Loretta Devine

Actor Aug 21 (age 76) Houston, Texas, USA 1971–2026 (55 year career)

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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 …

Known For

Film

Crash

Shaniqua Johnson

Film

I Am Sam

Margaret Calgrove

Film

What Women Want

Flo

Film

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

Ms. Thomson

Film

You're Not You

Marilyn

Film

Dreamgirls

Jazz Singer

Film

Naked

Carol

Film

Urban Legend

Reese Wilson

Filmography

Acting (169)

Movies (108)

Three Colors: Pan-African

2026

as Nana

Lost & Found in Cleveland

2025

as Joy Morris

5.0

Deck the Hallways

2025

as Agnes

Finding Faith

2025

10.0

The Christmas Showdown

2025

as Hen

5.0

Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love

2024

as Miss Mimi

8.8

Bull Street

2024

as Mrs. Big-Gal

A Snowy Day in Oakland

2023

as Jeanette

6.8

Lucille

2023

as Lucille

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

as Irene (voice)

Mack & Rita

as Sharon

All I Didn't Want for Christmas

2022

as Lorraine

6.4

Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!

as Hallie (voice)

Christmas in Harmony

as Mama

Christmas Déjà Vu

as Crystal

The Starling

as Velma

Queen Bees

as Sally

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

2021

as Self

Spell

as Eloise

Always and Forever

as Elda

The Trap

as Mama Jay

A Sweet Christmas Romance

as Loretta

Postmarked

as Hattie

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

2019

as Self

6.8

A Family Reunion Christmas

2019

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

5.9

Behind the Movement

2018

as Jo Ann Robinson

Jingle Belle

2018

as Emory Simons

5.9

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

2018

as Ms. Thomson

6.3

The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special

2018

as Hallie (voice)

5.0

Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend

as Self

Naked

as Carol

Broadway: The Next Generation

2017

as Self

Chapter & Verse

as Miss Maddy

Norm of the North

as Tamecia (voice)

Caged No More

as Aggie

Grandma's House

No Regrets

as Ms. Carey

Brett Gelman's Dinner in America

as Herself

Welcome to Me

as Barb Vaughn

The Sound and the Fury

2015

as Dilsey

4.9

Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie

2015

as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)

For the Love of Ruth

as Naomi

Back to School Mom

as Meghan Graham

You're Not You

as Marilyn

Comeback Dad

as Malinda

A Very Larry Christmas

2014

as Mrs. Claus

2.0

Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way

as Hallie

Khumba

as Mama V (voice)

Saving Westbrook High

as Doris

In the Hive

as Mrs. Inez

Madea's Big Happy Family

as Shirley

Jumping the Broom

as Mrs. Taylor

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2

as Delta (voice)

Politics of Love

as Shirlee Gupta

Death at a Funeral

as Cynthia

Lottery Ticket

as Grandma

For Colored Girls

as Juanita / Green

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2010

as Miss Roberts

6.1

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

Spring Breakdown

as Dr. Marguerite

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

2009

as Self

First Sunday

2008

as Sister Doris

5.7

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

2008

as Delta (voice)

5.4

This Christmas

2007

as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield

Cougar Club

as Dolly

Dreamgirls

as Jazz Singer

Dirty Laundry

as Evelyn

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

as Addie Collins

Crash

as Shaniqua Johnson

King's Ransom

as Miss Gladys

Woman Thou Art Loosed

2004

as Cassey Jordan

5.3

Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs

I Am Sam

as Margaret Calgrove

Kingdom Come

as Marguerite Slocumb

6.5

What Women Want

2000

as Flo

6.4

Urban Legends: Final Cut

as Reese

Best Actress

as Connie Travers

Punks

as Health Counselor

Freedom Song

as Evelyn Walker

Love Kills

as Sylvia Finkelstein

2.0

Funny Valentines

1999

as Dearie B.

7.2

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

1999

as Ruby Dandridge

6.4

Jackie's Back!

1999

as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)

The Breaks

as Floria

Urban Legend

as Reese Wilson

Down in the Delta

as Zenia

Hoodlum

as Pigfoot Mary

Lover Girl

as Leticia / 'Coco'

Clover

as Everleen

Don King: Only in America

as Connie Harper

The Price of Kissing

as Jackee

The Preacher's Wife

as Beverly

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

as Miss Mary

Waiting to Exhale

as Gloria

Amos & Andrew

as Ula

The American Clock

Class Act

as Blade's Mom

The Colored Museum

as Janine

Caged Fear

as Judy

Livin' Large!

as Nadine Biggs

Stanley & Iris

as Bertha

Parent Trap III

as Thelma

Little Nikita

as Verna McLaughlin

Sticky Fingers

as Diane

A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

Anna to the Infinite Power

1983

as Mrs. Benson

5.2

Will

1981

as Jean

Break the Cycle

Television (61)

Doctor Odyssey

2024

as Jill Manafort

6.4

Everybody Still Hates Chris

as (voice)

Holidazed

as Linda Lewin

Young Love

as Gigi Young (voice)

6.5

Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!

2023

as Hallie (voice)

Teenage Euthanasia

2021

5.2

Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem

as Angela

P-Valley

as Ernestine

Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race

2020

as Fabulosity - Contestant

5.8

GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event

2020

as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan

6.9

Connecting...

2020

as Dayleen

5.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show

as Self

Tamron Hall

as Self - Guest

Family Reunion

as M'Dear

A Black Lady Sketch Show

as Marrier

Summer Camp Island

as Sea Cow (voice)

Dear White People

as Sorbet (voice)

The Carmichael Show

as Cynthia Carmichael

black-ish

as Lynette

Sirens

as Hank's Mother

The Doc Files

as Hallie (voice)

Doc McStuffins

as Nurse Hallie (voice)

Doc McStuffins

as Hattie (voice)

The Client List

as Georgia Cummings

The Soul Man

as Della Ballentine

State of Georgia

as Honey Dupree

Shake It Up

as Marsha Sanders

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009

as Self - Guest

5.1

Glee

2009

as Sister Mary Constance

6.8

RuPaul's Drag Race

2009

as Self - Guest Judge

Party Down

as Diane Ellison

Eli Stone

as Patti Dellacroix

Psych

as Melba Birdson

Grey's Anatomy

as Adele Webber

Supernatural

as Missouri Moseley

Everybody Hates Chris

2005

as Maxine

8.1

Boston Legal

2004

as Annabelle Carruthers

7.9

Cold Case

2003

as Chandra Patterson (2009)

Wild Card

as M. Pearl McGuire

Half & Half

as Erika Duke

Girlfriends

as Judge Vashti Jackson

Strong Medicine

Boston Public

as Marla Hendricks

Family Law

as Gloria Rivers

The PJs

as Muriel Stubbs (voice)

Ally McBeal

as Nora Mills

Moesha

as Steph

Promised Land

as Tonya Hawkins

Ned & Stacey

as Mrs. Duncan

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

as Mother (voice)

Touched by an Angel

as Tonya Hawkins

Love & War

Out All Night

as Crystal

Roc

as Cynthia

Cop Rock

Sugar and Spice

Murphy Brown

as Nurse Hawking

The Murder of Mary Phagan

1988

as Annie Maude Carter

A Different World

as Stevie Rallen

Great Performances

as Janine

Legally Mad

as Jeanette Harris