Tasha Smith (born February 28, 1971) is an American actress and director. She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series Boston Common (1996–97). In film, Smith has appeared in The Whole Ten Yards (2004), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), The Longshots (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), Jumping the Broom (2011), Addicted (2014) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? (2007), its sequel Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and on the television series based on the movies, For Better or Worse (2011–2017). From 2015 to 2020, she had a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series Empire.

Filmography

• 2026Give Me Some Sugah — Director
• 2026Why Did I Get Married Again? — Angela
• 2025Desire: A Temptations Story — Kendra
• 2025Escape Room
• 2025Twinless — Charlotte
• 2024Bad Boys: Ride or Die — Theresa
• 2024The Deliverance — Pastor Powell
• Survival of the Thickest — Marley, Director
• BMF — Director, Executive Producer
• Mayor of Kingstown — Director
• Our Kind of People — Director
• Big Sky — Director
• P-Valley — Director
• 2019Dolemite Is My Name — Jimmy's Wife
• First Wives Club — Savannah
• 2019The One You Never Forget — Mom
• 9-1-1 — Gabi Bond, Director
• Black Lightning — Director
• 2018Running Out of Time — Brenda
• The Rookie — Director
• 2017Polaris — Sophie
• 2017Snowed Inn Christmas — Simone Jenkins
• 2017When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story — Director
• Star — Carol Hardaway, Director
• 2015Boxed in — Executive Producer, Writer, Director
• Empire — Carol Hardaway
• 2015Stock Option — LaTonja
• 2014Addicted — Marcella
• Power — Jarita
• 2011Hell Week — Marla
• 2011Jumping the Broom — Shonda
• Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse — Angela Williams
• 2010Something Like A Business — Angela
• 2010Why Did I Get Married Too? — Angela
• 2009Couples Retreat — Jennifer
• 2009Pastor Brown — Angelique Todd
• 2008The Longshots — Claire Plummer
• 2007Daddy's Little Girls — Jennifer Jackson
• 2007Love and Other Four Letter Words — Lucille
• 2007Playas Ball — Vonda
• 2007Why Did I Get Married? — Angela
• 2006ATL — Gayle
• 2006Glass House: The Good Mother — Caseworker
• 2006Miles from Home — Keisha Knight
• 2006You, Me and Dupree — Co-Worker (uncredited)
• Second Time Around — Laura
• 2004The Whole Ten Yards — Julie
• Nip/Tuck — Carol Nelson
• Without a Trace — Veronica
• Girlfriends — Shandara Durrani
• The Corner — Veronica "Ronnie" Boice
• 1999Chameleon II: Death Match — Webster, IBI Director
• The Parkers
• 1998Max Q: Emergency Landing — Karen Daniels
• The Tom Show — Tanya Cole
• Boston Common — Tasha King
• Malcolm & Eddie
• The Steve Harvey Show — Kimberly Davis
• 1995Let It Be Me — Student
• Chicago Hope — Denise Potter
• Women Like Us — Director

Appearances as themselves (7)

• Sherri — Self - Guest
• Glory Daze — Self
• RuPaul's Drag Race — Self - Guest Judge
• The Tyra Banks Show — Self
• America's Next Top Model — Self - Guest
• Punk'd — Self
• American Music Awards — Self - Presenter