S. Epatha Merkerson
ActingTotal Credits
67
Acting
66
First Credit
1949
Latest Credit
2025
Chicago P.D.
Sharon Goodwin
2014
Chicago Fire
Sharon Goodwin
2012
Chicago Med
Sharon Goodwin
2015
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tarissa Dyson
1991
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Anita Van Buren
2005
The Closer
Dr. Rebecca Dioli
2005
Frasier
Dr. McCaskill
1993
The Good Wife
Judge Melanie Ellis
2009
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Anita Van Buren
2001
Poker Face
Joyce Carter
2023
The Gabby Douglas Story
Miss Caroline
2014
Jacob's Ladder
Elsa
1990
Radio
Maggie
2003
Law & Order
Denise Winters · Anita Van Buren
1990
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
Reba
1988
After the SIlence
Barbara
1996
Pee-wee's Playhouse
Reba
1986
The Cosby Show
Elena
1984
Lincoln
Lydia Smith
2012
Black Snake Moan
Angela
2006
She's Gotta Have It
Doctor Jamison
1986
Mother and Child
Ada
2009
We Grown Now
Anita
2024
Finding Your Roots
Self
2012
Jersey Girl
Doctor #1
2004
Girl, Positive
Ariel Winters
2007
A Place for Annie
Alice
1994
Lackawanna Blues
Rachel 'Nanny' Crosby
2005
Exiled
Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
1998
The Challenger
Jada
2015
Eye for an Eye
May
2025
Peeples
Daphne Peeples
2013
Random Hearts
Nea
1999
Navy Seals
Jolena
1990
The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
Effa
2009
Loose Cannons
Rachel
1990
Slipstream
Bonnie
2007
The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America
Belize
2020
Moe's World
Actor
1990
A Mother's Prayer
Ruby
1995
Year by the Sea
Liz
2016
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Narrator (voice)
2008
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Eslanda Robeson (voice)
1999
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
Mann & Machine
Capt. Margaret Claghorn
1992
It's Nothing Personal
Louise Waters
1993
Here and Now
Claudia St. Marth
1992
The Rising Place
Lessie Watson
2001
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918
Narrator (voice)
2010
The Contradictions of Fair Hope
Director
2013
You Can Go
Mrs. Bryant
2016
An Unexpected Life
Beverly Hawkins
1998
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
2014
TVTony Awards
Self - Nominee
1956
MovieBarbecue
Lillie Anne
2020
Sexual Healing
Alberta Gay
After All
Actor
MovieThe Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson")
2006
MovieDesmond's Not Here Anymore
Selma
2021
Second Chances
Ruth Clayton
1992