Acting

Lisa Nicole Carson

Born July 12, 1969 · New York City, New York, USA (age 57)

Carson was born in Brooklyn, New York; her father is a journalism professor at the University of Florida, and her mother was a kindergarten teacher in New York. She spent her adolescence in Gainesville, Florida and attended F. W. Buchholz High School. Her parents separated when she was 14, and her mother moved back to New York alone. In 1986, she entered the Regional competition sponsored by the "…

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Life

MovieComedyCrime

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress · 1995

Devil in a Blue Dress

MovieThrillerCrime

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou · 1997

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Love Jones

Love Jones · 1997

MovieComedyDrama

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Jason's Lyric

Jason's Lyric · 1994

MovieCrimeDrama

The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.

White Lies

White Lies · 1997

MovieComedyRomance

A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.

Divas

MovieDramaMusic

Members of an all-female black singing group learn about the industry and themselves in their rise to success.

Let's Get Bizzee

Let's Get Bizzee · 1993

Let's Get Bizzee

High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.

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Life

MovieComedyCrime

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Sylvia

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress · 1995

Devil in a Blue Dress

MovieThrillerCrime

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Coretta James

Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou · 1997

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Matty Mereaux

Love Jones

Love Jones · 1997

MovieComedyDrama

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friends, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.

Josie Nichols

Jason's Lyric

Jason's Lyric · 1994

MovieCrimeDrama

The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.

Marti

White Lies

White Lies · 1997

MovieComedyRomance

A museum worker pretends to be an artist in order to impress women. When an attractive assistant director of a SoHo art gallery overhears him, she offers to exhibit his work. He plays along, which leads to a series of complications following his newfound double life. He starts falling in love with the assistant director, but her art critic fiancé grows suspicious.

Glinda

Divas

MovieDramaMusic

Members of an all-female black singing group learn about the industry and themselves in their rise to success.

Jewel

Let's Get Bizzee

Let's Get Bizzee · 1993

Let's Get Bizzee

High school student Sam decides to run for office when a corrupt politician threatens to close down the housing project where his mother lives.

Cheryl

Law & Order

Law & Order · 1990

SeriesCrimeDrama

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 office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Jasmine

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.

Carla Reece

Ally McBeal

Ally McBeal · 1997

SeriesDramaComedy

Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

Renée Raddick

Harry's Law

Harry's Law · 2011

SeriesComedyDrama

Harriet, Matthew and Malcolm couldn't be any more different, but when they cross paths, they realize they're all looking for a fresh start. The most unlikely of people are starting a law practice in the most unlikely of places -- a rundown shoe store.

Renee Raddick

The Chris Rock Show

The Chris Rock Show · 1997

The Chris Rock Show

The Chris Rock Show is a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program in 1999. It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2000.

Cosby

SeriesComedyFamily

Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.

Damon

Two brothers, one a bachelor and undercover detective, the other a married rent-a-cop are reunited in Chicago. Things come easily to Damon Thomas, a clever, but incorrect undercover cop.

Lt. Byrne (uncredited)

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York · 1999

Aftershock: Earthquake in New York

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Without warning, an earthquake rips through the "City That Never Sleeps," turning it into a vulnerable state of chaos: skyscrapers topple, subways are buried in the rubble, countless lives are lost and loved ones are torn apart. As turmoil reigns in the screaming streets, Mayor Bruce Lincoln and former Fire Chief Thomas Ahearn race against time to enact a city-wide emergency plan.

Evie Lincoln