Diahann Carroll
- The Masked Saint
2016 Ms. Edna
- Peeples
2013 Nana Peeples
- The Front
2010 Nana
- At Risk
2010 Nana
- Diary of a Single Mom
2009 Therapist
- White Collar
2009 June
- Back to You
2007 Sandra Jenkins
- Grey's Anatomy
2005 Jane Burke
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004 (archive footage)
- Whoopi
2003 Viveca Rae
- Half & Half
2002 Grandma Ruth Thorne
- The Court
2002
- The Legend of Tarzan
2001 Queen La (voice)
- The Courage to Love
2000 Pouponne
- Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000 Betty Hemings
- Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000 Maria Cole
- Soul Food
2000 Aunt Ruthie
- Strong Medicine
2000 Eve Morton
- Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000 Betty Hemings
- Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1999 Sadie Delany
- Jackie's Back!
1999 Diahann Carroll
- Twice in a Lifetime
1999 Jael
- The Sweetest Gift
1998 Mrs. Wilson
- Eve's Bayou
1997 Elzora
- Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
1995 Narrator
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 Crow (voice)
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
1994 Lydia Bishop
- Touched by an Angel
1994 Grace Willis
- Burke's Law
1994 Grace Gibson
- Ellen
1994 Diahann Carroll
- The Five Heartbeats
1991 Eleanor Potter
- Sunday in Paris
1991 Vernetta Chase
- Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
1991 Vivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Murder in Black and White
1990 Margo Stover
- From the Dead of Night
1989 Maggie
- Joan Rivers and Friends Salute Heidi Abromowitz
1988 Diahann Carroll
- A Different World
1987 Marion Gilbert
- The Best of Broadway
1985 Herself
- The Colbys
1985
- Sister, Sister
1982 Carolyne Lovejoy
- Dynasty
1981 Dominique Devereaux
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1979 Vivian
- Roots: The Next Generations
1979 Zeona Haley
- The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978 Mermeia
- The Love Boat
1977 Roxy Blue
- Death Scream
1975 Betty May
- Claudine
1974 Claudine Price
- The Split
1968 Ellen "Ellie" Kennedy
- Julia
1968 Julia Baker
- Hurry Sundown
1967 Vivian Thurlow
- Paris Blues
1961 Connie Lampson
- Goodbye Again
1961 Nightclub Singer
- Porgy and Bess
1959 Clara
- Naked City
1958 Ruby Jay
- Peter Gunn
1958
- Carmen Jones
1954 Myrt
