Esther Rolle
Acting
Biography
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Known For
Acting History
2005
Train Ride
as Dean of Students
1998
Down in the Delta
as Annie Sinclair
1997
Rosewood
as Aunt Sarah
1996
My Fellow Americans
as Rita
Promised Land
TVas Mary Harding
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Aunt Pauline
Nobody's Girls: Five Women of the West
as Clara Brown
1994
Scarlett
TVas Mammy
Touched by an Angel
TVas Mary Harding
1993
House of Cards
as Adelle
To Dance with the White Dog
as Neelie
Message from Nam
as Queenie / Elizabeth McQueen
1992
Color Adjustment
as Self
1991
Cape Fear
as Woman Watching Cady Get Out from Under the Car (uncredited)
1990
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
as Esther Clayton
1989
A Raisin in the Sun
as Lena 'Mama' Younger
The Mighty Quinn
as Ubu Pearl
Driving Miss Daisy
as Idella
Age-Old Friends
as Mrs. Baker
1987
P.K. and the Kid
as Mim
1986
Ethnic Notions
as Narrator
1984
Finder of Lost Loves
TVas Nellie
Murder, She Wrote
TVas Margaret
1983
The Grand Baby
as Momma
1982
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
as Nurse
The New Odd Couple
TVas Ms. Gibbs
1981
See China and Die
as Momma Sykes
1979
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
as Momma
1978
Summer of My German Soldier
as Ruth
1976
Donny & Marie
TVas Self
1974
Good Times
TVas Florida Evans
1973
Cleopatra Jones
as Mrs. Johnson
Don't Play Us Cheap
as Miss Maybell
1972
Maude
TVas Florida Evans
1971
1967
Up the Down Staircase
as Teacher
1964
Nothing But a Man
as Church Woman
1962
To Kill a Mockingbird
as uncredited role