Loretta Devine

About Loretta Devine

Actress who portrayed Marla Hendricks on the Fox television series Boston Public. She also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress for her recurring role as Adele Webber on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher's Wife, For Colored Girls, and Crash are among her film credits. She'll start starring in the Netflix original series Family Reunion in 2019.

Loretta Devine is an American actress and singer best known for her role as Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway Dreamgirls, recurring role as dorm manager Stevie Rallen in "A Different World". From NBC, Marla Hendricks in the Fox Boston Public series, and for her recurring role as Adele Webber in the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which she won the Primetime Emmy for Women Best Lead Actor in a 2011 TV Series. played a role in the Everybody Hates series Chris as Rochelle's mother. In the movie, Devine appeared in Waiting to escape, The Preacher's Wife, Hoodlum, I'm Sam, Urban legend, What a Woman Wanted, The Kingdom Come, Collapse, The Woman Who Loves Art, Class action, For Girls of color, This Christmas, First Sunday, Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Jumping the Broom. She also played the role of Cynthia Carmichael on the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show.

Years active	1977–present
Education	University of Houston (1971, BA), Brandeis University (1976, MFA)
Occupation	Actress, singer
Born	August 21, 1949, Houston, Texas, U.S.

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Trivia

Early in her career, she played the role of Lorell in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which was loosely based on the mo-town group The Supremes.

Loretta Devine before fame

She graduated from the University of Houston with a bachelor's degree in speech and drama, then moved on to Brandeis University for a master's degree in theater.

Achievement of Loretta Devine

She rose to prominence after portraying Lorell in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which was partially based on the Motown group The Supremes.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$10 Million

Loretta Devine family life

Eunice O'Neal, her mother, was a beautician, and James Devine, her father, was a laborer. From 1973 through 2008, she was married to Lamar Tyler. They had one child together. Glenn Marshall was her next husband.

Associations of Loretta Devine

In the 1998 film Down in the Delta, she starred alongside Alfre Woodard.

Loretta Devine Height, Weight & Physique Measurements

Weight	in kg - N/A
Height	169 cm
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