Jill Scott
Biography
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.
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Full filmography
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) as Janice Raleigh
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- Fringe (2008) as Simone
- The View (1997) as Self
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)
- black-ish (2014) as Yaya
- Abbott Elementary (2021) as Jill Scott
- The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003) as Self
- Tamron Hall (2019) as Self
- Black Lightning (2018) as Lady Eve
- The Oscars (1953) as Self
- Girlfriends (2000) as Donna Williams
- The Reichen Show (2005) as Self
- The Weakest Link (2021) as Self - Contestant
- Blankety Blank (2021) as Self - Panellist
- VERZUZ (2020) as Self
- The Chris Rock Show (1997)
- First Wives Club (2019) as Hazel Rachelle
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (2009) as Mma Precious Ramotswe
- Hounddog (2008) as Big mma thorton
- Football Fantastics (2025) as Jill Scott
- Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010) as Sheila
- Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2 as Self