
Acting
Jill Scott
EN cinema · 29 credits
Born
4 April 1972 (age 54)
Birthplace
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Also known as Jill Heather Scott
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.
Known for
Filmography
Mahalia!
Mahalia!
as Mahalia Jackson

Outlaw Johnny Black
as Maw Belle

Inventing the Christmas Prince
Production Design

Highway to Heaven
as Angela Stewart, Executive Producer

Homegrown Christmas
Production Design

Love Beats Rhymes
as Professor Dixon

Flint
as Nayyirah Shariff

BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration
as Self - Performer

With This Ring
as Viviane

Get On Up
as DeeDee Brown

Baggage Claim
as Gail Best

Made in America
as Self

Steel Magnolias
as Truvy

Black Panther
as Storm

Hounddog
as Big mma thorton

Why Did I Get Married?
as Sheila

Cavedweller
as Rosemary











