Mary Alice

The Matrix Revolutions

2003

as The Oracle

Sunshine State

2002

as Eunice Stokes

The Last Brickmaker in America

2001

as Dorothy Cobb

The Photographer

2000

as Violet

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

1999

as Dolores Williams

The Wishing Tree

1999

as Mattie

Down in the Delta

1998

as Rosa Lynn Sinclair

Bed of Roses

1996

as Alice

Heading Home

1995

as Mary Jones

The Vernon Johns Story

1994

as Altona

The Mother

1994

as Black Lady

The Inkwell

1994

as Evelyn

Life with Mikey

1993

as Mrs. Gordon

A Perfect World

1993

as Lottie

Malcolm X

1992

as School Teacher

To Sleep with Anger

1990

as Suzie

Awakenings

1990

as Nurse Margaret

The Bonfire of the Vanities

1990

as Annie Lamb

The Women of Brewster Place

1989

as Fannie Michael

Beat Street

1984

as Cora

The Killing Floor

1984

as Lilah Dean

Teachers

1984

as Linda Ganz

The Brass Ring

1983

as Mrs. Hauser

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

1982

as Beck

Joshua's World

1980

as Housekeeper

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

as Minnie Hayward

Sparkle

1976

as Effie

Just an Old Sweet Song

1976

as Helen Mayfield

Sty of the Blind Pig

1974

as Alberta Warren

The Education of Sonny Carson

1974

as Moms