Loretta Devine
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 21, 1949 (age 77)
- Place of birth
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Credits
- 172
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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Known for
Filmography
Forever, This Ring
2026Movie
Three Colors: Pan-African
2026Movie
Nana
M.I.A.
2026TV
Aunt Judith
Deck the Hallways
2025Movie
Agnes
The Christmas Showdown
2025Movie
Hen
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025Movie
Joy Morris
Finding Faith
2025Movie
Helen
Holidazed
2024TV
Linda Lewin
Doctor Odyssey
2024TV
Jill Manafort
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024TV
(voice)
Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love
2024Movie
Miss Mimi
Bull Street
2024Movie
Mrs. Big-Gal
Lucille
2023Movie
Lucille
Young Love
2023TV
Gigi Young (voice)
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
2023TV
Hallie (voice)
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023Movie
Jeanette
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2022Movie
Lorraine
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022Movie
Irene (voice)
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022TV
Self - Guest
Mack & Rita
2022Movie
Sharon
A Doutora Faz 10 Anos
2022Movie
Hallie (voice)
Christmas Déjà Vu
2021Movie
Crystal
Christmas in Harmony
2021Movie
Mama
The Starling
2021Movie
Velma
Teenage Euthanasia
2021TV
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
2021TV
Angela
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021Movie
Self
Queen Bees
2021Movie
Sally
Always and Forever
2020Movie
Elda
Spell
2020Movie
Eloise
Connecting...
2020TV
Dayleen
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
2020TV
Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
P-Valley
2020TV
Ernestine
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
2020TV
Fabulosity - Contestant
A Family Reunion Christmas
2019Movie
Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
A Sweet Christmas Romance
2019Movie
Loretta
Postmarked
2019Movie
Hattie
The Tamron Hall Show
2019TV
Self - Guest
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019TV
Self
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019TV
Marrier
Family Reunion
2019TV
M'Dear
The Trap
2019Movie
Mama Jay
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019Movie
Self
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
2018Movie
Hallie (voice)
Jingle Belle
2018Movie
Emory Simons
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2018Movie
Self
Behind the Movement
2018Movie
Jo Ann Robinson
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018Movie
Ms. Thomson
Summer Camp Island
2018TV
Sea Cow (voice)
Violets
2017Movie
Marcy
Naked
2017Movie
Carol
Dear White People
2017TV
Sorbet (voice)
Chapter & Verse
2017Movie
Miss Maddy
No Regrets
2016Movie
Ms. Carey
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
2016Movie
Herself
Grandma's House
2016Movie
Caged No More
2016Movie
Aggie
Norm of the North
2016Movie
Tamecia (voice)
The Sound and the Fury
2015Movie
Dilsey
The Carmichael Show
2015TV
Cynthia Carmichael
For the Love of Ruth
2015Movie
Naomi
Welcome to Me
2015Movie
Barb Vaughn
Back to School Mom
2015Movie
Meghan Graham
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
2015Movie
Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
A Very Larry Christmas
2014Movie
Mrs. Claus
You're Not You
2014Movie
Marilyn
black-ish
2014TV
Lynette
Comeback Dad
2014Movie
Malinda
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
2014Movie
Hallie
Sirens
2014TV
Hank's Mother
Saving Westbrook High
2013Movie
Doris
The Doc Files
2013TV
Hallie (voice)
Khumba
2013Movie
Mama V (voice)
In the Hive
2012Movie
Mrs. Inez
The Soul Man
2012TV
Della Ballentine
The Client List
2012TV
Georgia Cummings
Doc McStuffins
2012TV
Nurse Hallie (voice), Hattie (voice)
