Alfre Woodard

Claudia Villars

K-PAX

Lily Sloane

Star Trek: First Contact

Shoat

Primal Fear

Plio (voice)

Dinosaur

Lily

Mumford

Disney's American Legends

Marianna

How to Make an American Quilt

Mary

Summer Camp

Stickley

The Core

Carolyn Carmichael

Crooklyn

Augustine James

Take the Lead

Mrs. Whatsit

A Wrinkle in Time

Jane

Grand Canyon

Principal Daniels

Radio

Ms. Josephine

Beauty Shop

Chantelle

Passion Fish

Evey

Follow Me Home

Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

Camille Wright

Love & Basketball

Alice Pratt

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

Mum

Weathering

Ann

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

Vicki Teague

Sweet Revenge

Evelyn

Reach for Me

Sally Benbow

HealtH

Rita

Remember My Name

Mistress Shaw

12 Years a Slave

Rosie Mangena

Bopha!

Wanda Dean

Holiday Heart

Loretta Sinclair

Down in the Delta

Claudie Sills

Words by Heart

Geechee

Cross Creek

Rhody Poole

Rich in Love

Eunice Evers, R.N.

Miss Evers' Boys

Ouiser

Steel Magnolias

Berenice Sadie Brown

The Member of the Wedding

Esther

Go Tell It on the Mountain

Medicine Woman (voice)

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

Dr. Olsen

Space Oddity

Maude DeVictor

Unnatural Causes

Mary Thomas

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

Winnie Mandela

Mandela

Joyce May

Funny Valentines

Popeye Jackson

Miss Firecracker

Dr. Allen

Lost Souls

Patricia

Extremities

Evelyn

Annabelle

Mary Lou Williams (voice)

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band

Lavada McRae

Blue Chips

E

The Door

Sam

Mississippi Grind

Det. Anne Pope

The Forgotten

Self

Nelson Mandela Redrawn

Audrey Williams

What's Cooking?

Bernadette

So B. It

Karisha Ellsworth

The Ambush Murders

Chief of Staff

The Singing Detective

Sheila

Knucklehead

Mother Mary

The Book of Clarence

Self

A Path Appears

Narrator

Medal of Honor

Polly / Narrator (voice)

John Henry

Narrator (voice)

Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature

Katie

Freedom Road

Edna Reilly

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Grace Cooley

Scrooged

Miriam

Captain America: Civil War

Woman who lost her stuff

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Professor Hughes

Burning Sands

Dr. Sadlin

A Step Toward Tomorrow

Mrs. Brown

The Water Is Wide

Berniece Charles

The Piano Lesson

Alma Roberts

American Violet

Self

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

Lucy Smith

The Trial of the Moke

Sarabi (voice)

The Lion King

Narrator

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

Clara

The Wishing Tree

Princess Lovinia

Puss in Boots

Ilanga (voice)

King Leopold's Ghost

Mattie

The Killing Floor

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Dondi Reece

Black Panther

Henry Box Brown

Judge Benton

Saint Judy

Warden Bernadine Williams

Clemency

Tamara O'Neil

Special Report: Journey to Mars

Juanita

Juanita

Marian

Fatherhood

The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts

Penny Washington

Heart and Souls

Self (archive footage)

And the Oscar Goes To...

Mary Parrish (voice)

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

Narrator (voice)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Narrator

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

Mrs. Marks

Aliens for Breakfast

Herself

The Making of Clemency

Narrator

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

The Underground Railroad

Andrea Crawford

The Child Saver

Narrator (voice)

No Small Matter

Self - Narrator

Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty

Jessica Filley

Blue Bayou

Self

Searching for Debra Winger

Margaret Cahill

The Gray Man

Joyce McQueen

Something New

Self

Black Hollywood

Narrator

Precious Blood

Maisie (voice)

The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue

Adrianne Moore

L.A. Law: Pilot

Alma Thomas (voice)

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

Mary Parrish (voice)

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street

Hate to See You Go

Dr. Cody

Salem's Lot

Herself

Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”

Self

The Inquisitor