Lorraine Toussaint

AKA: Lorraine Tousaint, لورین توسان
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1960-04-04

Trinidad, British West Indies

Biography

Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-American actress and producer. She began her career in theatre before supporting performances in films such as Breaking In, Hudson Hawk, and Dangerous Minds.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {98}

Beth

1993-03-19 6.2

Point of No Return

Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be e ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Irene Roberts

1995-08-11 6.979

Dangerous Minds

Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must ...
Genre :Drama

Shameeka Webb

1996-09-11 6.7

If These Walls Could Talk

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Kim Garfield

1998-01-04 5.9

Blackout Effect

There has been a mid-air collision involving a passenger jet and a cargo flight, killing everyone aboard the two planes. The NTSB investigator in charge, whose girlfriend died in the crash, is puzzled ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Stendah

1983-03-20 1

The Face of Rage

Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concent ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Queen Valerin (voice)

2023-06-23 7.863

Nimona

A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence. ...
Genre :Animation, Family, Action, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

Flo Ayers

2009-04-24 6.702

The Soloist

A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper. ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Pearl Stone

2005-03-06 5.5

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Ruth

2012-10-12 6

Middle of Nowhere

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discov ...
Genre :Drama

Carol Broker

1998-07-09 5.4

Jaded

When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned than just a party-and she's central to the action. ...
Genre :Drama

Pat Bowden

1986-04-09 0

A Case of Deadly Force

Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Crime

Dr. Sherman

2014-04-19 5.6

Ask Me Anything

Beautiful, wild, funny, and lost, Katie Kampenfelt takes a year off before college to find herself, all the while chronicling her adventures in an anonymous blog into which she pours her innermost sec ...
Genre :Drama

Lieutenant Sondra Washington

1995-11-21 9.8

It Was Him or Us

When her daughter's lover begins exhibiting signs of becoming a dangerous abuser, a mother attempts to intervene. ...
Genre :Drama

Sarah

1993-04-12 4.1

Class of '61

Three West Point 1861 generation cadets and friends go on opposite sides after the breakout of The Civil War, with tragic consequences. A subplot involves Lucius, a Shelby Peyton's slave, who kills a ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama, TV Movie

Alva Debnam

1990-03-25 10

Common Ground

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Amelia Boynton

2014-12-25 7.39

Selma

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately ...
Genre :History, Drama

Judge Consuelo Marshall

1996-02-21 1

The Making of a Hollywood Madam

The real-life California family doctor -- facing a jail sentence for money laundering and tax evasion -- recalls the events leading to the arrest of his notorious daughter, Hollywood madam Heidi Flei ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Mrs. Roberts

2015-11-20 6.1

The Night Before

In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to a ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

Delphine the Hooker

1989-10-13 5.7

Breaking In

Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Janie

2001-06-07 8

The Sky is Falling

A young woman, struggling to become a novelist, has her life go into a tailspin. Her first novel is rejected, her non-committal boy friend decides to take a powder, her best friend moves to Mexico for ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Enid Sheperd

1995-09-22 3.8

Bleeding Hearts

An ill-fated, tender romance between an adult white male tutor and his 17-year-old African-American female student. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Salome Whitmore

2016-01-27 6.7

Sophie and the Rising Sun

In a small Southern town in the autumn of 1941, Sophie’s lonely life is transformed when an Asian man arrives under mysterious circumstances. Their love affair becomes the lightning rod for long-burie ...
Genre :Drama

Nichelle

2017-12-01 5.6

Love Beats Rhymes

A young woman dreams of making it big in the world of hip hop, but her parents demand that she finish her university degree. She dutifully agrees to complete her education, but her spoken word proves ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Mama Turner

1996-12-14 5.3

The Cherokee Kid

Isaih Turner didn’t want to be a hero-all he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were cruelly murdered by the wealthy and powerful Cyrus Bloomington, the young Isaiah grew up with one a ...
Genre :Western, Action, Comedy, Family, TV Movie

