S. Epatha Merkerson
S. Epatha Merkerson (born Sharon Epatha Merkerson) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has won a Golden Globe, Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, Obie Award, 4 NAACP Image Awards, and 2 Tony Award nominations. She is best known for her role as NYPD Lieutenant Anita Van Buren (1993–2010) on the long-running NBC police procedural drama series Law & Order, as well as the Law & Order TV movie Exiled. She appeared in 390 episodes of the series, more than any other cast member. She has a starring role as Sharon Goodwin on NBC's Chicago Med. She also had a recurring role as Reba (the mail carrier) on Pee-wee's Playhouse, and Ms. St. Marth on the TV series Here and Now. She has appeared in feature films including She's Gotta Have It, Loose Cannons, Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Random Hearts, Radio, Black Snake Moan, Lincoln (2012), and Peeples. She has also appeared in TV movies including A Place for Annie, A Mother's Prayer, Breaking Through, Lackawanna Blues, and The Gabby Douglas Story.
Tuntud rollide järgi
5.8 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
7.3 Law & Order
1990
7.3 Law & Order
1990
8.4 Chicago P.D.
2014
8.4 Chicago Fire
2012
7.7 Frasier
1993
7.6 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
8.3 Chicago Med
2015
7.6 The Good Wife
2009
7.9 The Closer
2005
4.3 The View
1997
5.6 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Filmograafia
- 2025Eye for an Eye (May)
- 2024We Grown Now (Anita)
- 2021Desmond's Not Here Anymore (Selma)
- 2016You Can Go (Mrs. Bryant)
- 2016Year by the Sea (Liz)
- 2015The Challenger (Jada)
- 2014The Gabby Douglas Story (Miss Caroline)
- 2013Peeples (Daphne Peeples)
- 2012Lincoln (Lydia Smith)
- 2009Mother and Child (Ada)
- 2009The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (Effa)
- 2008Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (Narrator (voice))
- 2007Girl, Positive (Ariel Winters)
- 2007Slipstream (Bonnie)
- 2006Black Snake Moan (Angela)
- 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays (Berniece (segment "The Piano Lesson"))
- 2005Lackawanna Blues (Rachel 'Nanny' Crosby)
- 2004Jersey Girl (Doctor #1)
- 2003Radio (Maggie)
- 2001The Rising Place (Lessie Watson)
- 1999Random Hearts (Nea)
- 1998Exiled (Lieutenant Anita Van Buren)
- 1998An Unexpected Life (Beverly Hawkins)
- 1996After the SIlence (Barbara)
- 1995A Mother's Prayer (Ruby)
- 1994A Place for Annie (Alice)
- 1993It's Nothing Personal (Louise Waters)
- 1991Terminaator 2: Kohtupäev (Tarissa Dyson)
- 1990Jacob's Ladder (Elsa)
- 1990Moe's World
- 1990Loose Cannons (Rachel)
- 1986She's Gotta Have It (Doctor Jamison)
- -Sexual Healing (Alberta Gay)
- 2023Pokkerinägu (Joyce Carter)
- 2020Barbecue (Lillie Anne)
- 2020The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America (Belize)
- 2020Blood Sugar Rising (Narrator (voice))
- 2015Chicago Med (Sharon Goodwin)
- 2014Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee (Self)
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Self)
- 2014Chicago P.D. (Sharon Goodwin)
- 2012Chicago Fire (Sharon Goodwin)
- 2012Finding Your Roots (Self)
- 2010We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918 (Narrator (voice))
- 2009The Good Wife (Judge Melanie Ellis)
- 2006Rachael Ray (Self)
- 2005The Closer (Dr. Rebecca Dioli)
- 2005Law & Order: Trial by Jury (Anita Van Buren)
- 2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show (Self)
- 2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Anita Van Buren)
- 1999Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (Eslanda Robeson (voice))
- 1997The View (Self)
- 1993Frasier (Dr. McCaskill)
- 1992Here and Now (Claudia St. Marth)
- 1992Mann & Machine (Capt. Margaret Claghorn)
- 1992Second Chances (Ruth Clayton)
- 1990Law & Order (Anita Van Buren)
- 1990Law & Order (Denise Winters)
- 1990Navy Seals (Jolena)
- 1988Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (Reba)
- -After All
- 1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark (Self - Guest)
- 1986Pee-wee's Playhouse (Reba)
- 1984The Cosby Show (Elena)
- 1956Tony Awards (Self - Nominee)
- 1952Today (Self)
- 1949The Emmy Awards (Self)