticket (2010), For Colored Girls (2010), Death at a Funeral and Madea’s Big Happy Family (2011).
Loretta Devine Biography / Wiki
| Name | Loretta Devine |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Houston, Texas, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1949-08-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday |
Loretta Devine Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| This Christmas | Shirley Ann “Ma’Dere” Whitfield | 2007-11-27 | This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and the… |
| Grandma’s House | 2016-04-29 | Based upon the true story of Kimberley T. Zulkowski’s Grandmother, Margie Ree Harris. “Grandma’s House” gives a compelling insight into how the Execut… | |
| Saving Westbrook High | Doris | 2013-10-20 | A diverse community, an ambitious newly-appointed principal and a handful of committed teachers come together to save a once popular suburban school i… |
| Dirty Laundry | Evelyn | 2006-07-15 | After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spiri… |
| Woman Thou Art Loosed | Cassey Jordan | 2004-09-30 | An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ self-help novel, chronciling a woman’s struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty…. |
| Madea’s Big Happy Family | Shirley | 2011-04-22 | When Shirley, Madea’s niece, receives distressing news about her health, the only thing she wants is her family gathered around her. However, Shirley’… |
| In the Hive | Mrs. Inez | 2012-12-14 | Sixteen-year-old Xtra Keys hopes to raise his son better than his boozy, razor-edged mother raised him, and he just might get his wish when he’s thrus… |
| Funny Valentines | Dearie B. | 1999-02-14 | A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin…. |
| Chapter & Verse | Miss Maddy | 2017-02-03 | Upon his return from serving a ten-year sentence in prison, reformed gang leader, S. Lance Ingram, struggles to adapt to a changed Harlem. Unable to u… |
| The Breaks | Floria | 1999-02-26 | Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and … |
| Spell | Eloise | 2020-10-30 | A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the… |
| Will | 1981-01-01 | Will, shot on location in 1980s Harlem, focuses on Will (played by Obaka Adedunyo), a girls’ basketball coach fighting through a heroin addiction, w… | |
| Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10! | Hallie (voice) | 2022-03-23 | Doc McStuffins gets help from her friends and fans to make this her best birthday ever!… |
| Waiting to Exhale | Gloria Matthews | 1995-12-22 | Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive “good man” to break a string of less-than-stellar l… |
| For Colored Girls | Juanita / Green | 2010-11-05 | About existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of tw… |
| Politics of Love | Shirlee Gupta | 2011-08-26 | Politics makes strange bedfellows, but never stranger than when a sexy, savvy, African-American conservative Republican reluctantly falls for his Demo… |
| Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way | Hallie | 2014-03-17 | When your favorite toys need fixing, count on the best toy fixerupper in town – Doc McStuffins – to lend a hand and a hug! Join Doc, Lambie, Stuffy an… |
| Back to School Mom | Meghan Graham | 2015-02-14 | Mary Thomas, a free-spirited musician, has spent the past two decades traveling the world, but at age 41 she decides to go back to college and finish … |
| Norm of the North | Tamecia (voice) | 2016-01-14 | Polar bear Norm and his three Arctic lemming buddies are forced out into the world once their icy home begins melting and breaking apart. Landing in N… |
| Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Addie Collins | 2006-08-19 | In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds – sexual abuse, poverty and i… |
| The Trap | Mama Jay | 2019-04-01 | A man returns home to Atlanta to help and turn around his family’s struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe…. |
| A Sweet Christmas Romance | Loretta | 2019-11-10 | When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery is retiring and has started a c… |
| For the Love of Ruth | Naomi | 2015-05-09 | … |
| Comeback Dad | Malinda | 2014-06-21 | A man tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter…. |
| Christmas in Harmony | Mama | 2021-10-29 | Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of … |
| Love Kills | Sylvia Finkelstein | 1999-10-04 | A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire…. |
| Urban Legends: Final Cut | Reese | 2000-09-22 | The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country. At Alpine University, some… |
| Lottery Ticket | Grandma | 2010-08-20 | Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he’s holding a wi… |
| First Sunday | Sister Doris | 2008-01-11 | Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they… |
| Livin’ Large! | Nadine Biggs | 1991-09-20 | A young black reporter begins to lose his identity…. |
| Jumping the Broom | Mrs. Taylor | 2011-05-06 | Two very different families converge on Martha’s Vineyard one weekend for a wedding…. |
| Lover Girl | Leticia / ‘Coco’ | 1997-09-11 | Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene’s neighbor Marci tak… |
| Clover | Everleen | 1997-09-10 | … |
| Kingdom Come | Marguerite Slocumb | 2001-04-11 | When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a … |
| Freedom Song | Evelyn Walker | 2000-02-27 | Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the st… |
| Caged No More | Aggie | 2016-01-15 | Aggie, A 67 year-old Black Cajun, has just stepped into her worst nightmare. Her two granddaughters have disappeared, and the only clue she possesses … |
| The Sound and the Fury | Dilsey | 2015-10-23 | A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century…. |
| Naked | Carol | 2017-08-11 | Following a wild night out with his Best Man, Rob Anderson wakes up to find himself naked in an elevator on the morning of his wedding day and is forc… |
| Behind the Movement | Jo Ann Robinson | 2018-11-15 | Behind the Movement is a unique and fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boy… |
| Postmarked | Hattie | 2019-11-08 | One summer afternoon, a ten-year-old boy finds a forgotten trove of postcards. To solve their mystery, he journeys to their postmarked city in search … |
| Mack & Rita | Sharon | 2022-08-12 | A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self…. |
| Urban Legend | Reese Wilson | 1998-09-25 | A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends…. |
| Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Ruby Dandridge | 1999-08-21 | An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn’t let some stars in by the front door. Ye… |
