- A Fall from Grace
2020 Alice
- Cherish the Day
2020 Miss Luma Lee Langston
- The Other Boys of Summer
2019 Narrator
- Last Flag Flying
2017 Mrs. Hightower
- Showing Roots
2016 Hattie
- The Trip to Bountiful
2014 Executive Producer
- How to Get Away with Murder
2014 Ophelia Harkness
- Madam Secretary
2014 Flo Avery
- The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013 Mama Kay
- House of Cards
2013 Doris Jones
- Alex Cross
2012 Nana Mama
- The Help
2011 Constantine Jefferson
- Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010 Ola
- Relative Stranger
2009 Pearl
- Idlewild
2006 Mother Hopkins
- Madea's Family Reunion
2006 Myrtle
- Fat Rose and Squeaky
2006 Celine
- Because of Winn-Dixie
2005 Gloria Dump
- Diary of a Mad Black Woman
2005 Myrtle
- The Rosa Parks Story
2002 Leona Edwards McCauley
- Jewel
2001 Cathedral
- The Proud Family
2001 Mrs. Maureen Parker (voice)
- A Lesson Before Dying
1999 Tante Lou
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 Ondine Burdett
- Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
1999 Emily Lincoln
- Always Outnumbered
1998 Luvia
- Mama Flora's Family
1998 Mama Flora
- Hoodlum
1997 Stephanie St. Clair
- Ms. Scrooge
1997 Ms. Ebenita Scrooge
- Blessed Assurance
1997 Vesta Lotte Battle
- Riot
1997 Maggie
- Bridge of Time
1997 Guardian
- The Road to Galveston
1996 Jordan Roosevelt
- The Outer Limits
1995 Justice Gretchen Parkhurst
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994 Castralia
- Sweet Justice
1994 Carrie Grace Battle
- Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
1994 Castalia
- Touched by an Angel
1994 Abigail Peabody-Jackson
- House of Secrets
1993 Evangeline
- Duplicates
1992 Dr. Randolph
- When No One Would Listen
1992 Sarah
- Fried Green Tomatoes
1991 Sipsey
- Heat Wave
1990 Ruthana Richardson
- The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1990 Etta Mercer
- The Women of Brewster Place
1989 Mrs. Browne
- B.L. Stryker
1989
- The Women of Brewster Place
1989 Mrs. Browne
- Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
1986 Muriel
- Acceptable Risks
1986 Janet Framm
- Intimate Encounters
1986 Dr. Claire Dalton
- Playing with Fire
1985 Carol Phillips
- Benny's Place
1982 Odessa
- Bustin' Loose
1981 Vivian Perry
- The Marva Collins Story
1981 Marva Collins
- The Concorde... Airport '79
1979 Elaine
- King
1978 Coretta Scott King
- A Woman Called Moses
1978 Harriet Ross Tubman
- A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
1977 Sweets
- Wilma
1977 Blanche Rudolph
- Roots
1977 Binta
- The River Niger
1976 Mattie Williams
- The Blue Bird
1976 Tylette
- Just an Old Sweet Song
1976 Priscilla Simmons
- The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1974 Jane Pittman
- Sounder
1972 Rebecca Morgan
- Emergency!
1972 Mrs. Johnson
- Marriage: Year One
1971 Emma Teasley
- Neighbors
1971 Vicky Gunther
- The Bill Cosby Show
1969 Mildred Hermosa
- The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1969 Betty Kelly
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1968 Portia Copeland
- The Comedians
1967 Marie Therese
- Cowboy in Africa
1967 Julie Anderson
- A Man Called Adam
1966 Claudia Ferguson
- Mission: Impossible
1966 Alma Ross
- The F.B.I.
1965 Julie Harmon
- A Morning For Jimmy
1960 Sister
- Odds Against Tomorrow
1959 Jazz Club Bartender (uncredited)
- The Last Angry Man
1959 Girl Left on Porch (uncredited)
- Naked City
1958 Darlene Knox
- Carib Gold
1956 Dottie
- Gunsmoke
1955 Rachel Biggs
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 Marva Collins
