| Betty Shabazz in Malcolm X |
| Rhonda in Passion Fish |
| Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It |
| Lornette 'Mace' Mason in Strange Days |
| Rita in Vampire in Brooklyn |
| Bernadine in Waiting to Exhale |
| Stella Payne in How Stella Got Her Groove Back |
| Dr. Kaela Evers in Supernova |
| Groove in Whispers: An Elephant's Tale |
| Lena in Boesman and Lena |
| Diane in The Score |
| Desiree Perry in Sunshine State |
| Mo in Mr. 3000 |
| Reader in Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives |
| Dr. Elizabeth Chase in The Lazarus Child |
| Mildred in Meet the Robinsons |
| Tanya in Akeelah and the Bee |
| Sarah Malcolm in Gospel Hill |
| Rieta Cole in Of Boys and Men |
| Brenda in Meet the Browns |
| Bonnie Benjamin in Nothing But the Truth |
| Narrator in Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy |
| Lady Bayford in Damsel |
| Aretha Cobbs in Black Nativity |
| Daisy Bates in Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock |
| Mrs. Watson in Jumping the Broom |
| 16080 in We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama |
| 16080 in Getting Happy |
| Dr. Thaler in White Bird in a Blizzard |
| Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs in Olympus Has Fallen |
| Lynne Jacobs in London Has Fallen |
| Carol Walker in Otherhood |
| Miss Helen in Chi-Raq |
| Sister Helley in Wendell & Wild |
| Dawn in Passion Fish |