Loretta Devine
Acting
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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As actor 172
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Supernatural
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Psych
2006
Glee
2009
Cold Case
2003
Boston Legal
2004
Murphy Brown
1988
Great Performances
1971
Strong Medicine
2000
Touched by an Angel
1994
Summer Camp Island
2018
Girlfriends
2000
black-ish
2014
Tamron Hall
2019
Doc McStuffins
2012
A Different World
1987
Everybody Hates Chris
2005
Shake It Up
2010
Moesha
1996
Boston Public
2000
P-Valley
2020
M.I.A.
2026
Party Down
2009
Family Law
1999
Ally McBeal
1997
Family Reunion
2019
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Dear White People
2017
Doctor Odyssey
2024
Eli Stone
2008
What Women Want
2000
The Soul Man
2012
Half & Half
2002
The Client List
2012
Crash
2005
Teenage Euthanasia
2021
Ned & Stacey
1995
Love & War
1992
The PJs
1999
I Am Sam
2001
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024
Dreamgirls
2006
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Sirens
2014
Wild Card
2003
Promised Land
1996
The Carmichael Show
2015
Roc
1991
Urban Legend
1998
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008
Hoodlum
1997
Death at a Funeral
2010
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
2020
Spell
2020
Amos & Andrew
1993
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022
Mack & Rita
2022
Young Love
2023
Lottery Ticket
2010
Khumba
2013
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010
Norm of the North
2016
Cop Rock
1990
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
Waiting to Exhale
1995
You're Not You
2014
The Starling
2021
Naked
2017
Class Act
1992
First Sunday
2008
Out All Night
1992
The Preacher's Wife
1996
Queen Bees
2021
Stanley & Iris
1990
King's Ransom
2005
This Christmas
2007
Three Colors: Pan-African
2026
Spring Breakdown
2009
State of Georgia
2011
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
Connecting...
2020
Jumping the Broom
2011
Saving Westbrook High
2013
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
2021
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
2020
Holidazed
2024
For Colored Girls
2010
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988
Jingle Belle
2018
Kingdom Come
2001
Cougar Club
2007
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
2023
The Trap
2019
Parent Trap III
1989
The Doc Files
2013
Little Nikita
1988
Madea's Big Happy Family
2011
Always and Forever
2020
The Breaks
1999
Jackie's Back!
1999
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
Welcome to Me
2015
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2010
Deck the Hallways
2025
A Doutora Faz 10 Anos
2022
The Christmas Showdown
2025
No Regrets
2016
Postmarked
2019
Don King: Only in America
1997
Lover Girl
1997
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002
Grandma's House
2016
Freedom Song
2000
Terry McMillan Presents: Tempted by Love
2024
The Sound and the Fury
2015
In the Hive
2012
The American Clock
1993
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror
2019
Livin' Large!
1991
Caged No More
2016
Violets
2017
Down in the Delta
1998
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
A Sweet Christmas Romance
2019
Sugar and Spice
1990
A Family Reunion Christmas
2019
Broadway: The Next Generation
Politics of Love
2011
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004
Punks
2000
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025
Legally Mad
Finding Faith
2025
Clover
1997
Dirty Laundry
2006
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
2015
That's Her
Anna to the Infinite Power
1983
Will
1981
Comeback Dad
2014
Funny Valentines
1999
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
2018
Best Actress
2000
Love Kills
1999
Sticky Fingers
1988
Behind the Movement
2018
Caged Fear
1991
The Price of Kissing
1997
Brett Gelman's Dinner in America
2016
For the Love of Ruth
2015
Bull Street
2024
Lucille
2023
Christmas in Harmony
2021
Chapter & Verse
2017
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
2014
A Very Larry Christmas
2014
Urban Legacy: The Story Behind Urban Legend
2018
Back to School Mom
2015
Christmas Déjà Vu
2021
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2022
Forever, This Ring
2026
The Colored Museum
1991
Break the Cycle