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Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Highest Rated: 95% Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024)
Lowest Rated: Not Available
Birthday: Feb 21, 1969
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Aunjanue Ellis may not be a household name in Hollywood, but her face and performances as a versatile character actress left a lasting impression on audiences. From a special agent on "The Mentalist" (CBS 2008-15) to a bitter backup singer in the biopic "Ray" (2004) and a housemaid in 1960s Mississippi in "The Help" (2011), her dynamic roles earned her countless awards and the ability to seek out non-stereotypical characters worthy of her talent.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat | Unknown (Character) | - | 2025 |
| 95% | No Score Yet | Exhibiting Forgiveness | Joyce (Character) | - | 2024 |
| 81% | 97% | Origin | Isabel Wilkerson (Character) | $4.7M | 2023 |
| 81% | 95% | The Color Purple | Mama (Character) | $60.6M | 2023 |
| 90% | 98% | King Richard | Oracene "Brandy" Williams (Character) | $15.1M | 2021 |
| 67% | 30% | The Subject | Leslie Barnes (Character) | - | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel | Mattie Moss Clark (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 53% | 97% | Miss Virginia | Lorraine Townsend (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 95% | 68% | If Beale Street Could Talk | Mrs. Hunt (Character) | $14.9M | 2018 |
| 56% | 95% | Pimp | Gloria May (Character) | - | 2018 |
| 72% | 71% | The Birth of a Nation | Nancy Turner (Character) | $15.8M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Romeo and Juliet in Harlem |
Lady Capulet (Character), Executive Producer |
- | 2015 |
| 71% | 88% | Of Mind and Music | Una Vida (Character) | $15.1K | 2014 |
| 81% | 68% | Get On Up | Vicki Anderson (Character) | $30.5M | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Volunteer | Leigh (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Abducted: The Carlina White Story | Ann Pettway (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 76% | 89% | The Help | Yule Mae (Character) | $169.7M | 2011 |
| 31% | 27% | The Resident | Sydney (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 58% | The Tested | Darralynn Warren (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Money Matters | Pamela Matters (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Game of Death | Rachel (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 14% | 60% | The Hungry Ghosts | Nadia (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 85% | Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story | Candy (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 51% | 52% | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Therese (Garber's Wife) (Character) | $65.5M | 2009 |
| 52% | 65% | Notorious | Sandy (Character) | $36.8M | 2009 |
| 0% | 79% | Cover | Unknown (Character) | $62.2K | 2007 |
| 24% | 25% | Freedomland | Felicia (Character) | $12.5M | 2006 |
| 0% | 32% | Perception | Vera (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 76% | 73% | Brother to Brother | Zora (Character) | - | 2004 |
| 79% | 87% | Ray | Mary Ann Fisher (Character) | $75.3M | 2004 |
| 78% | 64% | Undercover Brother | Sistah Girl (Character) | $38.2M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | John John in the Sky | Earlene (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 86% | 64% | Lovely & Amazing | Lorraine (Character) | $4.2M | 2001 |
| 45% | 51% | The Caveman's Valentine | Lulu (Character) | $687.1K | 2001 |
| 60% | 85% | Disappearing Acts | Pam (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | The Opponent | June (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 42% | 81% | Men of Honor | Jo (Character) | $48.8M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Side Streets | Brenda Boyce (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 37% | 47% | Desert Blue | Agent Summers (Character) | $99.1K | 1998 |
| 85% | 80% | Girls Town | Nikki (Character) | $508.7K | 1996 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2024 |
| 91% | 46% | Justified: City Primeval | Carolyn Wilder (Character) | 2023 |
| 71% | 73% | 61st Street | Martha Roberts (Character) | 2022-2023 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Guest | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2021 |
| 88% | 64% | Lovecraft Country | Hippolyta Freeman (Character) | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2020 |
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Reverend Laura Chase (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| 97% | 89% | When They See Us | Sharon Salaam (Character) | 2019 |
| 71% | 53% | Designated Survivor | Eleanor Darby (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| 70% | 47% | Quantico | Miranda Shaw (Character) | 2015-2017 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | NCIS: Los Angeles | Michelle Hanna (Guest Star) | 2012-2014 2017 |
| 100% | No Score Yet | The Book of Negroes | Aminata Diallo (Character) | 2015 |
| 74% | 74% | Sleepy Hollow | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | The Mentalist | Danny Ruskin (Guest Star) | 2010-2011 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Missing |
Unknown (Guest Star), Guest |
2012 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Blue Bloods | Sylvia Marshall (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| 93% | 90% | The Good Wife | Linda Underwood (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 68% | 72% | True Blood | Diane (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 93% | Numb3ers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Carmen Rivera (Guest Star) | 2007 |
| 63% | No Score Yet | Justice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 15% | No Score Yet | E-Ring | Master Sgt. Jocelyn Pierce (Character) | 2005-2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jonny Zero | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| 63% | No Score Yet | The D.A. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 25% | No Score Yet | MDs | Unknown (Character) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Incident | Unknown (Character) | 1996-1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | New York Undercover | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |