Loretta Devine is an American actress and singer, best known as Marla Hendricks on FOX’s Boston Public and her Emmy Award-winning role, Adele Webber, on ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Other television credits include Cece on BET’s Being Mary Jane, Cynthia Carmichael on NBC’s The Carmichael Show, and Stevie Rallen on NBC’s A Different World.

Film credits include Waiting to Exhale, The Preacher's Wife, I Am Sam, Urban Legend, Crash, Woman Thou Art Loosed, For Colored Girls, This Christmas, and Jumping the Broom.

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut as Member of the Tribe in Hair (Biltmore Theatre), Lilly in Big Deal (Broadway Theatre), Lorrell Robinson in Dream Girls (Imperial Theatre), Young Mary in Comin’ Uptown (Winter Garden Theatre), and Smoke & Fire Back-Up Singer/Others in A Broadway Musical (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre); and Off-Broadway, as Charlesetta in East Texas Hot Links (Anspacher Theater) and La Wanda/Others in The Colored Museum (Public Theater).