Till

2022

Luck

2022

Harlem (TV)

2021

The Stand (TV)

Mother Abagail

2020

Lorena (TV)

Self

2019

Nobody's Fool

Lola

2018

The Rachel Divide

Herself (archive footage)

2018

Time Out

Moms

2018

Gilbert

Herself

2017

A Very Sordid Wedding

Abernatha Coleman

2017

When We Rise (TV)

2017

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life

Herself

2016

Big Stone Gap

Fleeta Mullins

2014

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Bernadette Thompson

2014

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Viola

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

Herself - Actress

2014

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

Narrator (voice)

2011

A Little Bit of Heaven

God

2011

For Colored Girls

Alice

2010

Snow Buddies

Miss Mittens

2008

If I Had Known I Was a Genius

Mom

2007

Farce of the Penguins

2006

Everyone's Hero

Darlin'

2006

Homie Spumoni

Thelma

2006

Doogal

Ermintrude

2006

Blizzard

Blizzard (voice)

2003

The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata

Shenzi

2004

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie

Daniel's 'Boss'

2002

Whoopi (TV)

2003

Good Fences

Mabel Spader

2003

Searching for Debra Winger

Herself

2002

The 74th Annual Academy Awards (TV)

Herself - Hostess

2002

Rat Race

Vera Baker

2001

Call Me Claus

Lucy Cullins

2001

Monkeybone

Death

2001

Kingdom Come

Raynelle Slocumb

2001

What Makes a Family

Terry Harrison

2001

Alice in Wonderland

1999

Girl, Interrupted

Valerie

1999

The Deep End of the Ocean

Candy

1999

The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV)

1999

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Delilah Abraham

1998

Get Bruce

Herself

1999

Our Friend, Martin

Mrs. Peck

1999

A Christmas Carol

Spirit of Christmas Present

1997

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns (TV)

1999

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie

Stormella - The Evil Ice Queen

1998

The Wonderful World of Disney (TV)

1995

The Associate

Laurel Ayres

1996

Ghosts from the Past

Myrlie Evers

1996

Eddie

Eddie

1996

In the Gloaming

Nurse Myrna

1997

Bogus

Harriet Franklin

1996

Theodore Rex

Katie Coltrane

1995

The Celluloid Closet

Herself

1995

Moonlight and Valentino

Sylvie Morrow

1995

Boys on the Side

Jane

1995

The Pagemaster

Fantasy

1994

The Lion King

Shenzi

1994

Naked in New York

1993

Made in America

Sarah Mathews

1993

Sarafina!

Mary Masembuko

1992

The Player

Detective Avery

1992

Soapdish

Rose Schwartz

1991

The Long Walk Home

Odessa Cotter

1990

Homer and Eddie

Eddie Cervi

1989

Fatal Beauty

Rita Rizzoli

1987

Clara's Heart

Clara Mayfield

1988

The Telephone

Vashti Blue

1988

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Terry Doolittle

1986

Burglar

Bernice Rhodenbarr

1987

The Color Purple

Celie Johnson

1985