Salli Elise Richardson-Whitfield (born November 23, 1967) is an American television and film actress. She is known for her role as Dr. Allison Blake on the sci-fi TV series Eureka and her voice acting as Elisa Maza on the Disney animated series Gargoyles. She also appeared in the 2007 film I Am Legend alongside actor Will Smith. Her acting credits include: A Low Down Dirty Shame, Posse, and Antwone Fisher. She has guest-starred in numerous television shows, such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Silk Stalkings, New York Undercover, The Pretender and Secret Agent Man. Richardson had a recurring role as "Kim" on the show Mercy Point and as "Nancy Adams" on Rude Awakening. She played "Viveca Foster" on the television drama Family Law. On September 8, 2002, she married long-time boyfriend and fellow actor Dondre Whitfield. She and Whitfield have one daughter, Parker Richardson-Whitfield and one son, Dre Terrell Whitfield.

Filmography

• Task — Deputy D.A. Anne Pressman, Executive Producer, Director
• The Gilded Age — Executive Producer, Director
• Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty — Director, Executive Producer
• The Wheel of Time — Director
• Doom Patrol — Director
• Pearson — Director
• Reprisal — Director
• See — Director
• Treadstone — Director
• All American — Director
• Altered Carbon — Commission Leader, Director
• Black Lightning — Rebecca Montez, Director
• Chilling Adventures of Sabrina — Director
• Love Is___ — Director
• American Gods — Director
• Dear White People — Director
• I'm Dying Up Here — Director
• Marvel's The Punisher — Director
• Lethal Weapon — Director
• Marvel's Luke Cage — Director
• Queen Sugar — Director
• Shadowhunters — Director
• Underground — Director
• 2015Playin' for Love — Talisa McCoy
• Rosewood — Dr. Aubrey Joseph
• Stitchers — Maggie Baptiste, Director
• The Magicians — Director
• 2015The Sin Seer — Nia
• black-ish — Director
• Being Mary Jane — Valerie, Valerie (voice)
• Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — Director
• 2013Saving Westbrook High — Christine
• House of Lies — Sandra Joy
• Scandal — Director
• The Finder — Athena Brookes
• The Newsroom — Jane Barrow
• 2012We the Party — Principal Reynolds
• 2010I Will Follow — Maye
• 2009Black Dynamite — Gloria
• Castle — Elizabeth Weston
• 2009Pastor Brown — Jessica 'Jesse' Brown, Producer
• 2007I Am Legend — Zoe Neville
• Eureka — Allison Blake, Director
• Bones — Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Kurland
• Criminal Minds — Tamara Barnes
• The War at Home — Vanessa
• 2004Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid — Gail Stern
• House — Sharon
• Second Time Around — Amanda
• 2003Biker Boyz — Half & Half
• Missing — Kelly
• NCIS — Carrie Clark
• 2002Antwone Fisher — Berta Davenport
• 2002Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs — Karen
• CSI: Miami — Laura
• Secret Agent Man — Rachel
• Family Law — Viveca Foster
• 1998Butter — Blusette Ford
• Mercy Point — Lt. Salisaw
• Rude Awakening — Nancy Adams
• Between Brothers — Vanessa
• Stargate SG-1 — Drey'auc
• True Women — Martha
• 1996Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored — Miss Alice
• 1996Soul of the Game — Lahoma
• 1996The Great White Hype — Bambi
• The Jamie Foxx Show — Camille Turner
• The Pretender — Cynthia Sloan
• 1995Gargoyles the Movie: The Heroes Awaken — Elisa Maza (voice)
• 1994A Low Down Dirty Shame — Angela
• Gargoyles — Elisa Maza (voice)
• 1994I Spy Returns — Nicole Scott
• 1994Lily in Winter — Ada Covington
• New York Undercover — Tammy Barrett
• 1994Sioux City — Jolene Buckley
• NYPD Blue — Bobbi Kingston
• 1993Posse — Lana
• Space Rangers
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — Fenna / Nidell
• 1992How U Like Me Now — Valerie
• 1992Mo' Money — Pretty Customer
• 1992Prelude to a Kiss — Bridesmaid #2
• Roc — Diane Hubbard
• Silk Stalkings — Shelley
• 1991Up Against the Wall — Denise

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2015Light Girls — Self
• Real Husbands of Hollywood — Herself
• 2009Good Hair — Self