The Education of Sonny Carson

(1974)

Moms

Sty of the Blind Pig

(1974)

Alberta Warren

Sparkle

(1976)

Effie

Just an Old Sweet Song

(1976)

Helen Mayfield

Lawman Without a Gun

(1979)

Minnie Hayward

A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

(1982)

Beck

The Brass Ring

(1983)

Mrs. Hauser

Beat Street

(1984)

Cora

The Killing Floor

(1984)

Lilah Dean

Teachers

(1984)

Linda Ganz

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

(1985)

Blind Lily

The Women of Brewster Place

(1989)

Fannie Michael

Awakenings

(1990)

Nurse Margaret

To Sleep with Anger

(1990)

Suzie

The Bonfire of the Vanities

(1990)

Annie Lamb

Malcolm X

(1992)

School Teacher

A Perfect World

(1993)

Lottie

Life with Mikey

(1993)

Mrs. Gordon

The Vernon Johns Story

(1994)

Altona

The Inkwell

(1994)

Evelyn

The Mother

(1994)

Black Lady

Heading Home

(1995)

Mary Jones

Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder

(1995)

Bed of Roses

(1996)

Alice

Down in the Delta

(1998)

Rosa Lynn Sinclair

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

(1999)

Dolores Williams

The Wishing Tree

(1999)

Mattie

The Photographer

(2000)

Violet

The Last Brickmaker in America

(2001)

Dorothy Cobb

Sunshine State

(2002)

Eunice Stokes

The Matrix Revolutions

(2003)

Oracle

What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison

(2003)

Self

The Matrix Recalibrated

(2004)

Self

The Burly Man Chronicles

(2004)