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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (11)

• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• 2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age — Self
• 2019Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• The Tamron Hall Show — Self - Guest
• 2018Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend — Self
• 2016Brett Gelman's Dinner in America — Herself
• 2009Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• Broadway: The Next Generation — Self