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Jill Scott

Jill Scott

Birthday: 1972-04-04 | Place of Birth: 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 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Highway to Heaven

as    Angela Stewart

2019
First Wives Club

as    Hazel Rachelle

2017
Flint

as    Nayyirah Shariff

2017
Love Beats Rhymes

as    Professor Dixon

2016
2015
With This Ring

as    Viviane

2014
Get On Up

as    DeeDee Brown

2013
Baggage Claim

as    Gail Best

2013
Made in America

as    Self

2012
Steel Magnolias

as    Truvy

2010
Sins of the Mother

as    Nona

2010
Why Did I Get Married Too?

as    Sheila

2010
Black Panther

as    Storm

2010
Black Panther

as    Storm (voice)

2009
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

as    Mma Precious Ramotswe

2008
Hounddog

as    Big mma thorton

2007
Why Did I Get Married?

as    Sheila

2004
Cavedweller

as    Rosemary

1
Cowgirl's Last Ride

as    Cali

1
Why Did I Get Married Again?

as    Sheila