Vernee Watson

Acting

Born September 28, 1949, New York City, New York, USA

Vernee Watson-Johnson (born September 28, 1954) in North Trenton, New Jersey is an American television actress who has had a forty year career as a character actress in the movies and on television with 284 credits as of August, 2013 including a regular role on the sitcom "Carter Country" and six episodes on "Suit Up". Her roles often are playing doctors, nurses and judges. She has appeared four times on The Big Bang Theory as a nurse named Althea. She appeared in both the pilot and the original unaired pilot. In May 2005, she testified on behalf of the defense in Michael Jackson's trial on charges of child molestation.

Filmography

• 2026Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence
• The Four Seasons — Beverly
• Matlock — Celeste Carlisle
• WondLa — Ol' Crusty (voice)
• Shrinking — Phyllis
• Bel-Air — Janice
• Bob Hearts Abishola — Gloria
• 2019Clemency — Mrs. Collins
• 2019The Mandela Effect — Nadine
• Craig of the Creek — Evelyn (voice)
• 2018Home by Spring — Mrs. Wilson
• The Resident — Mary Phillips
• Young Sheldon — Nurse Robinson
• Rush Hour — Grandma
• School of Rock — Mrs. Calpakis
• 2015A Man Called Jon — Helen Black
• Fresh Off the Boat — Mrs. Parker
• Grace and Frankie — Doreen
• 2015How Not to Propose — Patty
• Superstore — Lillian
• The Odd Couple — Frannie
• 2014Nocturnal Agony — Lois
• Selfie — Denise
• 2013Highland Park — May
• Ironside — Lillian Wade
• Animal Practice — Evelyn
• Ben and Kate — Gladys
• Key & Peele — Johnson Family Member
• A.N.T. Farm — Grammy
• Jessie — Mrs. Harris
• Suburgatory — Fatima
• Teen Wolf — Eichen House Attendant
• The Exes — Wendy
• Good Luck Charlie — Principal Hibbert
• Melissa & Joey — Ms. Lunt
• Archer — Cop (voice)
• Castle — Mercy LaGrande / Mercedes King
• Southland — Mrs. Johnson
• The Middle — Cashier
• 2008Good Behavior — Judge Wales(as Vernee Watson-Johnson)
• Raising the Bar — Judge Edith Washington
• The Mentalist — Therapist
• 2007Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo — (voice)
• 2007Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 2 : Le fantôme de la télé — (voice)
• The Big Bang Theory — Althea
• 2007The TV Set — Barbara
• Dexter — Doakes' Mother
• 2006Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties — Tourist #2
• Shark — Judge Miriam Keller
• Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Zelda
• 2006The Ant Bully — Head Nurse (voice)
• 2006The Celestine Prophecy — Principal
• Close to Home — Judge Tibbs
• Criminal Minds — Maxine Hightower
• Eyes — Anna Santiago
• Ghost Whisperer — Traci Cotter
• The Boondocks — Lorna Ray Freeman (voice)
• 2005The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
• 2004Admissions — Stanford Interviewer
• 2004Batman Beyond: School Days and Spellbound — Lorraine Tate (voice)
• 2004Christmas with the Kranks — Dox
• Desperate Housewives — ER Doctor
• House — Nurse Smits
• Jack & Bobby
• Eve — Laverna
• NCIS — Miss Helen Frimkes
• The Lyon's Den
• Two and a Half Men — Karen, Nurse, Nurse Phyllis, Nurse Lorna
• 2002Antwone Fisher — Aunt Annette
• 2002Home Room — Duty Nurse
• MDs — ER Admit Clerk #1
• 2002No Turning Back
• Presidio Med — Mrs. Redmond
• Without a Trace — Eye Witness
• The Bernie Mac Show — Aunt Sis
• The Guardian — Ella Kurtz
• 2000Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker — Ms. Carr (voice)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Manager
• Malcolm in the Middle — Gloria
• Soul Food — Cassandra DeLeon
• Static Shock — Mrs. Watkins (voice)
• That's Life
• The District — Lenora Simms
• 2000The Kid — Newsstand Cashier
• Batman Beyond — Lorraine Tate (voice)
• Judging Amy — Lorraine Edwards
• The West Wing — Nurse
• Martial Law — Lynn Meadows
• Dharma & Greg — Ms. Valko
• Profiler — Internal Affairs Agent, Linda Anderson
• Suddenly Susan — Karen
• Superman: The Animated Series — Female Worker / Councilwoman (voice), Female Neighbor (voice)
• 1996Superman: The Last Son of Krypton — Female Worker / Councilwoman (voice)
• The Steve Harvey Show — Glenda Burke
• JAG — Annette Dunwoody, Mrs. Drabowski
• 1994Angie — ICU Desk Nurse
• ER — April Wilson
• Party of Five — Officer Windlan
• Sister, Sister — Patrice
• Animaniacs — Robin (voice)
• 1993Batman: Mask of the Phantasm — Additional Voices (voice)
• Grace Under Fire
• The X-Files — Nurse Whitney Edwards
• Batman: The Animated Series — Doctor (voice), Dana Blessing (voice)
• 1992Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder — Esther Wiggins
• 1992Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street — Esther Wiggins
• Love & War
• Baby Talk — Danielle Craig (Voice)
• 1991Caged Fear — Y-Vonne
• 1991Hell Hath No Fury — Tyleen
• Roc — Angela Burke
• 1991Showdown in Little Tokyo — Nonnie Russell - Coroner
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers — Judge (voice)
• Over My Dead Body
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — Vy Smith
• Empty Nest
• Murphy Brown — Secretary #17
• TV 101 — Mrs. Hiekkila
• A Different World — Carla Meyers
• 1987G.I. Joe: The Movie — Scientist (voice)
• Married... with Children — Renee
• L.A. Law — Wilma Russ
• Foley Square — Denise Willums (
• Punky Brewster
• The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show — Sally (voice)
• American Playhouse — Secretary
• 1982Working — Secretary
• 1981All Night Long — Emily
• Hill Street Blues
• 1981The Violation of Sarah McDavid — Kip Leslie
• Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels — Dee Dee Skyes (voice)
• 1979Love's Savage Fury — Jewel
• 1978Death Drug — Carolyn (as Verne Watson)
• Vega$
• Carter Country — Lucille Banks
• 1977Green Eyes — Rosalie Dubeck
• Scooby's All-Stars — Dee Dee Skyes (voice)
• The Love Boat — Stephanie Hayden, Ellen Garner, Alita Daniels
• 1976Norman... Is That You? — Melody
• 1976The Boy in the Plastic Bubble — Gwen
• What's Happening!! — Judy Crane
• The Jeffersons
• Welcome Back, Kotter
• Good Times
• That's My Mama
• 1972Trick Baby — Cleo Howard
• You Look Familiar: Vernée Watson — self, Executive Producer