Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949 in Houston, Texas) is an American actress and singer.
She is best known for her roles as Gloria "Glo" Matthews in Waiting to Exhale, Marla Hendricks on Boston Public and Adele Webber on Grey's Anatomy, the latter of which won her a Primetime Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Other film, television and stage credits she has been involved with include Dreamgirls, Urban Legend, Crash (2004), The PJs and Doc McStuffins.
Partial Filmography:
- A Different World
- Class Act
- Picket Fences
- Waiting to Exhale
- The Preachers Wife
- Down in the Delta
- Urban Legend
- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- The PJs
- Boston Public
- Kingdom Come
- i am sam
- Woman Art Thou Loosed
- Crash (2004)
- Grey's Anatomy
- Everybody Hates Chris
- Dreamgirls
- Eli Stone
- This Christmas
- For Colored Girls
- Madea's Big Happy Family
- Doc McStuffins
- The Client List
- Being Mary Jane
- The Carmichael Show
- Sierra Burgess is a Loser
- Jumping the Broom
- Young Love (2023)
- The Loud House
- Eureka! (2022)