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Jill Scott
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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 platin…
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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.
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2026
Why Did I Get Married Again?
Movie Sheila
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2025
Ella
Movie Ella
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2025
Football Fantastics
TV show Jill Scott
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2023
Outlaw Johnny Black
Movie Maw Belle
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2022
Inventing the Christmas Prince
Movie Production Design
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2021
The Weakest Link
TV show Self - Contestant
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2021
Abbott Elementary
TV show Jill Scott
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2021
Highway to Heaven
Movie Angela Stewart
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2021
Blankety Blank
TV show Self - Panellist
- 2020
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2020
VERZUZ
TV show Self
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2019
First Wives Club
TV show Hazel Rachelle
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2019
Tamron Hall
TV show Self
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2018
Homegrown Christmas
Movie Production Design
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2018
Black Lightning
TV show Lady Eve
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2017
Love Beats Rhymes
Movie Professor Dixon
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2017
Flint
Movie Nayyirah Shariff
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2016
BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
Movie Self - Performer
- 2015
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2015
With This Ring
Movie Viviane
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2014
black-ish
TV show Yaya
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2014
Get On Up
Movie DeeDee Brown
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self - Guest
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2013
Made in America
Movie Self
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2013
Baggage Claim
Movie Gail Best
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2012
Steel Magnolias
Movie Truvy
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2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?
Movie Sheila
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2010
Sins of the Mother
Movie Nona
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2010
Black Panther
Movie Storm
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2010
Black Panther
TV show Storm (voice)
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2009
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
TV show Mma Precious Ramotswe
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2008
Hounddog
Movie Big mma thorton
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2008
Fringe
TV show Simone
- 2008
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2007
Why Did I Get Married?
Movie Sheila
- 2006
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2005
The Reichen Show
TV show Self
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2005
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
Movie Self
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2004
Cavedweller
Movie Rosemary
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2004
Michael Jackson: The One
Movie Self
