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- Broadway: The Next Generation → Self
- Splinter → Mrs. James
- Seen & Heard: The History of Black Television (TV) → Self
- A Murder in Oakland: Beauty is Deadly → Detective Foster
- The Hidden Power of Purpose → Narrator (voice)
- The Jennifer Hudson Show (TV) → Self
- The Jennifer Hudson Show (TV) → Self - Guest
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (TV) → Myrtle (voice)
- JANET JACKSON. (TV) → Self
- Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising → Self
- Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts (TV) → Self
- Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous → Betty Samson
- Cardi Tries (TV) → Self
- Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance → Self
- Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker → Herself
- Tamron Hall (TV) → Self - Guest
- Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back → Self
- Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' (TV) → Self
- American Tap → Self
- S.W.A.T. (TV) → Charice Harrelson
- Raven's Home (TV) → Great Aunt Maureen
- Grace and Frankie (TV) → Dorothy
- Jane the Virgin (TV) → Beverly Flores
- The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
- A Star for Rose → Rose
- A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy → Self
- Celebrity Ghost Stories (TV) → Self
- Fame → Ms. Angela Simms
- Next Day Air → Ms. Jackson
- Bring Back... Fame → Self
- Tournament of Dreams → Rhonda Dillins
- Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story → American Idol Auditionee in Sunglasses
- Grey's Anatomy (TV) → Catherine Fox
- Grey's Anatomy (TV) → Catherine Avery
- Everybody Hates Chris (TV)
- Everybody Hates Chris (TV) → Mother
- So You Think You Can Dance (TV)
- So You Think You Can Dance (TV) → Self - Guest Judge
- Bring Back... (TV) → Self - Lydia Grant
- Confessions of an Action Star → Self
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards → Anita (segment "West Side Story") (archive footage)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies → Self
- All of Us (TV)
- It's Black Entertainment → Self
- The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo → Self (uncredited)
- The Division (TV) → Wanda
- The Painting → Bertha Lee Gilmore
- All About You → Ruth
- The Old Settler → Quilly McGrath
- Everything's Jake → Debbie Allen
- Michael Jordan: An American Hero → Deloris Jordan
- Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker → Herself
- The Middle Passage → Narrator
- E! True Hollywood Story (TV)
- C Bear and Jamal (TV)
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV) → Precious (voice)
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV) → Lola (voice)
- In the House (TV) → Jackie Warren
- Out-of-Sync → Manicurist
- Touched by an Angel (TV) → Valerie Hill
- Blank Check → Yvonne
- Mona Must Die → Betty
- Intimate Portrait (TV) → Self
- Stompin' at the Savoy → Estelle
- Sunday in Paris → Sunday Chase
- Sunday in Paris (TV)
- Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella → Self
- Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
- Quantum Leap (TV) → Joanna Chapman
- A Different World (TV) → Dr. Langhorne
- A Different World (TV) → Debbie Allen (uncredited)
- Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood → Self
- Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling → Michelle
- Night of 100 Stars II → Self
- Disneyland's 30th Anniversary Celebration → Self
- Dancing in the Wings → Debbie
- The Cosby Show (TV) → Emma
- Celebrity (TV) → Regina Brown
- The Stars Salute the U.S. Olympic Team → Self - Performer
- Women of San Quentin → Carol Freeman
- The Kids from Fame: From the Royal Albert Hall London → Self
- Fame (TV) → Lydia Grant
- Alice at the Palace → Red Queen
- Ragtime → Sarah
- Fame → Lydia
- Roots: The Next Generations (TV) → Nan Branch Haley
- The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh → Ola
- Ebony, Ivory and Jade → Claire 'Ebony' Bryant
- The Sentry Collection Presents Ben Vereen: His Roots → Self
- The Love Boat (TV) → Selena Moore
- 3 Girls 3 (TV) → Self
- The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened → Julie Sutton
- Battle of the Network Stars (TV)
- Good Times (TV)
- Great Performances (TV) → Self