RECENT CREDITS
Avatar (FILM)  Dec. 18, 2009
Orphan (FILM)  Jul. 24, 2009
The Shield (TV)  Jun. 5, 2007
NUMB3RS (TV)  Feb. 4, 2005


HIGHLIGHTS
Grew up on a sugar plantation in British Guyana; attended boarding school in England before moving to Brooklyn.
Married Boubacar Kone, a Senegalese-born anthropologist, in Dakar, Senegal, where he founded a museum, the Musée Boribana.
Received a Grammy nomination in 1996 for the spoken-word album Grow Old with Me: The Best Is Yet to Be (recorded with Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn and Alfre Woodard), but lost to Hillary Rodham
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

Things Behind the Sun  2001 -Judge
Actor
Film


End of Days  1999 -Det. Margie Francis
Actor
Film


Postcards from the Edge  1990 -Julie Marsden
Actor
Film


Bagdad Cafe  1988 -Brenda
Actor
Film


A Touch of Hope   -Lily
Actor
TV


All She Ever Wanted   -Dr. Marilyn Tower
Actor
TV


ER  1994-1997 -Angela Hicks
Actor
TV
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Funny Valentines   -Ethel B.
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Law & Order: Special Victims Unit  2001-2005 -Carolyn Maddox
Actor
TV
Expand


Lifepod   -Mayvene
Actor
TV


Little Girl Fly Away   -Dr. Geddes
Actor
TV


NUMB3RS   -Lt. Havercamp
Actor
TV
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Psycho IV: The Beginning   -Fran Ambrose
Actor
TV


Quantum Leap   -Nita Bond
Actor
TV


The Ernest Green Story   -Daisy Bates
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


The Shield  2002-2007 -Capt. Claudette Wyms, Cpt. Claudette Wyms, Det. Claudette Wyms
Actor, Actor, Actor
TV
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Warehouse 13   -Mrs. Frederic
Actor
TV


West Wing   -Debbie O'Leary
Actor
TV


White Dwarf   -Nurse Shabana
Actor
TV


Zooman  
Actor
TV


Face/Off  1997 -Hollis Miller
Actor
Film


Demon Knight  1995 -Irene
Actor
Film


Benny & Joon  1993 -Dr. Garvey
Actor
Film


The Importance of Being Earnest  1992 -Miss Prism
Actor
Film


Prizzi's Honor  1985 -Peaches Altamont
Actor
Film


Union City  1980
Actor
Film


All That Jazz  1979 -Nurse Blake
Actor
Film


As Summers Die   -Priscilla
Actor
Film


Baby Mammoth   -Narrator
Voice
Film


Boycott   -Jo Ann Robinson
Actor
Film


Breaking the Maya Code   -Narrator
Voice
Film


For Their Own Good   -Naomi Brinker
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Justice League Unlimited: Ultimatum   -Amanda Waller, Juice
Voice, Voice
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Murder in Mississippi   -Fannie Lee Chaney
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


All She Ever Wanted   -Dr.Marilyn Tower
Actor
Film


White Dwarf   -Nurse Shabana
Actor
Film


Zooman  
Actor
Film


Third Degree Burn   -Julie
Actor
Film


Touch of Hope   -Lily Keyes
Actor
Film


Psycho IV: The Beginning   -Fran Ambro
Actor
Film


Race   -Lucinda David
Actor
Film


Rain  
Actor
Film


Redemption   -Winnie Mandela
Actor
Film


Resting Place   -Ada Johnson
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Robocop 3   -Bertha
Actor
Film


Run Till You Fall   -Janice
Actor
Film


Sliver   -Lieutenant Victoria Hendrix
Actor
Film


Voice
Film


The Atlanta Child Murders   -Venus Taylor
Actor
Film


The Big Day   -Pearl
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Avatar  2009
Actor
Film


Orphan  2009
Actor
Film




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Highlights

Grew up on a sugar plantation in British Guyana; attended boarding school in England before moving to Brooklyn.
Married Boubacar Kone, a Senegalese-born anthropologist, in Dakar, Senegal, where he founded a museum, the Musée Boribana.
Received a Grammy nomination in 1996 for the spoken-word album Grow Old with Me: The Best Is Yet to Be (recorded with Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn and Alfre Woodard), but lost to Hillary Rodham
As of 2006, she's been nominated for seven NAACP Image Awards (three times — in '03, '04 and '06 — for The Shield) but never won.


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