| The Price of Kissing | Jackee | 1997-04-01 | Pauley Perrette plays Renee, a young woman discovering her own meaning of love. From childhood memories of her mother to her own experiences as a youn… |
| Down in the Delta | Zenia | 1998-12-25 | A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live … |
| A Very Larry Christmas | Mrs. Claus | 2013-12-31 | Larry is a good natured guy with a spotty work history. Santa picks Larry to fill in when he breaks his leg. Larry`s old boss and Santa`s PR assistant… |
| Always and Forever | Elda | 2020-11-20 | After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can’… |
| Jingle Belle | Emory Simons | 2018-11-25 | Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant… |
| The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special | Hallie | 2018-12-02 | When there are no presents under the tree, Doc suspects there’s something wrong at the North Pole and time travels to figure out what went wrong and s… |
| Urban Legend | Reese | The movie will center on a diverse cast of college students as they navigate a series of bizarre deaths that resemble urban legends linked to the dark… | |
| The Preacher’s Wife | Beverly | 1996-12-13 | Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived nei… |
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Miss Roberts | 2009-12-11 | Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange ta… |
| I Am Sam | Margaret Calgrove | 2001-12-28 | Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. … |
| Brett Gelman’s Dinner in America | Herself | 2016-07-01 | Brett Gelman invites four African-American panelists to discuss racism in the United States…. |
| Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror | 2019-02-07 | Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history… | |
| Anna to the Infinite Power | Mrs. Benson | 1983-01-12 | Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, sev… |
| Queen Bees | Sally | 2021-06-11 | Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques and flirta… |
| Class Act | Blade’s Mom | 1992-06-05 | Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the ot… |
| Khumba | Mama V (voice) | 2013-07-18 | A half-striped zebra is blamed for the drought and leaves his herd in search of his missing stripes. He is joined on his quest by an overprotective wi… |
| Best Actress | Connie Travers | 2000-03-18 | A Hollywood writer becomes embroiled while investigating into the lives of five fictitious actresses all nominated for the Academy Award for best actr… |
| No Regrets | Ms Carey | 2016-09-24 | This film is a romantic comedy about a stewardess (Calhoun), who after 12 years of dating (Joseph) as college sweethearts (along with several marriage… |
| Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs | 2002-02-14 | Book of Love delivers humor along with the mysteries of unrequited love and relationships gone bad. The film’s story line focuses on three men living,… | |
| A Family Reunion Christmas | Amelia ‘M’Dear’ McKellan | 2019-12-09 | M’Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson…. |
| Cougar Club | Dolly | 2007-01-01 | When Spence and Hogan graduate from college, life is bleak. They have to work for heinous divorce lawyers that torture them. Spence has a girlfriend f… |
| Don King: Only in America | Connie Harper | 1997-11-15 | A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager…. |
| Beverly Hills Chihuahua | Delta (voice) | 2008-10-03 | A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv’s niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her fri… |
| Sticky Fingers | Diane | 1988-05-06 | Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a … |
| Caged Fear | Judy | 1991-05-17 | After a jewelry theft Tommy Lane can hardly free. His girlfriend Kristen has less luck and is arrested. She’s sentenced to jail in an ill-reputed fema… |
| Stanley & Iris | Bertha | 1990-02-09 | An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili… |
| Jackie’s Back! | Snookie Tate (Jackie’s Childhood Friend) | 1999-06-14 | A mockumentary of Jackie Washington, a fictional pop diva and actress, played by Jenifer Lewis. Jackie tells the story of her rise to stardom and fall… |
| Little Nikita | Verna McLaughlin | 1988-03-17 | Roy Parmenter is an FBI agent in San Diego; 20 years ago his partner was killed by a Soviet spy, nicknamed Scuba, still at large. Scuba is now trying … |
| Hoodlum | Pigfoot Mary | 1997-08-27 | In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Har… |
| King’s Ransom | Miss Gladys | 2005-04-22 | Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife’s plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other p… |
| The Starling | Velma | 2021-09-17 | A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that’s taken over her garden — and a husband who’s struggling to find a way forwa… |
| Parent Trap III | Thelma | 1989-04-09 | When Jeff plans to marry again, his triplet daughters Megan, Lisa and Jessie try to bring him together with Susan…. |
| Death at a Funeral | Cynthia | 2010-04-15 | Aaron’s father’s funeral is today at the family home, and everything goes wrong: the funeral home delivers the wrong body, his cousin accidentally dru… |
| You’re Not You | Marilyn | 2014-10-10 | A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver…. |
| Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 | Delta (voice) | 2011-02-01 | Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challen… |
| Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend | Self | 2018-11-20 | This two and a half hour documentary takes a look at the making of the 1998 horror film Urban Legend…. |
| Welcome to Me | Barb Vaughn | 2015-05-01 | A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own ta… |
| What Women Want | Flo | 2000-12-15 | Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking… |
| Dreamgirls | Jazz Singer | 2006-12-25 | Three young women dream of becoming pop stars—and get their wish when they’re chosen to be backup singers for the legendary James ‘Thunder’ Early…. |
| Amos & Andrew | Ula | 1993-03-05 | When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After … |
| Sierra Burgess Is a Loser | Ms. Thomson | 2018-09-07 | A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win ov… |
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self | 2021-08-14 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who … |
| Crash | Shaniqua Johnson | 2005-05-06 | In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a… |
| Spring Breakdown | Dr. Marguerite | 2009-05-22 | Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Spring Break they never had…. |
| The American Clock | 1993-01-02 | Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market cra… | |
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