Gertrude

2024-05-10 9.5

Hamlet

From The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, experience this Shakespearean classic directed by Tony Award winner Kenny Leon featuring Tony Award nom ...
Genre :Drama

Robert’s Associate

1993-10-01 5.3

Mother's Boys

Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Rashida Remington (voice)

2024-06-06 7.8

Big City Greens the Movie: Spacecation

When thrill-seeker Cricket tricks his family into taking a "road trip" in space, chaos in the cosmos quickly ensues. Despite growing frustrations between Cricket and his dad, Bill, the two must learn ...
Genre :Animation, Family, Comedy, Music, TV Movie

Avery

1998-05-01 6.4

Black Dog

An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family. ...
Genre :Action

Philomena (segment "The Reunion")

1996-02-17 6.5

America's Dream

Made especially for the HBO cable network, this well-wrought feature is comprised of three short stories by three noted black American authors, each of which is directed by a respected black director. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Naomi Holloway

2015-06-12 10

Runaway Island

A group of troubled strangers looking to escape their woes end up sharing a transformational experience on an island steeped in African-American heritage and culture. ...
Genre :Drama

Florence Crawford

1993-03-14 6

Sad Inheritance

After filling her life with addictions, Christina (Susan Dey) is left with a dead-end job, a deadbeat boyfriend and a bad rapport with her mother (Piper Laurie). The last thing she needs is a baby, a ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Bo

2019-03-29 5.928

Fast Color

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home. ...
Genre :Thriller, Science Fiction

Lorraine Toussaint

2017-07-21 6.842

Girls Trip

Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterhood. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Adventure

Almond Joy

1991-05-23 5.704

Hudson Hawk

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal som ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Comedy

Flo Kennedy

2020-12-18 6.5

The Glorias

An equal rights crusader, journalist and activist: Gloria Steinem embodies these and more. From her role in the revolutionary women's rights movement to her travels throughout the U.S. and around the ...
Genre :Drama

Nessi

2020-09-13 6

Concrete Cowboy

Sent to live with his estranged father for the summer, a rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of Black cowboys. ...
Genre :Drama, Western

Lou Lou

2019-08-08 6.494

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bell ...
Genre :Horror, Adventure, Mystery

Donna

2019-04-24 6.4

Sprinter

Sprinter tells the story of Akeem Sharp who is set to be Jamaica's next big track-and-field sensation. Akeem hopes to rise in the track and field world will take him to the U.S. to reunite him with hi ...
Genre :Drama

Wanda

0

Silent Retreat

The story centers on a man and woman with relationship issues who decide to go on a meditation retreat that requires absolute silence for three days along with the man's best friend and recently widow ...
Genre :Comedy

1994-04-08 10

A Time to Heal

A paralyzed mother recovers from a stroke during childbirth with care from her husband. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dealey

1996-06-01 5.6

Nightjohn

John is a man of many talents, including one forbidden skill: he can read. When he teaches a young slave girl named Sarny to read and write, she learns an unforgettable lesson about the power of words ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sharon

2020-07-08 0

The Line

A new documentary play crafted from firsthand interviews with New York City medical first responders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Line cuts through the media and political noise to reveal the liv ...
Genre :Drama

Nancy Goodpaster

1992-05-03 0

Trial: The Price of Passion

Down-on-his-luck lawyer Warren Blackburn defends wealthy Texan Johnnie Faye Boudreau, who is accused of murdering her husband. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

(voice)

2020-06-19 1

Unladylike2020

Upending expectations and challenging the definition of womanhood, these “first women” found themselves at the forefront of progressive movements, organizing campaigns and leading paths to cultural ch ...
Genre :Documentary

God (voice)

2018-10-12 0

Anne Frank Meets God

Based on a poem by a WWII vet, Anne Frank Meets God is a haunting film set in one of the darkest moments in human history. It explores the unanswered questions that arise in the face of tragedy and in ...
Genre :Drama

