Suzzanne Douglas
Birthday: Born in 1957-04-12 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deathday: 2021-07-06
Suzzanne Douglas was an American film, television and stage actress, singer, composer, dancer, and producer, best known for her role as matriarch Jerri Peterson in the television sitcom "The Parent 'Hood". She held an MFA in Music from the Manhattan School of Music, New York.
TV Credits
Touched by an Angel
Character: Brianna Springbelt
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives....
The Cosby Show
Character: Rebecca Shorter
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Principal
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories....
The Parent 'Hood
Character: Jerri Peterson
The Parent 'Hood is an American sitcom that aired on The WB airing from January 18, 1995 to July 25, 1999. The series starred Robert Townsend and Suzzanne Douglas. Originally to have been titled Father Knows Nothing, the series was one of the four sitcoms that aired as part of the original Wednesday night two-hour lineup that helped launch The WB network....
The Parkers
Character:
The Parkers is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from August 30, 1999, to May 10, 2004. A spin-off of UPN's Moesha, The Parkers features the mother-daughter team of Nikki and Kim Parker. The Parkers' signature "Heeyyy" greeting became very popular in the early 2000s....
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Karen Watkins
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes....
Against the Law
Character:
Against the Law is an American dramedy television series that aired on the Fox network from September 23, 1990 to April 5, 1991. Starring Michael O'Keefe and Suzzanne Douglas, the 17 hour-long episodes centered on the brash Boston lawyer, Simon MacHeath, who left his job at a prestigious law firm to start his own defense practice....
Bones
Character: Elizabeth Burkhart
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless....
The Good Wife
Character: Judge Keely Farmer
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail....
Touched by an Angel
Character: Dr. Rebecca Dixon
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives....
When They See Us
Character: Grace Cuffee
Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park....
Great Performances
Character: Lady in Plaid / The Girl
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries....
Movie Credits
Jason's Lyric
Character: Gloria
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends....
Tap
Character: Amy Simms
Max Washington has just been released from prison after serving time for burglary. He returns to his old hangout, a hoofer club. His old girl friend, Amy, who still works at the club as a Tap instructor, is less than thrilled to see him. Her father, Little Mo, is happy to see him, because he has plans for a show involving Max. In addition, Max's old partners in crime have another job for him....
Search for Grace
Character: Margaret / Melody
A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927....
The Inkwell
Character: Brenda Tate
The Inkwell is about a 16-year-old boy coming of age on Martha's Vineyard in the summer of 1976....
The Colored Museum
Character: the Girl, the Lady in Plaid
Ten satirical sketches written by George C. Wolfe use drama, comedy and music to examine black stereotypes and express the need for African-Americans to preserve their culture by remembering their painful but glorious heritage. Presented as museum "exhibitions," the songs and sketches address the problem of having to renounce one's history and suppress anger in order to assimilate....
Sounder
Character: The Mother
This is a coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Depression era of the South. "Boy" (Daniel Lee Robertson III) learns the hard way about the realities of being black, poor and unable to read. But he also learns about the deep love of family, the long-suffering loyalty of a dog and the importance of words, faith, stories & truth....
Whitney
Character: Cissy Houston
Chronicles Whitney Houston's rise to fame and turbulent relationship with husband Bobby Brown....
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Character: Angela
Through good times and bad, Stella and Delilah have always had each other. Now, Stella's so busy building a life that she's forgotten how to really live. But Delilah is about to change all that. What starts as a quick trip to Jamaica, ends as an exhilarating voyage of self discovery as Stella learns to open her heart and find love – even if it's with a man 20 years her junior....
School of Rock
Character: Tomika's Mother
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing....
I'll Do Anything
Character: Rainbow House Star
Matt Hobbs is a talented but unsuccessful actor. When estranged (and strange) ex-wife Beth dumps their daughter Jeannie on Matt, father and daughter have a lot of adjusting to do. His budding relationship with attractive production assistant Cathy Breslow is made complicated, while the precocious child is overly accustomed to getting her own way. Matt eventually faces the choice of family vs career in a particularly difficult way....
It's Black Entertainment
Character: Self
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jon...
Condition: Critical
Character: Dr. Bailey Wallace
Medical drama about a killer virus on the loose in Los Angeles....
Chain of Desire
Character: Angie
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire....
Happy Yummy Chicken
Character: Sarah Del Casserole
Two men create a musical inspired by a news story of a woman sitting in a fried chicken restaurant for two months after a breakup....
Purlie
Character: Ensemble
Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld. It won two Tony Awards and was also nominated for Best Musical. This 1981 television adaptation is directed by Rudi Goldman and stars Broadway c...
Really Love
Character: Anne Richmond
A rising black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student....