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S. Epatha Merkerson
The talent

S. Epatha Merkerson

Acting
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The work

Eye for an Eye 2025
Eye for an Eye May
We Grown Now 2024
We Grown Now Anita
Poker Face 2023
Poker Face Joyce Carter
Desmond's Not Here Anymore 2021
Desmond's Not Here Anymore Selma
Blood Sugar Rising 2020
Blood Sugar Rising Narrator (voice)
Barbecue 2020
Barbecue Lillie Anne
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America 2020
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America Belize
Year by the Sea 2016
Year by the Sea Liz
You Can Go 2016
You Can Go Mrs. Bryant
The Challenger 2015
The Challenger Jada
Chicago Med 2015
Chicago Med Sharon Goodwin
The Gabby Douglas Story 2014
The Gabby Douglas Story Miss Caroline
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee 2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee Self
Chicago P.D. 2014
Chicago P.D. Sharon Goodwin
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Self
Peeples 2013
Peeples Daphne Peeples
The Contradictions of Fair Hope 2013
The Contradictions of Fair Hope Director
Lincoln 2012
Lincoln Lydia Smith
Finding Your Roots 2012
Finding Your Roots Self
Chicago Fire 2012
Chicago Fire Sharon Goodwin
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 2010
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 Narrator (voice)
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay 2009
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay Effa
Mother and Child 2009
Mother and Child Ada
The Good Wife 2009
The Good Wife Judge Melanie Ellis
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun 2008
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun Narrator (voice)
Slipstream 2007
Slipstream Bonnie
Girl, Positive 2007
Girl, Positive Ariel Winters
Black Snake Moan 2006
Black Snake Moan Angela
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays 2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")
Rachael Ray 2006
Rachael Ray Self

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