0

The Spittin' Image

A man looks back at his childhood and his relationship with his grandfather. ...
Genre :Drama

Carina Wright

2003-09-18 6

Threat Matrix

Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of thi ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

1996-09-21 7.4

Dark Skies

Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode. The success of The X-Files on Fox ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Shambala Green

1990-09-13 7.398

Law & Order

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Medical Examiner

2005-01-23 7

Numb3rs

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide r ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cynthia James

2000-10-06 7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Franklin (voice)

2000-09-23 8.1

Static Shock

An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Kids

Eileen Stayman

1999-09-19 7.512

Judging Amy

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge ...
Genre :Drama

1985-09-14 6.7

227

A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

1993-03-05 8

Where I Live

Where I Live is an American sitcom that premiered in 1993 as part of ABC's TGIF lineup. The series was created and executive produced by Michael Jacobs and Ehrich Van Lowe. ...
Genre :Comedy

Viola 'Vi' Marsette

2021-02-07 7.3

The Equalizer

Robyn McCall, an enigmatic former CIA operative with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Rene Jackson

1998-08-18 7.4

Any Day Now

Any Day Now is an American drama series that aired on the Lifetime network from 1998 to 2002. The show stars Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint as best friends of different races who grew up in Birmin ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Nurse

1993-09-16 7.685

Frasier

After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty. ...
Genre :Comedy, Family

Bird Merriweather

2006-10-03 8

Friday Night Lights

The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything. ...
Genre :Drama

Yoga

2006-09-28 6.4

Ugly Betty

Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade Publishing Corporation. The fact that she isn’t traditiona ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Yolanda

1994-09-19 7.8

ER

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. ...
Genre :Drama

1996-09-20 5

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Two globetrotting spies with different styles team up. Posing as husband and wife, they guard their true identities at all costs from the bad guys‒and from each other. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Kate Perry

2007-07-23 7.6

Saving Grace

Grace Hanadarko is a tormented, fast-living Oklahoma City police detective who, despite having an excellent career in solving crimes, takes self-destruction to new heights. After seeing tremendous tra ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

2009-10-04 7.1

Three Rivers

Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in the role of an infamous transplant surgeon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On Nove ...
Genre :Drama

Judge Sarah LeBlanc

2020-12-06 8.079

Your Honor

New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Dr. Claudia Chan

1997-04-12 0

Leaving L.A.

Leaving L.A. is an American drama television series that aired from April 12 until June 14, 1997. The series was drama with dark comedic elements about the morbidly merry crew working in the L.A. Coun ...
Genre :Drama

1995-04-01 0

Amazing Grace

Genre :

1997-09-27 6.8

C-16: FBI

​This series revolves around the Los Angeles field office of the FBI that was assigned to the most difficult cases. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

0

The Line

The Line is a CBS drama pilot starring Dylan Walsh as an ATF agent who hunts down the most dangerous criminals. The series was not picked up. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1995-09-11 0

Bless This House

Bless This House is an American CBS sitcom which starred Andrew Dice Clay and Cathy Moriarty. ...
Genre :Comedy

1988-09-01 7.5

Sidewalks Entertainment

Sidewalks Entertainment is a long-running, weekly American television series that is a combination of a talk show, magazine show and variety show featuring celebrity interviews, music, artistic and no ...
Genre :Talk

La Bruja

2012-01-12 7

The Finder

Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable. ...
Genre :Drama

1992-06-18 7.5

Bodies of Evidence

Bodies of Evidence is a police drama that aired on CBS from June 1992 to May 1993. It stars Lee Horsley and George Clooney as Los Angeles homicide detectives. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lt. Joanne Reece

2014-09-22 7.817

Forever

Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Yvonne 'Vee' Parker

2013-07-11 7.656

Orange Is the New Black

A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Dr. Chanel Cory

1989-09-21 5.5

Nasty Boys

The Nasty Boys is a television action drama series based on the real life Narcotics Officers of the North Las Vegas Police Department. ...
Genre :Drama

Dana Adams

2013-06-03 7.5

The Fosters

Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and t ...
Genre :Drama

Shambala Green

2014-01-08 8.414

Chicago P.D.

