Jill Scott
ActingAlso Known As
Jill Heather Scott
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jill Scott (singer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
(25 total)
Get On Up
as DeeDee Brown
Baggage Claim
as Gail Best
Why Did I Get Married?
as Sheila
Why Did I Get Married Too?
as Sheila
Hounddog
as Big mma thorton
Love Beats Rhymes
as Professor Dixon
Steel Magnolias
as Truvy
With This Ring
as Viviane
Black Panther
as Storm
Outlaw Johnny Black
as Maw Belle
Cavedweller
as Rosemary
Flint
as Nayyirah Shariff
Made in America
as Self
Highway to Heaven
as Angela Stewart
Sins of the Mother
as Nona
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
as Self - Performer
TV Shows
(21 total)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Janice Raleigh
Fringe
as Simone
Black Lightning
as Lady Eve
black-ish
as Yaya
Abbott Elementary
as Jill Scott
The View
as Self
The Oscars
as Self
Girlfriends
as Donna Williams
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
as Mma Precious Ramotswe
Black Panther
as Storm (voice)
Tamron Hall
as Self
First Wives Club
as Hazel Rachelle
The Reichen Show
as Self
The Weakest Link
as Self - Contestant
VERZUZ
as Self