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Vernee Watson
Highest Rated: 100% Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000)
Lowest Rated: 5% Christmas With the Kranks (2004)
Birthday: Jan 14, 1954
Birthplace: North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
A character actress with an extensive and decades-long career in some of the most well-known American television shows of their time, Vernee Watson-Johnson was perhaps most familiar to a generation as Viola 'Vy' Smith, the mother of Will Smith's lead character in the hugely popular sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (NBC 1990-96). She also worked extensively as an animation voice artist. Offscreen, she was also in the media in 2005 when she appeared as a witness for the defense at the second trial of Michael Jackson on child molestation charges.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Look Familiar: Vernee Watson | Self | - | 2021 |
| 92% |
|
Clemency | Mrs. Collins (Character) | $361.7K | 2019 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Mandela Effect | Nadine (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet |
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Home by Spring | Mrs. Wilson (Character) | - | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man Called Jon | Helen Black (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the Heavens | Chief Hauck (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Highland Park | May (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nocturnal Agony | Lois (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet |
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Applause for Miss E | Charlene (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 5% |
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Christmas With the Kranks | Dox (Character) | $73.7M | 2004 |
| 60% |
|
No Turning Back | Detective Bryan (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 100% |
|
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Mrs. Carr (Voice) | - | 2000 |
| 83% |
|
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Additional Voices (Voice) | $5.0M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Diagnosis of Murder | Esther Wiggins (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 43% |
|
G.I. Joe: The Movie | Scientist (Voice) | - | 1987 |
| 33% |
|
All Night Long | Emily (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Violation of Sarah McDavid | Kip Leslie (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death Drug | Carolyn (Character) | - | 1978 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble | Gwen (Character) | - | 1976 |
| 40% |
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Norman... Is That You? | Melody (Character) | - | 1976 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 57% | Bob Hearts Abishola | Gloria (Character) | 2019-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Young Sheldon | Nurse Robinson (Guest Star) | 2017 2019 |
| 44% | 67% | Rel | Dr. Roberts (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| 93% | 81% | Superstore | Lillian (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | The Resident | Mary Phillips (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| 90% | 87% | Grace and Frankie | Doreen (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 81% | 84% | The Big Bang Theory | Althea (Guest Star) | 2007-2008 2010 2012 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Miss Helen Frimkes (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 91% | 85% | Archer | Cop (Guest Voice) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Odd Couple | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Mike & Molly | Blanche (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Middle | Cashier (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 27% | 63% | Rush Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 94% | 81% | Fresh Off the Boat | Mrs. Parker (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| 65% | 66% | Two and a Half Men | Nurse Phyllis (Guest Star) | 2004 2011-2012 2015 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suit Up | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 91% | 90% | Suburgatory | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 73% | 84% | Ben and Kate | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reed Between the Lines | Valencia (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 82% | 87% | Castle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | The Mentalist | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2011 |
| 90% | 96% | House | Nurse Smits (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| 90% | 98% | Southland | Mrs. Johnson (Guest Star) | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 95% | Cold Case | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| 52% | 50% | Shark | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | Ghost Whisperer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 71% | 81% | Dexter | Doakes' Mother (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| 72% | 88% | Desperate Housewives | ER Doctor (Guest Star) | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eve | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Malcolm in the Middle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Judging Amy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2003 |
| 74% | 85% | The X-Files | Nurse Whitney Edwards (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Guardian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Loretta Murray (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The District | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dharma & Greg | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sister, Sister | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1996-1997 |
| No Score Yet | 91% | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990-1995 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | The New Adventures of Captain Planet | Judge (Guest Voice) | 1995 |
| 0% | No Score Yet | Baby Talk | Danielle Craig (Voice) | 1991-1992 |
| No Score Yet | 96% | Married ... With Children | Renee (Guest Star) | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Different World | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Belvedere | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Foley Square | Denise Willums (Character) | 1985-1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Punky Brewster | Receptionist (Guest Star) | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chicago Story | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979-1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Jeffersons | Carol (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Eight Is Enough | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's Happening!! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Good Times | Valerie (Guest Star) | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Welcome Back, Kotter | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975-1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tattletales | Guest | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That's My Mama! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |