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Jumping The Broom Angela Bassett & Loretta Devine on tradition & marriage

(BlackTree TV - Los Angeles) Equally at home on stage or on screen, award-winning actress LORETTA DEVINE (Pamela Taylor) has created some of the most memorable roles in theater, film and television. Devine first captured national attention in the role of Lorrell, one of the three original "Dreamgirls" in Michael Bennett's award-winning Broadway musical. She followed that performance with a fiery portrayal of Lillian in Bob Fosse's critically acclaimed stage production "Big Deal." Subsequent work in George C. Wolfe's "Colored Museum" and "Lady Day at Emerson Bar and Grill" cemented Devine's status as one of the most talented and versatile stage actresses. Film roles soon followed, including a poignant turn as a single mother opposite Whitney Houston, Angela Bassett and Gregory Hines in Waiting to Exhale, which earned her an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress. Devine also won an NAACP Image Award for Best Supporting Actress for her work in Penny Marshall's The Preacher's Wife. Devine also received an IFP "Spirit" Award nomination for her role in Woman Thou Art Loosed. She was featured in the Academy Award®-winning film Crash and the hit movie version of Dreamgirls. Additional film credits include the successful Urban Legend franchise; I Am Sam, opposite Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Penn; Kingdom Come; What Women Want; Punks; Hoodlums; Down in the Delta and Stanley and Iris. Devine also appeared in Sticky Fingers, Amos and Andrew, The Breaks, The Price of Kissing ...

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