Ella Joyce
Birth : 1954-06-12, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ella Joyce (born June 12, 1954) is an American actress.Joyce's television credits include the pilot for NewsRadio, and series regular "Eleanor Emerson" on Roc as well as the recurring role of "Jasmine" on My Wife & Kids.
She has received numerous awards, nominations, and accolades for her performances in the theater, including the New York AUDELCO and the NAACP Image Nomination (for theater and television). She is also a recipient of the Spirit Of Detroit Award from the Mayor's Office in 1998.
Joyce has a featured role as "The Nurse" in Don Coscarelli's 2003 film Bubba Ho-Tep.
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Helen
When a young woman returns home for the holidays, her meddling sister sets her up with a handsome football player online, but things might not be as they appear.
Rose
Carly Stewart is the queen of holiday celebrations, but her mistletoe misstep sends her running to a Holiday Hideaway that teaches her the importance of family, forgiveness, and fighting for love.
Mrs. Donna
Kevin and Jasmine who, as two teenagers with equal passion for each other's dreams - his love for football and hers for music - fall head over heels in love with each other but tragedy and one horrible lapse in judgment tears them apart. Many years later, Kevin (Long) and Jasmine (Boutte), have to trust one another after their paths cross again. Is their first love strong enough for them to save each other now?
Nurse Williams
A faithless man finds himself carrying the weight of the world until a divine experience changes his life and he cannot deny the power of God.
Edith
A young man's family torn apart by tragedy reaches out to begin rebuilding trust and seek healing by through the only thing that speaks through pain; the healing power of music.
Hollywont is an urban Entourage gone crazy! The film follows Davon, an aspiring African American screenwriter trying to make a name for himself in Hollywood. Sick and tired of Hollywood's portrayal of unrealistic urban films, Davon turns to a pimp named Tony to manage his career and help guide him in the right direction which may not be the best idea. Tony takes Davon on an outrageous adventure and Davon soon learns why Hollywood can sometimes mean Hollywont!
Clifton's Mom
The story of the late jazz musician and classical pianist Nina Simone including her rise to fame and relationship with her manager Clifton Henderson.
MelaniecJackson
On the day of her wedding, as Selena Jackson comes to terms with the long-lost love she's never quite gotten over, many of her guests, including her best friends and her own mother, also struggle with past loves, past regrets and past mistakes.
Bessie
After moving into a new house with his mom and soon to be father, Lawrence goes through some things. Six months after his mom and new "dad" marry. His mother dies. It isn't easy on Maise's Husband. He soon realizes that he could not deal with Lawrence and goes to a foster home to see if he can put him there. Lawrence has to stay for a few more days before he can leave. Over those days the husband realizes that Lawrence is a great kid.
Sarah
A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Carol
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.
Mrs. Myers
Earlene
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
Sister Watkins
Small-town girl Angie King leaves the church and her home to pursue a dream of singing stardom.
Mary
A struggling young artist meets a talented, and undiscovered songstress. Desperately seeking success, they both must face hard truths and contend with sacrifice on their individual paths to fame and along the way they find a love that teaches them what success is really all about.
Nancy Caulderbank
New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting with Crystal Meth. Unbeknown to them, town bad boy Randy Martin slips LSD in their drinks, setting into motion a night of life altering events which will leave one dead and the other forever scarred. The young couple leave the party and quickly begin to realize that they are not alone, or so they think. After a car accident the two run into the woods to escape their stalker, with no protection from the elements. Attempts to call for help are futile when they realize that their cell phone signal is lost. Alone in the woods with the delusions of being chased the couple slowly begin to turn on each other.
Mrs. Jenkins
An urban romantic comedy about a young San Diego policeman who travels to Los Angeles with his fiance to meet her dysfunctional family and announce their engagement.
Minister's wife
Cultural differences and racial boundaries collide in this powerful story of love between an Arabic Muslim man and an African-American Christian girl who strive to defy the odds. Facing disapproval from within their families and without, Shawn and Crystal must resolutely endure the hatred and bigotry that surrounds their romance in this Detroit-based drama of modern-day prejudice among minority groups.
The Nurse
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.
Juanita
A rare original movie offering from the UPN network, What About Your Friends: Weekend Get-Away focuses on three high school girls: aspiring singer Temple (Keshia Knight-Pulliam) and her lifelong friends Alex (Angell Conwell) and Breena (Monica McSwain). Attending a weekend college-scholarship retreat, the three heroines endeavor to gain financial support for their chosen academic fields. Along the way, Temple squares off against longtime rival Doreen (Alexis Fields), Alex is distracted by a handsome frat boy, and Breena tries to prove that she's a lot more mature than her hip-hop image.
Doodle Alderidge
After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison where her mother, whom she has never met, is also imprisoned. Before long, Treasure encounters Brownie, a lifer and gang leader. Brownie reveals that she is Treasure's mother, and takes the girl under her wing, protecting her from the dangers of hardcore prison life. But some women in Brownie's gang resent Treasure's presence, leading to violent conflict.
Waitress
The Old Settler is the story of two middle-aged sisters, Elizabeth and Quilly, who share an apartment in Harlem in 1943. The sisters quarrel amiably, but they share a wounded history that becomes revealed as the tale unfolds. An earnest but unworldly young man named Husband travels up from the South to board with the sisters while he searches for his beloved Lou Bessie, who left their small town a few years back to find a new life. Husband would like to bring Lou Bessie back home, but she's enamored with the excitement of the city, and her plans are more complicated. In time, Elizabeth and Husband begin a courtship that may or may not overcome their considerable age difference, while Quilly reacts disapprovingly.
Sonya Brignone
Two women embark on a bank heist. Then one double-crosses the other. Revenge-minded shenanigans ensue.
Attorney Ross
A blacksploitation parody said to inspire "helpless, baffled laughter".
Dr. Solomon
Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. When Richard’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident, the lovers are accused of murder.
Betty Webb
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.
Detective Waller
Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin to change and their suspicions of each other increase on the way to a climactic robbery.
McCabe
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.