Debbie Allen

A Different World

2026 · Dr. Langhorne

A Murder in Oakland: Beauty is Deadly

2025 · Detective Foster

The Hidden Power of Purpose

2023 · Narrator (voice)

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

2022 · Myrtle (voice)

Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous

2021 · Betty Samson

S.W.A.T.

2017 · Charice Harrelson

Raven's Home

2017 · Great Aunt Maureen

Grace and Frankie

2015 · Dorothy

The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker

2014

Jane the Virgin

2014 · Beverly Flores

A Star for Rose

2013 · Rose

Fame

2009 · Ms. Angela Simms

Next Day Air

2009 · Ms. Jackson

Tournament of Dreams

2007 · Rhonda Dillins

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006 · American Idol Auditionee in Sunglasses

Everybody Hates Chris

2005 · Mother

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005 · Anita (segment "West Side Story") (archive footage)

Grey's Anatomy

2005 · Catherine Fox, Catherine Avery

All of Us

2003

The Painting

2001 · Bertha Lee Gilmore

All About You

2001 · Ruth

The Old Settler

2001 · Quilly McGrath

The Division

2001 · Wanda

Everything's Jake

2000 · Debbie Allen

Michael Jordan: An American Hero

1999 · Deloris Jordan

Ships of Slaves: The Middle Passage

1997 · Narrator

E! True Hollywood Story

1996

C Bear and Jamal

1996

Out-of-Sync

1995 · Manicurist

In the House

1995 · Jackie Warren

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995 · Precious (voice), Lola (voice)

Touched by an Angel

1994 · Valerie Hill

Mona Must Die

1994 · Betty

Blank Check

1994 · Yvonne

Stompin' at the Savoy

1992 · Estelle

Sunday in Paris

1991 · Sunday Chase