Loretta Devine

Born in Houston in 1949, actress Loretta Devine rose to fame on-stage in the original Broadway production of +Dreamgirls before parlaying her acclaim into a career in film and television. Her first major onscreen role came in 1987, when she was cast as a resident advisor on the Cosby Show-spin-off A Different World. Though she left the series after the first season, it was far from ...more