Lorraine Toussaint

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Lorraine Toussaint Movies or Tv Shows (upto Nov 2024) - Watch Online

29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Lorraine Toussaint shocked audiences on the smash hit Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black" as the viciously seductive inmate Vee. Toussaint's thrilling performance has won her glowing reviews from the likes of TV Guide and Vanity Fair, stirring the Emmy buzz for her outstanding performance. Toussaint also received praise for her performance in the Academy Award nominated feature film "Selma." Up next, Toussaint will star in the new Fox series "Rosewood," alongside Morris Chestnut, which premieres this fall.Born in Trinidad, Toussaint and her mother moved to Brooklyn, NY, where she was raised, when she was ten years old. Growing up, she watched a lot of television while she waited for her mother to return from work and this sparked her interest in acting. Toussaint begged her mother to enroll her in acting school and her search lead to her studying theater at New York's renowned High School of Performing Arts. After graduation, she enrolled herself at the Juilliard School's drama division where she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with "Shakespeare & Company."Toussaint spent the first 12 years of her career acting on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Her first television appearance was in 1983 in "The Face of Rage." Toussaint's biggest career boost has come from her co-starring role opposite Annie Potts in the TV series "Any Day Now," which earned Toussaint an NAACP Image Award nomination for best actress in a drama series, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series and she received the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association.Among Toussaint's TV credits were recurring roles on several popular television shows such as NBC's drama series "Friday Night Lights," TNT's "Saving Grace," "Law & Order," and ABC's hit "ugly Betty." She has also had several guest appearances on the hit television shows "CSI: Crime Investigation," "Grey's Anatomy," and opposite Kerry Washington on drama thriller "Scandal."No stranger to the silver screen, Touissant's first film role was opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy "Breaking In." Touissant has also appeared in "Dangerous Minds," "The Soloist," and Ava DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere," in which her performance was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Up next, Toussaint stars as Salome Whitmore in the upcoming period drama, "Sophie and the Rising Sun," written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. Toussaint will also play Anthony Mackie's mother in the upcoming Seth Rogen comedy "X-Mas," in theaters this November.Toussaint and her daughter split their time between New York and Los Angeles. - IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous

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Streaming Availability

Google Play Movies has the most number of Lorraine Toussaint’s flixes, followed by Apple iTunes compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Lorraine Toussaint on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1986 to 2021. See the full graphs of the number of Lorraine Toussaint movies released per year from 2003 till 2021.

Top Genres

Lorraine Toussaint works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Crime Genre flixes. 58% of Lorraine Toussaint movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Lorraine Toussaint worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Lorraine Toussaint has worked on is 6.7.

6.7 / 10

Lorraine Toussaint's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Crime,Drama,Fantasy
Forever (2014)

A 200-year-old man works in the New York City Morgue trying to find a key to unlock the curse of his immortality.

8.2/1043 min

Available in 7 platform(s).

She-Ra, Princess of Power, leads a rebellion to free her land of Etheria from the monstrous invaders the Horde.

7.8/1030 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Drama,Fantasy
Saving Grace (2007)

An angel offers a jaded Oklahoma City police detective the chance to redeem her life.

7.6/1060 min

Available in 5 platform(s).

Residents of a unique apartment building in Greenwich Village build a bonded family of friends and neighbors.

7.3/1060 min

Available in 6 platform(s).

Crime,Drama,Mystery
Rosewood (2015)

Miami pathologist Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. finds secrets in people's bodies using his state-of-the-art laboratory equipment.

6.6/1042 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

When her husband is sentenced to eight years in prison, Ruby drops out of medical school in order to focus on her husband's well-being while he's incarcerated - leading her on a journey of self-discovery in the process.

6.5/1097 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

A teenager discovers the world of urban horseback riding when he moves in with his estranged father in North Philadelphia.

6.3/10111 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned ...

6.2/1095 min

Available in 1 platform(s).