Jill Scott
Actor
Biography
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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Filmography
Baggage Claim
as Gail Best 2013
Why Did I Get Married Too?
as Sheila 2010
Why Did I Get Married?
as Sheila 2007
Hounddog
as Big mma thorton 2008
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
as Self 2005
Love Beats Rhymes
as Professor Dixon 2017
Steel Magnolias
as Truvy 2012
With This Ring
as Viviane 2015
Black Panther
as Storm 2010
Outlaw Johnny Black
as Maw Belle 2023
Cavedweller
as Rosemary 2004
Flint
as Nayyirah Shariff 2017
Made in America
as Self 2013
Sins of the Mother
as Nona 2010
Highway to Heaven
as Angela Stewart 2021
Michael Jackson: The One
as Self 2004