Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | NYPD Blue | Woman | Episode: "Moby Greg" |
| New York Undercover | Mrs. Stapleton | Episode: "Smack is Back" | |
| 1998 | Pentagon Wars, TheThe Pentagon Wars | Platoon Sgt. Fanning | |
| Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | ||
| 2000 | Judging Amy | Celeste | Episode: "Blast from the Past" |
| City of Angels | Nurse Lynnette Peeler | 19 episodes | |
| 2001 | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | |
| Providence | Dr. Eleanor Weiss | Episode: "You Can Count On Me" | |
| Guardian, TheThe Guardian | Attorney Suzanna Clemons | Episode: "The Men from the Boys" | |
| Third Watch | Margo Rodriguez | Episode: "Act Brave" | |
| 2002 | Father Lefty | ||
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Terry Randolph | Episode: "Badge" | |
| Division, TheThe Division | Dr. Georgia Davis | Episode: "Remembrance" | |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Attorney Campbell | Episode: "The Execution of Catherine Willows" | |
| 2003 | Hack | Stevie Morgan | Episode: "Third Strike" |
| Practice, TheThe Practice | Aisha Crenshaw | Episode: "We the People" | |
| 2004 | Century City | Hannah Crane | 9 episodes |
| 2005 | Jesse Stone: Stone Cold | Molly Crane | |
| Threshold | Victoria Rossi | Episode: "Shock" | |
| 2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | |
| Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | ||
| Without a Trace | Audrey Williams | Episode: "White Balance" | |
| Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | ||
| 2007 | Fort Pit | ||
| Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | ||
| Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 8 episodes | |
| 2008 | Brothers & Sisters | Ellen Snyder | Episode: "Double Negative" |
| Andromeda Strain, TheThe Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | ||
| 2003–08 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Donna Emmett | 7 episodes from 2003 until 2008 |
| 2009 | United States of Tara | Lynda P Frazier | Nominated — NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series |
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)