Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder (born December 25, 1952), known professionally as CCH Pounder, is a Guyanese-American film and television actress. She's known for her TV roles as medical examiner Dr. Loretta Wade on the series NCIS: New Orleans (2014-2021), District Attorney Tyne Patterson on Sons of Anarchy (2013–2014), Irene Frederic on Warehouse 13 (2009–2014), Captain Claudette Wyms on the FX series The Shield (2002–2008), and Dr. Angela Hicks on the medical drama series ER (1994–1997). She's known for her film roles as Mo'at in Avatar and Avatar: The Way of Water, Dorothea in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Sister Abigail in Orphan, Detective Margie Francis in End of Days, Hollis Miller in Face/Off, Victoria Hendrix in Sliver, Dr. Garvey in Benny & Joon, Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Peaches Altamont in Prizzi's Honor. She is also the voice of Amanda Waller in the animated show Justice League Unlimited (2004–2006), a role that she has reprised in later DC Comics media. She has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in The X-Files, ER, The Shield, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Filmography

• 2031Avatar 5 — Mo'at
• 2029Avatar 4 — Mo'at
• Cape Fear — Noa Toussaint
• The Terror: Devil in Silver — Miss Chris
• 2025Avatar: Fire and Ash — Mo'at
• 2025The Clock — Elle Rivers
• 2025The Naked Gun — Chief Davis
• 3 Body Problem — Lilian Joseph
• Full Circle — Savitri Mahabir
• 2023Rustin — Dr. Anna Hedgeman
• 2022Avatar: The Way of Water — Mo'at
• 2019Godzilla: King of the Monsters — Senator Williams
• The Good Fight — Vinetta Clark
• 2016When I Was Young I Said I Would Be Happy — Narrator (voice)
• Chicago Med — Dr. Eleanor Hess
• 2014Batman: Assault on Arkham — Amanda Waller (voice)
• NCIS: New Orleans — Loretta Wade
• Beware the Batman — Mayor Marion Grange (voice)
• 2013The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones — Dorothea
• 2012Home Again — Dulsay Mooreland
• Perception — FBI Psychiatrist
• Revenge — Warden Sharon Stiles
• 2010My Girlfriend's Back — Constance
• Archer — Claudette Kane (voice)
• 2009Avatar — Mo'at
• Brothers — Adele Trainor
• 2009Orphan — Sister Abigail
• 2009Superman/Batman: Public Enemies — Amanda Waller (voice)
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency — Andrea Curtin
• Warehouse 13 — Irene Frederic
• 2008Breaking the Maya Code — Narrator (voice)
• 2008Rain — Ms. Adams
• Sons of Anarchy — Tyne Patterson
• 2008The Tower — Evie
• The Wendy Williams Show
• Numb3rs — Lieutenant Lee Havercamp
• Justice League Unlimited — Amanda Waller (voice), Amanda Waller / Juice (voice)
• 2004Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story — Winnie Mandela
• NCIS — Loretta Wade
• 2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
• For the People — Millie Towne
• The Shield — Claudette Wyms
• 2001Boycott — Jo Ann Robinson
• 2001Things Behind the Sun — Judge
• 2000Cora Unashamed — Ma Jenkins
• 2000Disappearing Acts — Mrs. Swift
• Girlfriends — Dr. Myers
• Jackie Chan Adventures — Miss Kimber (voice)
• Static Shock — Mayor (voice)
• Strong Medicine — Libby Bell
• The District — Eilen Carmicheal
• 1999A Touch of Hope — Lily Keyes
• Batman Beyond — Anchor Woman (voice)
• 1999Batman Beyond: The Movie — Virtual News Anchor #1 (voice)
• Detention — Miss Powers (voice)
• 1999End of Days — Detective Margie Francis
• 1999Funny Valentines — Ethel B.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Carolyn Maddox
• 1999NetForce — Sandra Knight
• Netforce — Sandra Knight
• Rocket Power
• 1999The Big Day — Pearl
• The West Wing — Deborah O'Leary
• 1998Final Justice — Danielle Kline
• 1998Little Girl Fly Away — Dr. Geddes
• 1998Race — Lucinda Davis
• Rude Awakening — Stacey
• 1997Face/Off — Hollis Miller
• House of Frankenstein — Dr. Shauna Kendall
• The Practice — Helaine Washington
• 1997Things That Go Bump — Harriet Napolean
• 1996Aladdin and the King of Thieves — Oracle (voice)
• 1996All She Ever Wanted — Marilyn
• 1996If These Walls Could Talk — Jenny Ford
• Millennium — Cheryl Andrews
• 1995Jack Reed: One of Our Own — Mrs. Harris
• 1995Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight — Irene
• The Outer Limits — The Stranger
• 1995White Dwarf — Nurse Shabana
• 1995Zooman — Ash
• Birdland — Nurse Lucy
• ER — Angela Hicks
• Gargoyles — Desdemona (voice), Coldfire (voice)
• South Central
• 1993Benny & Joon — Dr. Garvey
• 1993For Their Own Good — Naomi Brinker
• 1993Lifepod — Mayvene
• Return to Lonesome Dove — Sara Pickett
• 1993RoboCop 3 — Bertha
• 1993Sliver — Victoria Hendrix
• 1993The Disappearance of Christina — Detective Davis
• 1993The Ernest Green Story — Daisy Bates
• The X-Files — Agent Lucy Kazdin
• 1992The Importance of Being Earnest — Miss Prism
• 1990Common Ground — Rachel Twymon
• 1990Murder in Mississippi — Fannie Lee Chaney
• 1990Postcards from the Edge — Julie Marsden
• 1990Psycho IV: The Beginning — Fran Ambrose
• 1989No Place Like Home — Prue
• Quantum Leap — Mama Harper
• 1989Third Degree Burn — Julie Cartwright (as C.C.H. Pounder)
• 1988Question of Faith — Roberta
• 1988Run Till You Fall — Janice
• 1987Bagdad Cafe — Brenda
• Women in Prison — Dawn Murphy
• 1986As Summers Die — Priscilla
• If Tomorrow Comes — Ernestine Littlechap
• L.A. Law — Judge Roseann Robin
• 1986Resting Place — Ada Johnson
• 1985Prizzi's Honor — Peaches Altamont
• The Atlanta Child Murders — Venus Taylor
• 1984Booker — Jane
• 1984Go Tell It on the Mountain — Deborah
• The Cosby Show — Clair's friend
• WonderWorks — Jane
• American Playhouse — Deborah
• Cagney & Lacey — Timmons
• 1982I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can — Anne
• Hill Street Blues
• 1980Union City — Mother
• 1979All That Jazz — Nurse Blake
• 1979Coriolanus — Valeria
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Ada

Appearances as themselves (6)

• 2023Inside Pandora's Box — Self
• 2022Betye Saar: Ready to Be a Warrior — Self
• 2006The Shield: Wrap Day — Self
• 1997Black Hollywood — Self
• 1995Secrets of the X-Files — Self
• Miss USA — Self - Judge