Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021, she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2022, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.
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🎬 Movies
Lisa Ann Walter: It Was an Accident
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2026
The Golden Girls: 40 Years of Laughter and Friendship - A Special Edition of 20/20
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2025
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
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2025
Ricky
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2025
The Fabulous Four
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2024
The Real Red Tails
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2024
Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love
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2023
The Young Wife
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2023
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4
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2022
Christmas in My Heart
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2021
Fashionably Yours
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2020
Forbidden
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2018
Step Sisters
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2018
Just Getting Started
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2017
Christmas in Compton
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2012
The Jennie Project
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2001
Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel
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2000
Deterrence
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2000
Jamaica Beat
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1997
Bogus
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1996
Lover's Knot
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1996
White Man's Burden
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1995
Witch Hunt
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1994
The Flintstones
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1994
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
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1993
The Distinguished Gentleman
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1992
Mistress
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1992
To Sleep with Anger
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1990
The Mighty Quinn
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1989
Oliver & Company
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1988
A Piece of the Action
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1977
Octet
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