Life in Film: Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine is a woman who knows how to mix it up.

She's Always Scheming On Her Next Move - We all criged at all of Cece's plots to sabatage Mary Jane's life during season 3 of "Being Mary Jane."(Photo: BET)

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She's Always Scheming On Her Next Move - We all criged at all of Cece's plots to sabatage Mary Jane's life during season 3 of "Being Mary Jane."(Photo: BET)

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Meet Mama Carmichael - From 2015 to 2017, Jerrod Carmichael reinvented "Good Times" without the laugh track and gave us "The Carmichael Show," where Loretta Devine stars as Cynthia Carmichael. (Photo: Ben Cohen/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

She Was Our Favorite Patient  - Lorretta Devine was our favorite patient to help care for on "Greys Antomy."(Photo: ABC)

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She Was Our Favorite Patient - In 2010, Loretta Devine was our favorite patient to help care for on Grey's Anatomy. The guest role earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. (Photo: ABC)

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One Of Our Favorite Christmas Movies - Loretta Devine stared in out of our favorite holiday movies "Christmas." We were here for all of the magic she created on screen with her sweet Lorretta self.(Photo: WENN.com)

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One Of Our Favorite Christmas Movies - In 2007, Loretta Devine starred in out of our favorite holiday movies, "This Christmas," as Ma'Dere Whitfield. Since then, she has appeared in many Christmas films, including last year's All I Didn't Want for Christmas. (Photo: WENN.com)

We Were All "Waiting To Exhale"  - Remeber running into the family room and seeing your grandma, antie and mom watching "Waiting To Exhale" directed by Forest Whitaker? Well our Girl Ms. Devine was in that movie was well. FOREST WHITAKER --- (Photo: Frank Trapper/Sygma/Corbis)

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We Were All "Waiting To Exhale" - Arguably the movie that took her career into the stratosphere was 1995's Waiting To Exhale, directed by Forest Whitaker. Ms. Devine as Gloria was cinematic gold. (Photo: Frank Trapper/Sygma/Corbis)

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Mr. Loretta Was A Gangstar - Remeber that time when Loretta Devine stared in one of our favorite film "Urban Legend" way back in 1998. (Photo: WENN.com)

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Mr. Loretta Was A Gangstar - Remember that time when Loretta Devine starred in one of our favorite films "Urban Legend" way back in 1998. (Photo: WENN.com)

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"Woman Thou Art Loose" - "Woman Thou Art Loose" was the original #blackgirlmagic film and we were here for all of it, as we watched Loretta and her girls walk through life issues.(Photo: Richard Cartwright / ABC / Retna Ltd. via Corbis)

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"Woman Thou Art Loose" - "Woman Thou Art Loose" was the original #blackgirlmagic film and we were here for all of it, as we watched Loretta and her girls walk through life issues.(Photo: Richard Cartwright / ABC / Retna Ltd. via Corbis)