Loretta Devine
Birthday: 1949-08-21
Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, USA
Biography: 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.
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Class Act
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Hoodlum
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The Preacher's Wife
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Waiting to Exhale
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Urban Legend
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Dirty Laundry
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Don King: Only in America
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
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Khumba
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In the Hive
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Crash
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Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
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Kingdom Come
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Caged Fear
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Best Actress
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Bull Street
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Lost & Found in Cleveland
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I Am Sam
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Stanley & Iris
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All I Didn't Want for Christmas
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Back to School Mom
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A Snowy Day in Oakland
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Break the Cycle
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Welcome to Me
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Dreamgirls
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Freedom Song
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Broadway: The Next Generation
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Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
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Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
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The American Clock
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Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
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King's Ransom
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The Trap
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The Breaks
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Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
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The Starling
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Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
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A Sweet Christmas Romance
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For the Love of Ruth
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A Family Reunion Christmas
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant...
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Parent Trap III
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Anna to the Infinite Power
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, ...
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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school ...
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Spring Breakdown
Three women in their thirties head to a popular Spring Break destination and try to relive the Sprin...
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Postmarked
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Spell
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Queen Bees
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Little Nikita
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Cougar Club
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Will
A girls’ basketball coach battles a heroin addiction while mentoring a 12-year-old street kid adopte...
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Mack & Rita
A 30-year-old spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transform...
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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as ...
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Jackie's Back!
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback c...
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Finding Faith
Faith Mitchell, a loving wife and mother, struggles to keep her family together amidst financial har...
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Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
In the 1980s we got our MTV but seemed to have lost much of the musical film in the process. But the...
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Tempted by Love
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A Different World
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Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
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Deck the Hallways
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The Christmas Showdown
Former best friends April and Chastity compete for the same event design job at a Christmas show. Th...
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