Valarie Pettiford (born July 8, 1960) is an American stage and television actress, dancer, and jazz singer. She received a Tony nomination for her role in the broadway production Fosse . She is also known for her role as "Big Dee Dee" Thorne on the UPN sitcom Half & Half .
Loretta Devine (born August 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, best known for her roles as Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls , Marla Hendricks in the Fox drama series Boston Public , and for her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy , for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011. She had a role in the series Everybody Hates Chris as Rochelle's mother. In film, Devine appeared in Waiting to Exhale , The Preacher's Wife , Hoodlum , I Am Sam , Urban Legend , What Women Want , Kingdom Come , Crash , Woman Thou Art Loosed , Class Act , For Colored Girls , This Christmas , First Sunday , Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Jumping the Broom . She also played Cynthia Carmichael on the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show .
Vera Cudjoe (born 1928) is a Trinidadian-Canadian actress, producer, and educator. She founded Black Theatre Canada (BTC; 1973–1988), a youth and community-oriented institution which helped train and launch the career of numerous Black performers and artists in North America. Among the Theatre's legacies are Delroy Lindo , Arlene Duncan , Leon Bibb , Jackie Richardson , Joe Sealy , Tom Butler , Philip Akin , and ahdri zhina mandiela .
LisaRaye McCoy, Vivica A. Fox and their friend Kia Todd all took a vacation trip to Tulum, Mexico. Since their arrival, the women have been posting a
Jumping the Broom is a 2011 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Salim Akil and produced by Tracey E. Edmonds , Elizabeth Hunter, T.D. Jakes , Glendon Palmer, and Curtis Wallace.
T.D. Jakes recent and upcoming movie credits: Not Easily Broken (2009), Where a Man Stands (TBA), Miracles From Heaven (2016), Heaven Is For Real (2014), Jumping the Broom (2011), A Dog's Way Home (2019).
This show came into our lives in 2000 and allowed us backstage access to some of the most dramatic crimes and investigations known to the CBS network.