Akeelah and the Bee
2006 · Drama
as Tanya
The Rosa Parks Story
2002 · Biography
as Rosa Parks
9-1-1 S9
2025 · Action
as Athena Grant
Abandon Ships
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as Athena Grant-Nash
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998 · Comedy
as Stella Payne
What's Love Got to Do with It
1993 · Biography
as Tina Turner
The Apollo
2020 · Documentary
as Self
Between the World and Me
Good Night Oppy
2022 · Documentary
as Self - Narrator
Black Nativity
2013 · Drama
as Aretha Cobbs
Strange Days
1995 · Crime
as Lornette 'Mace' Mason
Malcolm X
1992 · Biography
as Betty Shabazz
Mr. 3000
2004 · Comedy
as Mo
I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac
2012 · Documentary
Betty and Coretta
2013 · Biography
as Coretta Scott King
Damsel
as Lady Bayford
Jumping the Broom
2011 · Comedy
as Mrs. Watson
Wendell & Wild
2022 · Animation
as Sister Helley
Nothing But the Truth
2009 · Crime
as Bonnie Benjamin
Supernova
2000 · Horror
as Dr. Kaela Evers
Chi-Raq
2016 · Comedy
as Miss Helen
2021 Golden Globe Awards
2021 · Comedy
as Self - Presenter
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995 · Comedy
as Rita
Boyz n the Hood
1991 · Crime
as Reva Styles
The Score
2001 · Crime
as Diane
White Bird in a Blizzard
2014 · Drama
as Dr. Thaler
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022 · Action
as Ramonda
American Horror Story S1-S12
2011 · Drama
as Marie Laveau
Finding Your Roots S1-S11
Zero Day
2025 · Drama
as President Evelyn Mitchell
Masked and Anonymous
2003 · Comedy
as Mistress
This Means War
2012 · Action
as Collins
Tina
2021 · Documentary
Green Lantern
2011 · Action
as Doctor Waller
Soul
2020 · Animation
as Dorothea
Notorious
2009 · Biography
as Voletta Wallace
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards
Black Panther
2018 · Action
City of Hope
as Reesha
The 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021 · Music
BoJack Horseman S6
2019 · Animation
as Ana Spanikopita
