Loretta Devine
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.
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Acting History
2025
Deck the Hallways as Agnes
2025The Christmas Showdown as Hen
2025Lost & Found in Cleveland as Joy Morris
2025Finding Faith
2024Holidazed as Linda Lewin
2024Doctor Odyssey as Jill Manafort
2024Everybody Still Hates Chris as (voice)
2024Tempted by Love as Miss Mimi
2024Bull Street as Mrs. Big-Gal
2023Lucille as Lucille
2023Young Love as Gigi Young (voice)
2023Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In! as Hallie (voice)
2023A Snowy Day in Oakland as Jeanette
2022All I Didn't Want for Christmas as Lorraine
2022Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules as Irene (voice)
2022Mack & Rita as Sharon
2022Doc McStuffins: The Doc Is 10! as Hallie (voice)
2021Christmas Déjà Vu as Crystal
2021Christmas in Harmony as Mama
2021The Starling as Velma
2021Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem as Angela
2021Teenage Euthanasia
2021Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age as Self
2021Queen Bees as Sally
2020Always and Forever as Elda
2020Spell as Eloise
2020Connecting... as Dayleen
2020GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2020P-Valley as Ernestine
2020Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race as Fabulosity - Contestant
2019A Family Reunion Christmas as Amelia 'M'Dear' McKellan
2019A Sweet Christmas Romance as Loretta
2019Postmarked as Hattie
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2019A Black Lady Sketch Show as Marrier
2019Family Reunion as M'Dear
2019The Trap as Mama Jay
2019Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror as Self
2018The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special as Hallie (voice)
2018Jingle Belle as Emory Simons
2018Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend as Self
2018Behind the Movement as Jo Ann Robinson
2018Sierra Burgess Is a Loser as Ms. Thomson
2018Summer Camp Island as Sea Cow (voice)
2017Broadway: The Next Generation as Self
2017Naked as Carol
2017Dear White People as Sorbet (voice)
2017Chapter & Verse as Miss Maddy
2016No Regrets as Ms. Carey
2016Brett Gelman's Dinner in America as Herself
2016Grandma's House
2016Caged No More as Aggie
2016Norm of the North as Tamecia (voice)
2015The Sound and the Fury as Dilsey
2015The Carmichael Show as Cynthia Carmichael
2015For the Love of Ruth as Naomi
2015Welcome to Me as Barb Vaughn
2015Back to School Mom as Meghan Graham
2015Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie as Hallie (voice) (archive footage)
2014A Very Larry Christmas as Mrs. Claus
2014You're Not You as Marilyn
2014black-ish as Lynette
2014Comeback Dad as Malinda
2014Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way as Hallie
2014Sirens as Hank's Mother
2013Saving Westbrook High as Doris
2013The Doc Files as Hallie (voice)
2013Khumba as Mama V (voice)
2012In the Hive as Mrs. Inez
2012The Soul Man as Della Ballentine
2012The Client List as Georgia Cummings
2012Doc McStuffins as Nurse Hallie (voice)
2012Doc McStuffins as Hattie (voice)
2011Politics of Love as Shirlee Gupta
2011State of Georgia as Honey Dupree
2011Jumping the Broom as Mrs. Taylor
2011Madea's Big Happy Family as Shirley
2011Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 as Delta (voice)
2010Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2010Shake It Up as Marsha Sanders
2010For Colored Girls as Juanita / Green
2010Lottery Ticket as Grandma
2010My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done as Miss Roberts
2010Death at a Funeral as Cynthia
2009Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s as Self
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2009Spring Breakdown as Dr. Marguerite
2009Glee as Sister Mary Constance
2009Party Down as Diane Ellison
2009RuPaul's Drag Race as Self - Guest Judge
2008Beverly Hills Chihuahua as Delta (voice)
2008Eli Stone as Patti Dellacroix
2008First Sunday as Sister Doris
2007This Christmas as Shirley Ann "Ma'Dere" Whitfield
2007Cougar Club as Dolly
2006Dreamgirls as Jazz Singer
2006Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story as Addie Collins
2006Dirty Laundry as Evelyn
2006Psych as Melba Birdson
2005Everybody Hates Chris as Maxine
2005Supernatural as Missouri Moseley
2005Crash as Shaniqua Johnson
2005King's Ransom as Miss Gladys
2005Grey's Anatomy as Adele Webber
2004Boston Legal as Judge Victoria Thomson
2004Boston Legal as Annabelle Carruthers
2004Woman Thou Art Loosed as Cassey Jordan
2003Cold Case as Chandra Patterson (2009)
2003Wild Card as M. Pearl McGuire
2002Half & Half as Erika Duke
2002Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2001I Am Sam as Margaret Calgrove
2001Kingdom Come as Marguerite Slocumb
2000What Women Want as Flo
2000Boston Public as Marla Hendricks
2000Urban Legends: Final Cut as Reese
2000Girlfriends as Judge Vashti Jackson
2000Strong Medicine
2000Best Actress as Connie Travers
2000Freedom Song as Evelyn Walker
2000Punks as Health Counselor
1999Love Kills as Sylvia Finkelstein
1999Family Law as Gloria Rivers
1999Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Ruby Dandridge
1999Jackie's Back! as Snookie Tate (Jackie's Childhood Friend)
1999The Breaks as Floria
1999Funny Valentines as Dearie B.
1999The PJs as Muriel Stubbs (voice)
1998Down in the Delta as Zenia
1998Urban Legend as Reese Wilson
1997Don King: Only in America as Connie Harper
1997Lover Girl as Leticia / 'Coco'
1997Clover as Everleen
1997Ally McBeal as Nora Mills
1997Hoodlum as Pigfoot Mary
1997The Price of Kissing as Jackee
1996The Preacher's Wife as Beverly
1996Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault as Miss Mary
1996Promised Land as Tonya Hawkins
1996Moesha as Steph
1995Waiting to Exhale as Gloria
1995Ned & Stacey as Mrs. Duncan
1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Mother (voice)
1994Touched by an Angel as Tonya Hawkins
1993Amos & Andrew as Ula
1993The American Clock
1992Love & War
1992Out All Night as Crystal
1992Class Act as Blade's Mom
1991Livin' Large! as Nadine Biggs
1991Roc
1991Roc as Cynthia
1991Caged Fear as Judy
1991The Colored Museum as Janine
1990Cop Rock
1990Sugar and Spice
1990Stanley & Iris as Bertha
1989Parent Trap III as Thelma
1988Murphy Brown as Nurse Hawking
1988Sticky Fingers as Diane
1988Little Nikita as Verna McLaughlin
1988The Murder of Mary Phagan as Annie Maude Carter
1987A Different World as Stevie Rallen
1987A Different World as Stevie Rallen
1983Anna to the Infinite Power as Mrs. Benson
1981Will as Jean
1971Great Performances as Janine
—Break the Cycle
—Lottery Ticket 2 as Grandma
—Legally Mad as Jeanette Harris