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.…
Filmography
Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs
2002 · 9.5
Postmarked
2019 · 9.0
Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem
2021 · 8.6
Finding Faith
2025 · 8.6
M.I.A.
2026 · 8.4
Supernatural
2005 · 8.3
Half & Half
2002 · 8.3
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · 8.2
Family Law
1999 · 8.1
Everybody Hates Chris
2005 · 8.1
Family Reunion
2019 · 8.0
Will
1981 · 8.0
Boston Legal
2004 · 7.9
Psych
2006 · 7.9
Roc
1991 · 7.8
Out All Night
1992 · 7.8
Cold Case
2003 · 7.7
Summer Camp Island
2018 · 7.7
Funny Valentines
1999 · 7.7
Boston Public
2000 · 7.6
P-Valley
2020 · 7.6
I Am Sam
2001 · 7.6
Shake It Up
2010 · 7.5
Everybody Still Hates Chris
2024 · 7.5
Sugar and Spice
1990 · 7.5
Party Down
2009 · 7.5
Strong Medicine
2000 · 7.4
You're Not You
2014 · 7.4
Holidazed
2024 · 7.4
Chapter & Verse
2017 · 7.4
Girlfriends
2000 · 7.3
Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family - The Play
2010 · 7.3
Crash
2005 · 7.2
Touched by an Angel
1994 · 7.2
A Different World
1987 · 7.2
Ned & Stacey
1995 · 7.2
The Carmichael Show
2015 · 7.2
State of Georgia
2011 · 7.2
No Regrets
2016 · 7.2
black-ish
2014 · 7.1
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
1996 · 7.1
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019 · 7.0
A Doutora Faz 10 Anos
2022 · 7.0
The Starling
2021 · 6.9
Moesha
1996 · 6.9
The PJs
1999 · 6.9
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event
2020 · 6.9
A Sweet Christmas Romance
2019 · 6.9
Jackie's Back!
1999 · 6.9
Comeback Dad
2014 · 6.9
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2022 · 6.8
Don King: Only in America
1997 · 6.8
A Snowy Day in Oakland
2023 · 6.8
Glee
2009 · 6.8
For Colored Girls
2010 · 6.7
Eli Stone
2008 · 6.7
Sirens
2014 · 6.7
Dreamgirls
2006 · 6.7
Madea's Big Happy Family
2011 · 6.7
This Christmas
2007 · 6.6
Kingdom Come
2001 · 6.6
The Client List
2012 · 6.6
Ally McBeal
1997 · 6.5
Doctor Odyssey
2024 · 6.5
Murphy Brown
1988 · 6.5
Promised Land
1996 · 6.5
Hoodlum
1997 · 6.5
Stanley & Iris
1990 · 6.5
The Breaks
1999 · 6.5
What Women Want
2000 · 6.4
Love & War
1992 · 6.4
Spell
2020 · 6.4
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999 · 6.4
All I Didn't Want for Christmas
2022 · 6.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · 6.3
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018 · 6.3
Class Act
1992 · 6.3
Down in the Delta
1998 · 6.3
Waiting to Exhale
1995 · 6.2
The Murder of Mary Phagan
1988 · 6.2
For the Love of Ruth
2015 · 6.2
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006 · 6.2
Great Performances
1971 · 6.1
Doc McStuffins
2012 · 6.1
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
2010 · 6.1
Urban Legend
1998 · 6.1
Dear White People
2017 · 6.0
The Soul Man
2012 · 6.0
Khumba
2013 · 6.0
Little Nikita
1988 · 6.0
Queen Bees
2021 · 6.0
Saving Westbrook High
2013 · 6.0
Death at a Funeral
2010 · 5.9
Jingle Belle
2018 · 5.9
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011 · 5.9
Jumping the Broom
2011 · 5.9
Welcome to Me
2015 · 5.9
Lover Girl
1997 · 5.9
Parent Trap III
1989 · 5.9
A Family Reunion Christmas
2019 · 5.9
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
2020 · 5.8
The Preacher's Wife
1996 · 5.8
Naked
2017 · 5.8
Sticky Fingers
1988 · 5.8
Livin' Large!
1991 · 5.8
Teenage Euthanasia
2021 · 5.7
Always and Forever
2020 · 5.7
Young Love
2023 · 5.6
Lottery Ticket
2010 · 5.6
First Sunday
2008 · 5.6
Connecting...
2020 · 5.5
Mack & Rita
2022 · 5.5
Spring Breakdown
2009 · 5.5
Woman Thou Art Loosed
2004 · 5.5
Doc McStuffins: Cuddle Me Lambie
2015 · 5.5
Anna to the Infinite Power
1983 · 5.5
Amos & Andrew
1993 · 5.5
Wild Card
2003 · 5.4
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
2008 · 5.4
Dirty Laundry
2006 · 5.4
Back to School Mom
2015 · 5.3
Punks
2000 · 5.1
King's Ransom
2005 · 5.0
The Sound and the Fury
2015 · 5.0
Lost & Found in Cleveland
2025 · 5.0
In the Hive
2012 · 5.0
The Christmas Showdown
2025 · 5.0
Doc Mcstuffins: A Little Cuddle Goes A Long Way
2014 · 5.0
Christmas in Harmony
2021 · 5.0
The Doc McStuffins Christmas Special
2018 · 5.0
The Trap
2019 · 5.0
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000 · 4.9
Norm of the North
2016 · 4.7
The Price of Kissing
1997 · 4.7
Grandma's House
2016 · 4.5
Caged No More
2016 · 4.3
Christmas Déjà Vu
2021 · 4.2
Cop Rock
1990 · 4.1
Caged Fear
1991 · 4.1
Cougar Club
2007 · 3.9
Love Kills
1999 · 3.5
Politics of Love
2011 · 3.3
Best Actress
2000 · 2.6
The Doc Files
2013 · 2.0
A Very Larry Christmas
2014 · 2.0
Bull Street
2024 · 1.0
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
2023 · 0.0
Three Colors: Pan-African
2026 · 0.0
Legally Mad
— · 0.0
Forever, This Ring
2026 · 0.0
Violets
2017 · 0.0
Baby of the Family
— · 0.0
That's Her
— · 0.0
Lucille
2023 · 0.0
The Colored Museum
1991 · 0.0
Break the Cycle
— · 0.0