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Acting

Novella Nelson

Career: Active from 1984 to 2012, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 2
top three billing

Average score: 59/100

Highest rated: Premium
73/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 41 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Novella Nelson Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Historical
1.1, average 2.5
Wonder
2.1, average 3.4
Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Adrenaline
3.9, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 2
Social Commentary 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Howard Rollins
Actor
He's Fired, She's Hired, Harambee!

Movies and TV shows

59

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

4 titles · average score 66

You Were Never Really Here

77

as Diner Woman

A Walk Among the Tombstones

61

as Librarian

Nancy, Please

60

as Dr. Bannister

It's Kind of a Funny Story

64

as Professor

2000s

16 titles · average score 58

Damages

78

TV show · as Older Female Victim

Army Wives

67

TV show · as Vivian Burton

The Starter Wife

54

TV show · as Nana

30 Rock

76

TV show · as Novella Nelson

Premium

73

as Jayme

Dear Wendy

48

as Clarabelle

Preaching to the Choir

48

as Aunt June

Birth

54

as Lee

Head of State

46

as Moderator

Whoopi

38

TV show · as Nurse

Antwone Fisher

71

as Mrs. Tate

The Gilded Six Bits

as Mama Banks

1990s

25 titles · average score 61

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as Mrs. Mosley / Judge Anne Sciola

The West Wing

81

TV show · as Gail Fitzwallace

Third Watch

84

TV show · as Sondra Richards

A Perfect Murder

57

as Ambassador Alice Wills

Sex and the City

69

TV show · as Madame Lordes

The Devil's Advocate

67

as Botanica Woman

The Summer of Ben Tyler

68

as Rosetta Tyler

Harambee!

as Queenesther

The Keeper

56

as Mrs. Lemont, Mother

New York Undercover

76

TV show · as Prof. Cortez

Dead Funny

53

as Frances

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Judge Gloria Crutcher / Mrs. Washington

1980s

12 titles · average score 64

The Littlest Victims

as Mrs. Munson

Hothouse

TV show · as Olivia

Orphans

70

as Mattie

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

49

TV show · as Jazz Singer

Kojak: The Price of Justice

59

as Pearl

The Equalizer

62

TV show · as Miriam Blain

The Cotton Club

68

as Madame St. Clair

He's Fired, She's Hired

as Serena Cole

The Flamingo Kid

62

as Lizzy the Housekeeper

A Doctor's Story

as Mrs. Thornton

Chiefs

80

TV show · as Nellie Cole

Abuse

as Street Interviewee

1970s

2 titles · average score 65

The Seduction of Joe Tynan

52

as Carla Willis

An Unmarried Woman

77

as Jean