Politics of Love
2011Movie
Shirlee Gupta
State of Georgia
2011TV
Honey Dupree
Jumping the Broom
2011Movie
Mrs. Taylor
Madea's Big Happy Family
2011Movie
Shirley
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011Movie
Delta (voice)
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2010Movie
Shake It Up
2010TV
Marsha Sanders
For Colored Girls
2010Movie
Juanita / Green
Lottery Ticket
2010Movie
Grandma
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010Movie
Miss Roberts
Death at a Funeral
2010Movie
Cynthia
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009Movie
Self
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009TV
Self - Guest
Spring Breakdown
2009Movie
Dr. Marguerite
Glee
2009TV
Sister Mary Constance
Party Down
2009TV
Diane Ellison
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009TV
Self - Guest Judge
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008Movie
Delta (voice)
Eli Stone
2008TV
Patti Dellacroix
First Sunday
2008Movie
Sister Doris
This Christmas
2007Movie
Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
Cougar Club
2007Movie
Dolly
Dreamgirls
2006Movie
Jazz Singer
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006Movie
Addie Collins
Dirty Laundry
2006Movie
Evelyn
Psych
2006TV
Melba Birdson
Everybody Hates Chris
2005TV
Maxine
Supernatural
2005TV
Missouri Moseley
Crash
2005Movie
Shaniqua Johnson
King's Ransom
2005Movie
Miss Gladys
Grey's Anatomy
2005TV
Adele Webber
Boston Legal
2004TV
Judge Victoria Thomson, Annabelle Carruthers
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004Movie
Cassey Jordan
Cold Case
2003TV
Chandra Patterson (2009)
Wild Card
2003TV
M. Pearl McGuire
Half & Half
2002TV
Erika Duke
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002Movie
I Am Sam
2001Movie
Margaret Calgrove
Kingdom Come
2001Movie
Marguerite Slocumb
What Women Want
2000Movie
Flo
Boston Public
2000TV
Marla Hendricks
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000Movie
Reese
Girlfriends
2000TV
Judge Vashti Jackson
Strong Medicine
2000TV
Best Actress
2000Movie
Connie Travers
Freedom Song
2000Movie
Evelyn Walker
Punks
2000Movie
Health Counselor
Love Kills
1999Movie
Sylvia Finkelstein
Family Law
1999TV
Gloria Rivers
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999Movie
Ruby Dandridge
Jackie's Back!
1999Movie
Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
The Breaks
1999Movie
Floria
Funny Valentines
1999Movie
Dearie B.
The PJs
1999TV
Muriel Stubbs (voice)
Down in the Delta
1998Movie
Zenia
Urban Legend
1998Movie
Reese Wilson
Don King: Only in America
1997Movie
Connie Harper
Lover Girl
1997Movie
Leticia / 'Coco'
Clover
1997Movie
Everleen
Ally McBeal
1997TV
Nora Mills
Hoodlum
1997Movie
Pigfoot Mary
The Price of Kissing
1997Movie
Jackee
The Preacher's Wife
1996Movie
Beverly
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996Movie
Miss Mary
Promised Land
1996TV
Tonya Hawkins
Moesha
1996TV
Steph
Waiting to Exhale
1995Movie
Gloria
Ned & Stacey
1995TV
Mrs. Duncan
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995TV
Mother (voice)
Touched by an Angel
1994TV
Tonya Hawkins
Amos & Andrew
1993Movie
Ula
The American Clock
1993Movie
Love & War
1992TV
Out All Night
1992TV
Crystal
Class Act
1992Movie
Blade's Mom
Livin' Large!
1991Movie
Nadine Biggs
Roc
1991TV
Cynthia
Caged Fear
1991Movie
Judy
The Colored Museum
1991Movie
Janine
Cop Rock
1990TV
Sugar and Spice
1990TV
Stanley & Iris
1990Movie
Bertha
Parent Trap III
1989Movie
Thelma
Murphy Brown
1988TV
Nurse Hawking
Sticky Fingers
1988Movie
Diane
Little Nikita
1988Movie
Verna McLaughlin
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988TV
Annie Maude Carter
A Different World
1987TV
Stevie Rallen
Anna to the Infinite Power
1983Movie
Mrs. Benson
Will
1981Movie
Jean
Great Performances
1971TV
Janine
Legally Mad
TV
Jeanette Harris
Broadway: The Next Generation
Movie
Self
That's Her
Movie
Break the Cycle
Movie