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Loretta Devine

Highest Rated:: 83% Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
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% - 83%

Number of Movies: 51

Box Office Since 2001: $604.0M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2015		Norm Of The North	Actor	--
2012		In The Hive	Actor	--
2011	38%	Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family	Shirley	$53.3M
2011	55%	Jumping the Broom	Mrs. Taylor	$37.3M
2011		Politics Of Love	Actor	--
2010	35%	Lottery Ticket	Grandma	$24.7M
2010	41%	Death at a Funeral	Cynthia	$16.0M
2010	32%	For Colored Girls	Juanita	$37.7M
2009	50%	My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done	Miss Roberts	--
2008	41%	Beverly Hills Chihuahua	Delta	$94.5M
2008	13%	First Sunday	Sister Doris	$37.9M
2008	60%	Spring Breakdown	Actor	--
2008	50%	Dirty Laundry	Evelyn	--
2007		Cougar Club	Actor	--
2007	55%	This Christmas	Shirley Ann Whitfield (Ma Dear)	$49.1M
2006		Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story	Addie Collins	--
2006	78%	Dreamgirls	Actor	$103.3M
2005	2%	King's Ransom	Miss Gladys	$4.0M
2005	75%	Crash	Shaniqua	$55.4M
2004	51%	Woman Thou Art Loosed	Cassie	$6.8M
2002		Book of Love: The Definitive Reason Why Men Are Dogs	Actor	--
2001	28%	Kingdom Come	Marguerite	$22.6M
2001	34%	I Am Sam	Margaret Calgrove	$40.3M
2000	50%	Punks	Health Counseler	--
2000	9%	Urban Legends: Final Cut	Reese Wilson	$21.0M
2000		Freedom Song	Evelyn Walker	--
1999		The Price of Kissing	Jackee	--
1999	83%	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Ruby Dandridge	--
1999		The Breaks	Actor	--
1999		Splitsville	Actor	--
1998	21%	Urban Legend	Reese	--
1998	78%	Down in the Delta	Zenia	--
1998		Love Kills	Sylvia Finklestein	--
1997		Don King: Only in America	Connie Harper	--
1997	45%	Hoodlum	Pigfoot Mary	--
1997		Lover Girl	Coco	--
1996	60%	The Preacher's Wife	Beverly	--
1996		Rebound: The Legend of Earl The Goat Manigault	Actor	--
1996		Don King: Only in America	Actor	--
1995	52%	Waiting to Exhale	Gloria Johnson	--
1994		The Hard Truth	Nichols' Secretary	--
1993	21%	Amos & Andrew	Ula	--
1992	17%	Class Act	Blade's Mom	--
1992		Caged Fear	Actor	--
1991		Livin' Large	Nadine Biggs	--
1990	29%	Stanley & Iris	Bertha	--
1989		Parent Trap III	Thelma	--
1988		Sticky Fingers	Diane	--
1988	55%	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. Reese Wilson: I know a good story. It's about a campus serial killer who murders eight people...
2. Amy Mayfield: Yeah, I heard that one. It supposedly happened at Pendleton. It's just an urban legend.
From Urban Legends: Final Cut. Submitted by Folashade K (5 months ago)

1. Amy Mayfield: Reese, I must have dropped the tape. Did you see it?
2. Reese Wilson: I looked, but I didn't see no tape, just yo' crazy white ass down in the sewer!
From Urban Legends: Final Cut. Submitted by Folashade K (5 months ago)