A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Dr. Lullah (voice)

2025-01-01 6.5

StuGo

Six middle schoolers are tricked into attending a fake academic summer camp by a mad scientist. Now they’re stuck for three months on a wild tropical island with mind-reading manatees, giant fighting ...
Genre :Kids, Animation

Donna Rosewood

2015-09-23 6.5

Rosewood

Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. is a brilliant private pathologist who uses wildly sophisticated technology and his drive to live life to the fullest to help a tough-as-nails detective and the Miami PD unc ...
Genre :Drama

Officer Edie

2011-07-31 6.6

Against the Wall

This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Nancy Drake

2012-04-05 7.153

Scandal

Everyone has secrets and Olivia Pope has dedicated her life to protecting and defending the public images of the elite by keeping those secrets under wraps. Pope and her team are at the top of their g ...
Genre :Drama

Patricia Davis

2019-03-19 7.5

The Village

Welcome to the Village, an apartment building in Brooklyn that appears like any other from the outside but is quite unique inside. The people who reside here have built a bonded family of friends and ...
Genre :Drama

Shadow Weaver (voice)

2018-11-13 8.5

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

In this reboot of the '80s series, a magic sword transforms an orphan girl into warrior She-Ra, who unites a rebellion to fight against evil. ...
Genre :Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Margaret Stratton

1995-09-20 7.8

Murder One

Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder ...
Genre :Drama

Remy’s Mother (voice)

2018-06-18 7.3

Big City Greens

The offbeat adventures of 10-year-old Cricket Green, a mischievous and optimistic country boy who moves to the big city with his wildly out of place family – older sister Tilly, father Bill and Gramma ...
Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy

Emily Ghost (voice)

2018-07-07 7.9

Summer Camp Island

Oscar and Hedgehog are dropped off at a strange summer camp, full of fantastical things ranging from magical camp counselors to sticky notes that are portals to other dimensions. ...
Genre :Animation, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery

Député D.A. Powell

2005-06-13 7.9

The Closer

Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson transfers from Atlanta to LA to head up a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Johnson's quirky personality and hard-nos ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Donna Wolfson

2003-09-23 7.6

NCIS

From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of r ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Action & Adventure

Helen Fincher

2005-03-27 8.219

Grey's Anatomy

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. ...
Genre :Drama

Almaviligerais

2014-09-24 7.2

black-ish

A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood. ...
Genre :Comedy

Rebecca

2015-05-08 7.7

Grace and Frankie

Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Toge ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Catherine Lancaster

2025-05-29 7.1

The Better Sister

Chloe moves in New York's most elite circles with her lawyer husband Adam and teenage son Ethan by her side while her estranged sister Nicky tries to make ends meet and stay clean. When Adam is brutal ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Nia Rogers

2017-02-19 7.571

The Good Fight

Picking up one year after the events of the final broadcast episode of "The Good Wife", an enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell, while simultaneously wi ...
Genre :Drama

Marvella Magnificent (voice)

2019-05-10 0

Vernon and Gus

Two friends, Vernon and Gus moved to Portland to start their new lives, but this town is full of chaos and everything, could they handle it? ...
Genre :

Elaine Duchamps

2001-09-24 7.2

Crossing Jordan

Crossing Jordan is an American television crime/drama series that stars Jill Hennessy as Jordan Cavanaugh, M.D., a crime-solving forensic pathologist employed in the Massachusetts Office of the Chief ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

2003-02-02 0

This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys

Celebrate the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the G ...
Genre :Documentary

NSA Agent Hodges

2003-09-18 6

Threat Matrix

Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of thi ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure