S. Epatha Merkerson

2025

Eye for an Eye

as May

4.7

2024

We Grown Now

as Anita

6.8

2020

Blood Sugar Rising

as Narrator (voice)

7.9

2016

Year by the Sea

as Liz

5.5

2015

Chicago Med

as Sharon Goodwin

7.6

2015

The Challenger

as Jada

5.5

2014

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

as Self

8.5

2014

The Gabby Douglas Story

as Miss Caroline

6.9

2013

Peeples

as Daphne Peeples

5.4

2009

Mother and Child

as Ada

7.2

2009

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

as Effa

5.1

2008

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

as Narrator (voice)

7.9

2007

Girl, Positive

as Ariel Winters

6.5

2007

Slipstream

as Bonnie

4.8

2006

Black Snake Moan

as Angela

6.9

2005

Lackawanna Blues

as Rachel 'Nanny' Crosby

7.8

2004

Jersey Girl

as Doctor #1

6.2

2003

Radio

as Maggie

6.9

2001

The Rising Place

as Lessie Watson

6.4

1999

Random Hearts

as Nea

5.4

1998

Exiled

as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren

6.5

1996

After the SIlence

as Barbara

6.9

1995

A Mother's Prayer

as Ruby

6.6

1994

A Place for Annie

as Alice

7.3

1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

as Tarissa Dyson

8.6

1990

Jacob's Ladder

as Elsa

7.4

1990

Navy Seals

as Jolena

5.6

1990

Loose Cannons

as Rachel

4.9

1988

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

as Reba

7.8

1986

Pee-wee's Playhouse

as Reba

8.2

1986

She's Gotta Have It

as Doctor Jamison

6.8