Jill Scott
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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Acting
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Janice Raleigh
1999
TV
Fringe
as Simone
2008
TV
Black Lightning
as Lady Eve
2018
Movie
Get On Up
as DeeDee Brown
2014
TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
TV
black-ish
as Yaya
2014
TV
Abbott Elementary
as Jill Scott
2021
Movie
Baggage Claim
as Gail Best
2013
TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
Movie
Why Did I Get Married Too?
as Sheila
2010
Movie
Why Did I Get Married?
as Sheila
2007
Movie
Hounddog
as Big mma thorton
2008
Movie
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
as Self
2005
TV
The View
as Self
1997
TV
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Movie
Love Beats Rhymes
as Professor Dixon
2017
TV
The Oscars
as Self
1953
Movie
Steel Magnolias
as Truvy
2012
Movie
With This Ring
as Viviane
2015
TV
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
TV
Girlfriends
as Donna Williams
2000
Movie
Outlaw Johnny Black
as Maw Belle
2023
Movie
Black Panther
as Storm
2010
TV
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
as Mma Precious Ramotswe
2009