Yvette Nicole Brown (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress and comedian perhaps best known for her role as Shirley Bennett on NBC's sitcom Community (2009-2015). She's also known for her roles as Angela Martin on Bounce's sitcom Act Your Age, Rosaleen in Disenchanted (2022), The Driver in Muppets Haunted Mansion, Sherilyn Thomas on the Disney+ series Big Shot, Aunt Sarah in the live movie version of Lady and the Tramp, Dani on the CBS sitcom reboot of The Odd Couple, Gray Sister #2 in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, Rhodesia in Repo Men, Dori in The Ugly Truth, Ms. Camwell in Hotel for Dogs, and Helen on Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh and its' subsequent TV movie Merry Christmas Drake and Josh. She has also had a recurring role on CBS's sitcom Mom and appeared in Avengers: Endgame, (500) Days of Summer, Tropic Thunder, Dreamgirls, and Little Black Book. She has voiced numerous characters including Mayor Gilmore in Pupstruction, KRS in My Dad the Bounty Hunter, Captain Tully in The Chicken Squad, Amanda Waller in DC Super Hero Girls series and subsequent animated shorts, Luna in Elena of Avalor series and movie, and Cookie in Hub Network's reboot of Pound Puppies.

Filmography

• Among Us — Orange (voice)
• Hollywood Arts — Helen
• 2026K-Pops! — Brenda
• Sofia the First: Royal Magic — Lady Saddlespur (voice)
• Adults — Mrs. Evans (voice)
• 2025Code 3 — Shanice
• 2025He Wasn't Man Enough — Candy
• Suits LA — Yvette Nicole Brown
• The Family Business: New Orleans — Monique
• 2025Zootopia 2 — EMT Otter / The Bearoness (voice)
• Good Times — Beverly (voice)
• 2024Inside Out 2 — Coach Roberts (voice)
• Matlock — Nadine
• 2024Vigilantes INC. - America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen — Narrator
• Act Your Age — Angela Martin
• Frasier — Monica
• Frog and Toad — Rabbit (voice)
• Krapopolis — Herophile (voice)
• Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur — President Brown (voice)
• My Dad the Bounty Hunter — KRS (voice)
• Pupstruction — Mayor Gilmore (voice)
• Shape Island — Narrator (voice)
• 2023Splinter — Chef
• Strange Planet — Lifegiver (voice)
• Alice's Wonderland Bakery — Mama Rabbit (voice)
• 2022DC League of Super-Pets — Patty (voice)
• 2022Disenchanted — Rosaleen
• 2022LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation — Colvett Valeria (voice)
• 2022Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience — Grande (voice)
• Slumberkins — Yak's Mother (voice)
• 2021Beebo Saves Christmas — Turbo (voice)
• Big Shot — Sherilyn Thomas
• 2021Broken Diamonds — Cookie
• Dogs in Space — Clawdia (voice)
• Home Economics — Donna
• 2021Muppets Haunted Mansion — The Driver
• The Chicken Squad — Captain Tully (voice)
• The Ghost and Molly McGee — Dianne (voice)
• The Upshaws — Joyce
• Central Park — Gina Tracker (voice), Bar Patron #2
• 2020Community Table Read — Shirley Bennett
• Crossing Swords — Sgt. Meghan (voice)
• I Can See Your Voice
• The Big Fib — Self - Host, Producer
• A Black Lady Sketch Show — Judge Anita Harper
• 2019Always a Bridesmaid — Pastor Althea Brody, Screenplay
• 2019Avengers: Endgame — S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent
• 2019Lady and the Tramp — Aunt Sarah
• 2019Modern/Love in 7 Short Films — Allison
• T.O.T.S. — Cora Beakman
• Weird City — Glail
• What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage
• 2018DC Super Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis — Principal Waller (voice)
• 2018LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High — Amanda Waller
• LEGO Marvel Super Heroes - Black Panther: Trouble in Wakanda — Okoye (voice)
• 2018LEGO Marvel Super Heroes: Black Panther - Trouble in Wakanda — Okoye (voice)
• LEGO Star Wars: All-Stars — Lt. Valeria (voice)
• 2018The Last Days of TJ Staggs — Executive
• 2017DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games — Principal Waller (voice)
• Dear White People — Evelyn Conners
• 2017Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins — Luna (voice)
• 2017LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Brain Drain — Amanda Waller (voice)
• 2017LEGO DC Super Hero Girls: Galactic Wonder — Amanda Waller
• Marvel's Spider-Man — Head Administrator (voice)
• 2017Smartass — Officer Neesy
• The Mayor — Dina Rose
• Will & Grace — Ru
• Bunnicula — Ms. Varney (voice)
• 2016DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year — Amanda Waller (voice)
