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Jill Scott
Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn April 4, 1972 (54 years)
Jill Heather Scott (born April 4, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, model, poet, and actress. Her 2000 debut album, Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1, went platinum and the follow-ups Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2 (2004) and The Real Thing: Words and Sounds Vol. 3 (2007) both achieved gold status.
Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve.
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Scott made her film debut in 2007 in Hounddog and Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?. In 2008, she starred in the BBC/HBO series The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, based on the novels of the same name by Alexander McCall Smith. After a four-year hiatus from music, Scott released her fourth album, The Light of the Sun, in 2011. In 2014, she starred in the film Get on Up as Deidre "Dee Dee" Jenkins, the second wife of James Brown. In 2015, she released her fifth album, Woman. Beginning in 2018, Scott appeared in The CW DC Comics superhero series Black Lightning as Lady Eve.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Jill Scott (singer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
| 2023 | Outlaw Johnny Black · as Maw Belle |
| 2021 | Highway to Heaven · as Angela Stewart |
| 2020 | Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices (TV Series) |
| 2019 | First Wives Club (TV Series) · as Hazel Rachelle |
| 2018 | Black Lightning (TV Series) · as Lady Eve |
| 2017 | Love Beats Rhymes · as Professor Dixon |
| 2017 | Flint · as Nayyirah Shariff |
| 2015 | With This Ring · as Viviane |
| 2014 | black-ish (TV Series) · as Yaya |
| 2014 | Get on Up · as Deedee Brown |
| 2013 | Baggage Claim · as Gail Best |
| 2013 | Fading Gigolo · as Cast |
| 2013 | Being Mary Jane (TV Series) · as Jackie |
| 2012 | Steel Magnolias · as Truvy |
| 2010 | Why Did I Get Married Too? · as Sheila |
| 2010 | Sins of the Mother · as Nona |
| 2010 | Black Panther · as Storm |
| 2010 | Black Panther (TV Series) · as Storm (voice) |
| 2008 | Fringe (TV Series) · as Simone |
| 2008 | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV Series) · as Mma Precious Ramotswe |
| 2007 | Why Did I Get Married? · as Sheila |
| 2007 | Hounddog · as Big Mma Thorton |
| 2005 | Robot Chicken (TV Series) · as Beth |
| 2004 | Cavedweller · as Rosemary |
| 2000 | Girlfriends (TV Series) · as Donna Williams |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series) · as Janice Raleigh |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show (TV Series) |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series) |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) |
| 1986 | The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) · as Musical Guest |