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Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 21, 1949
Place of Birth
Houston, Texas, USA
Also Known As
- لورتا دیواین
Loretta Devine
2.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
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0.0
Finding Faith
2025
7.4
Linda Lewin
Holidazed
2024
0.0
Joy Morris
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2024
6.6
Jill Manafort
Doctor Odyssey
2024
7.3
(voice)
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024
8.0
Miss Mimi
Tempted by Love
2024
0.0
Mrs. Big-Gal
Bull Street
2024
6.9
Gigi Young (voice)
Young Love
2023
0.0
Hallie (voice)
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
2023
6.6
Jeanette
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
Credits
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Finding Faith
2025
0.0
Holidazed
as Linda Lewin
2024
7.4
Lost & Found in Cleveland
as Joy Morris
2024
0.0
Doctor Odyssey
as Jill Manafort
2024
6.6
Everybody Still Hates Chris
as (voice)
2024
7.3
Tempted by Love
as Miss Mimi
2024
8.0
Bull Street
as Mrs. Big-Gal
2024
0.0
Young Love
as Gigi Young (voice)
2023
6.9
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
as Hallie (voice)
2023
0.0
A Snowy Day in Oakland
as Jeanette
2023
6.6
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
as Lorraine
2022
7.1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
as Irene (voice)
2022
6.8
Mack & Rita
as Sharon
2022
5.6
Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10!
as Hallie (voice)
2022
4.0
Christmas Déjà Vu
as Crystal
2021
5.0
Christmas in Harmony
as Mama
2021
5.0
The Starling
as Velma
2021
6.9
Teenage Euthanasia
2021
5.1
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
as Angela
2021
8.6
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
as Self
2021
0.0
Queen Bees
as Sally
2021
6.0
Always and Forever
as Elda
2020
5.7
Spell
as Eloise
2020
6.5
Connecting...
as Dayleen
2020
5.5
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2020
6.9
P-Valley
as Ernestine
2020
7.7
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Contestant / Fabulosity
2020
6.0
A Family Reunion Christmas
as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2019
5.9
A Sweet Christmas Romance
as Loretta
2019
6.9
Postmarked
as Hattie
2019
9.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
6.4
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
5.1
A Black Lady Sketch Show
as Marrier
2019
7.2
Family Reunion
as M'Dear
2019
8.1
The Trap
as Mama Jay
2019
4.9
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
as Self
2019
7.2
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
as Hallie (voice)
2018
5.0
Jingle Belle
as Emory Simons
2018
5.9
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
as Self
2018
7.0
Behind the Movement
as Jo Ann Robinson
2018
0.0
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
as Ms. Thomson
2018
6.3
Summer Camp Island
as Sea Cow (voice)
2018
7.7
Broadway: The Next Generation
as Self
2017
10.0
Naked
as Carol
2017
5.8
Dear White People
as Sorbet (voice)
2017
6.1
Chapter & Verse
as Miss Maddy
2017
7.3
No Regrets
as Ms. Carey
2016
7.1
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Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
as Herself
2016
3.5
Grandma's House
2016
4.5
Caged No More
as Aggie
2016
4.7
Norm of the North
as Tamecia (voice)
2016
4.6
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
2015
5.0
The Carmichael Show
as Cynthia Carmichael
2015
7.2
For the Love of Ruth
as Naomi
2015
4.0
Back to School Mom
as Meghan Graham
2015
5.3
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
2015
5.5
You're Not You
as Marilyn
2014
7.4
black-ish
as Lynette
2014
7.2
Welcome to Me
as Barb Vaughn
2014
5.8
Comeback Dad
as Malinda
2014
6.9
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
as Hallie
2014
5.0
Sirens
as Hank's Mother
2014
7.0
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A Very Larry Christmas
as Mrs. Claus
2013
2.0
Saving Westbrook High
as Doris
2013
6.0
The Doc Files
as Hallie (voice)
2013
2.0
Khumba
as Mama V (voice)
2013
6.0
In the Hive
as Mrs. Inez
2012
5.2
The Client List
as Georgia Cummings
2012
6.7
Doc McStuffins
as Nurse Hallie (voice)
2012
6.1
Doc McStuffins
as Hattie (voice)
2012
6.1
Politics of Love
as Shirlee Gupta
2011
3.3
State of Georgia
as Honey Dupree
2011
6.9
Jumping the Broom
as Mrs. Taylor
2011
5.9
Madea's Big Happy Family
as Shirley
2011
6.6
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
as Delta (voice)
2011
5.9
Shake It Up
as Marsha Sanders
2010
7.6
For Colored Girls
as Juanita / Green
2010
6.7
Lottery Ticket
as Grandma
2010
5.6
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
as Miss Roberts
2010
6.0
Death at a Funeral
as Cynthia
2010
5.9
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
as Self
2009
0.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Spring Breakdown
as Dr. Marguerite
2009
5.4
Glee
as Sister Mary Constance
2009
6.8
Party Down
as Diane Ellison
2009
7.5
RuPaul's Drag Race
as Self - Guest Judge
2009
7.5
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
as Delta (voice)
2008
5.4
Eli Stone
as Patti Dellacroix
2008
6.8
First Sunday
as Sister Doris
2008
5.7
This Christmas
as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
2007
6.5
Cougar Club
as Dolly
2007
3.8
Dreamgirls
as Jazz Singer
2006
6.7
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Addie Collins
2006
6.5
Dirty Laundry
as Evelyn
2006
6.2
Psych
as Melba Birdson
2006
7.9
Everybody Hates Chris
as Maxine
2005
8.0
Supernatural
as Missouri Moseley
2005
8.3
Crash
as Shaniqua Johnson
2005
7.2
King's Ransom
as Miss Gladys
2005
4.7
Grey's Anatomy
as Adele Webber
2005
8.2
Boston Legal
as Judge Victoria Thomson
2004
7.9
Woman Thou Art Loosed
as Cassey Jordan
2004
5.5
Cold Case
as Chandra Patterson (2009)
2003
7.8
Wild Card
as M. Pearl McGuire
2003
5.1
Half & Half
as Erika Duke
2002
8.3
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002
10.0
I Am Sam
as Margaret Calgrove
2001
7.6
Kingdom Come
as Marguerite Slocumb
2001
6.6
What Women Want
as Flo
2000
6.4
Boston Public
as Marla Hendricks
2000
7.6
Urban Legends: Final Cut
as Reese
2000
4.9
Girlfriends
2000
7.2
Strong Medicine
2000
7.1
Best Actress
as Connie Travers
2000
1.4
Freedom Song
as Evelyn Walker
2000
5.5
Punks
as Health Counselor
2000
5.0
Love Kills
as Sylvia Finkelstein
1999
2.0
Family Law
as Gloria Rivers
1999
8.2
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
as Ruby Dandridge
1999
6.6
Jackie's Back!
as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
1999
6.9
The Breaks
as Floria
1999
6.2
Funny Valentines
as Dearie B.
1999
7.2
The PJs
as Muriel Stubbs (voice)
1999
6.8
Down in the Delta
as Zenia
1998
6.4
Urban Legend
as Reese Wilson
1998
5.7
Don King: Only in America
as Connie Harper
1997
6.5
Lover Girl
as Leticia / 'Coco'
1997
5.3
Clover
as Everleen
1997
4.5
Ally McBeal
as Nora Mills
1997
6.6
Hoodlum
as Pigfoot Mary
1997
6.4
The Price of Kissing
as Jackee
1997
3.0
The Preacher's Wife
as Beverly
1996
5.8
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
as Miss Mary
1996
7.1
Promised Land
as Tonya Hawkins
1996
6.6
Moesha
1996
6.9
Waiting to Exhale
as Gloria
1995
6.3
Ned and Stacey
as Mrs. Duncan
1995
7.2
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Mother (voice)
1995
6.0
Touched by an Angel
as Tonya Hawkins
1994
7.2
Amos & Andrew
as Ula
1993
5.4
The American Clock
1993
6.5
Love & War
1992
6.2
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Out All Night
as Crystal
1992
8.5
Class Act
as Blade's Mom
1992
6.1
Livin' Large!
as Nadine Biggs
1991
6.0
Roc
1991
7.8
Roc
as Cynthia
1991
7.8
Caged Fear
as Judy
1991
3.8
The Colored Museum
as Janine
1991
0.0
Cop Rock
1990
4.0
Sugar and Spice
1990
6.0
Stanley & Iris
as Bertha
1990
6.5
Parent Trap III
as Thelma
1989
6.2
Murphy Brown
as Nurse Hawking
1988
6.5
Sticky Fingers
as Diane
1988
5.7
Little Nikita
as Verna McLaughlin
1988
6.0
The Murder of Mary Phagan
as Annie Maude Carter
1988
5.8
A Different World
as Stevie Rallen
1987
7.1
Anna to the Infinite Power
as Mrs. Benson
1983
5.2
Will
as Jean
1981
0.0
Great Performances
as Janine
1971
5.3
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Legally Mad
as Jeanette Harris
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Break the Cycle
N/A
0.0