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Loretta Devine

Highest Rated:: 86% Little Nikita (1988)
Lowest Rated:: 2% King's Ransom (2005)

Birthday:: Aug 21, 1949
Birthplace:: Houston, Texas, USA
Bio:: Born in Houston in 1949, actress Loretta Devine rose to fame on-stage in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls before parlaying her acclaim into a career in film and television. Her first major onscreen role came in 1987, when she was cast as a resident advisor on the Cosby Show-spin-off A…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 2% - 86%

Number of Movies: 48

Box Office Since 2001: $604.0M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2011	54%	Jumping the Broom	Mrs. Taylor	$37.3M
2011		Politics Of Love	Actor	--
2011	41%	Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family	Shirley	$53.3M
2010	33%	For Colored Girls	Juanita	$37.7M
2010	34%	Lottery Ticket	Grandma	$24.7M
2010	40%	Death at a Funeral	Cynthia	$16.0M
2009	50%	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done	Miss Roberts	--
2008	13%	First Sunday	Sister Doris	$37.9M
2008	60%	Spring Breakdown	Actor	--
2008	41%	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Delta	$94.5M
2007	55%	This Christmas	Shirley Ann Whitfield (Ma Dear)	$49.1M
2007		Cougar Club	Actor	--
2006		Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story	Actor	--
2006	50%	Dirty Laundry	Evelyn	--
2006	78%	Dreamgirls	Actor	$103.3M
2005	76%	Crash	Shaniqua	$55.4M
2005	2%	King's Ransom	Miss Gladys	$4.0M
2004	52%	Woman Thou Art Loosed	Cassie	$6.8M
2002		Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs	Actor	--
2001	34%	I Am Sam	Margaret Calgrove	$40.3M
2001	28%	Kingdom Come	Marguerite	$22.6M
2000	50%	Punks	Health Counseler	--
2000	9%	Urban Legends: Final Cut	Reese Wilson	$21.0M
2000		Freedom Song	Evelyn Walker	--
1999		The Breaks	Actor	--
1999		Splitsville	Actor	--
1999		The Price of Kissing	Actor	--
1999	83%	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Ruby Dandridge	--
1998	78%	Down in the Delta	Zenia	--
1998		Love Kills	Sylvia Finklestein	--
1998	21%	Urban Legend	Reese	--
1997		Don King: Only in America	Connie Harper	--
1997	45%	Hoodlum	Pigfoot Mary	--
1997		Lover Girl	Coco	--
1996	63%	The Preacher's Wife	Beverly	--
1996		Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault	Actor	--
1995	52%	Waiting to Exhale	Gloria Johnson	--
1994		The Hard Truth	Nichols' Secretary	--
1993	21%	Amos & Andrew	Ula	--
1992		Caged Fear	Actor	--
1991		Livin' Large	Nadine Biggs	--
1991	20%	Class Act	Blade's Mom	--
1990	29%	Stanley & Iris	Bertha	--
1989		Parent Trap III	Thelma	--
1988		Sticky Fingers	Diane	--
1988	86%	Little Nikita	Verna McLaughlin	--
1987		The Murder of Mary Phagan	Annie Maude Carter	--
1984		Anna to the Infinite Power	Mrs. Brown	--

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1. Madea: See, y'all Christians is somethin'... y'all go pull out that Bible, but y'all don't know which prescripture to use for which situation. You got to find the right prescripture. There's a prescripture that says, 'Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.' Have you been redeemed by the Lord?
2. Shirley: Yes.
3. Madea: That's right, so if you've been redeemed by the Lord, and somebody does something to you that you don't like, even yo' kids, you can beat the hell outta them and just say, 'So?' So that's what I'm'a do. I'm'a beat the hell outta them and say, 'So?' And I'm'a bring them over here 'cause you've been redeemed, aight. It makes perfect sense, don't it? Halleluyer! Halleluyer!
From Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family. Submitted by Stephanie G (5 months ago)

1. Juanita: Juanita: I got a real dead loving here for you now, because I don't know anymore how to avoid my own face wet with my tears! Because I had convinced myself that colored girls have no right to sorrow!
2. Frank: I guess this is goodbye.
3. Juanita: Like you've never seen it before.
From For Colored Girls. Submitted by Tammy T (6 months ago)