• 2016DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High — Amanda Waller (voice)
• 2016Elena and the Secret of Avalor — Luna (voice)
• Elena of Avalor — Luna (voice)
• Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
• LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures — Lt. Valeria (voice), Lt. Valeria / Pilots (voice)
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! — Judge (voice)
• 2015Cuddle Party — Allison
• DC Super Hero Girls — Amanda Waller (voice)
• Dr. Ken — Amy
• New Looney Tunes — Rhoda Roundhouse (voice), Police Officer (voice)
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil — Brigid (voice)
• The Odd Couple — Dani
• 2014Advanced Television Production - 5 Days, 2 Scripts, No Sleep — Self, Thanks
• Benched — Donna
• BoJack Horseman — Pedestrian / Beyoncé (voice)
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — Boat Maria (voice)
• 2014Yellowbird — Ladybug (voice)
• Mom — Nora
• 2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Gray Sister #2
• Doc McStuffins — Tracy Triceratops (voice)
• Match Game
• The Soul Man — Robyn
• Last Man Standing — Movie-Goer
• Once Upon a Time — Ursula
• Hot in Cleveland — Lily
• Pound Puppies — Cookie (voice)
• Regular Show — The Seer (voice)
• 2010Repo Men — Rhodesia
• Rizzoli & Isles — U.S. Postal Inspector CJ Prescott
• Shake It Up — Madame Tiffany
• The Walking Dead — Outpost 22 (voice)
• Victorious — Helen Dubois
• 2009(500) Days of Summer — New Secretary
• Community — Shirley Bennett
• 2009Hotel for Dogs — Ms. Camwell
• 2009The Ugly Truth — Dori Coleman
• Kath & Kim — Clerk
• 2008Meet Dave — Old Navy Saleswoman
• 2008Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh — Helen
• 2008Tropic Thunder — Peck's Assistant - Peck's Office
• True Jackson, VP — Coral Barns
• American Body Shop
• Chuck — Buy More Employee
• Rules of Engagement — Mrs. Alberts
• 2007The Neighbor — Receptionist
• iCarly — Art Student
• 'Til Death — Roxie
• 2006Dreamgirls — Curtis' Secretary
• Pepper Dennis — Angela Howell
• Psych — Hazel Lazarus
• The Loop — Agent Isabelle
• American Dad! — Scientist (voice), Hair Salon Customer (voice), Announcer (voice)
• Criminal Minds — Sheila, Sheila Watkins
• Fat Actress — Woman at Restaurant
• Hot Properties
• 2005The Island — Harvest Nurse
• 2005The Kid & I — Bunny
• The Office — Paris
• The War at Home — Airport Security
• Boston Legal — Doris Thumper
• Drake & Josh — Helen
• Entourage — Daily Variety Agent
• House — Ellen Stambler
• 2004Little Black Book — Production Assistant
• The Big House
• That's So Raven — Monica
• Two and a Half Men — Mandy
• Do Over
• For the People — Server
• Half & Half — Ceci
• Curb Your Enthusiasm — Stewardess
• Girlfriends — Sherri Childs
• Malcolm in the Middle — Female Security Agent
• Family Guy — Black Sassy Nurse (voice), Black Woman (voice)
• That '70s Show — Sergeant Davis
• 7th Heaven — Leah Morris
• Untitled Community Movie — Shirley Bennett

Appearances as themselves (35)

• Celebrity Weakest Link — Self - Contestant
• 2025Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Block Party — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self
• 2024Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Back to School — Self
• 20222022 American Rescue Dog Show — Self - Judge
• Celebrity Jeopardy! — Self - Contestant
• 2022Disney's Summer Magic Quest — Self - Host
• Password — Self - Celebrity Guest
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• Celebrity Wheel of Fortune — Self - Contestant
• 2021Disney's Holiday Magic Quest — Self - Host
• 2020Don't Let the Pigeon Do Storytime — Self
• 2020The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — Self
• The Masked Singer — Self - Guest Panelist
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler — Self
• Cosplay Melee — Self - Host
• Steve — Self
• The Gong Show — Self - Judge
• Match Game — Self - Panelist
• The $100,000 Pyramid — Self
• To Tell the Truth — Self - Panelist
• Celebrity Family Feud — Self
• Celebrity Name Game — Self
• 2014Harmontown — Self
• Deal With It — Self
• Hollywood Game Night — Self
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars — Self - Guest Judge
• 2012Six Seasons and A Movie: A Community Art Show — Self
• Talking Dead — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The View — Self - Guest, Self - Guest Co-Host
• The Daily Show — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)