Anna Maria Horsford
Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies.
Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama The Shield playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2017.
Horsford appeared in a number of movies, most notable as Craig Jones' mother Betty in 1995 comedy film Friday and its sequel Friday After Next (2002). Her other film credits include Times Square (1980), The Fan (1981), Presumed Innocent (1990), Set It Off (1996), Along Came a Spider (2001), Our Family Wedding (2010), and A Madea Christmas (2013).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 7.49 |
| Birthday | 1948-03-06 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Anna Horsford, Anna Marie Horsford, |
1981
Starstruck
0/0
Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational scholarship.
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Starstruck
1981
Bill
6.6/5
Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent most of his life in a dreary inner city institution...
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Bill
1995
Friday
7.159/1796
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
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Friday
1990
Presumed Innocent
6.8/682
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fig...
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Presumed Innocent
1983
Class
5.897/175
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the...
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Class
1996
One Fine Day
6.4/647
Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one mornin...
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One Fine Day
2007
I Tried
7.4/6
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I Tried
2001
How High
6.31/938
Multi-platinum rap superstars Redman and Method Man star as Jamal and Silas, two regular guys who smoke something magical, ace their college entrance...
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How High
2000
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
4.99/1297
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that rever...
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
1982
Muggable Mary: Street Cop
0/0
Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
2021
The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
5.1/15
A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-thro...
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The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
2001
Jacked Up
7.2/5
A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.
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Jacked Up
2006
Broken Bridges
7.6/28
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the f...
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Broken Bridges
1996
Set It Off
7.195/341
Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four wome...
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Set It Off
2004
Guarding Eddy
4.5/2
A developmentally handicapped young man comes to L.A. to pursue his dream of playing professional basketball for the Clippers.
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Guarding Eddy
1985
Stone Pillow
6/5
A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to o...
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Stone Pillow
1982
Love Child
5.8/4
It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on accou...
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Love Child
2009
Directors on Directing
0/0
A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form the perspective of Black film makers.
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Directors on Directing
2012
C'mon Man
7/3
Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.
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C'mon Man
1979
An Almost Perfect Affair
4.5/4
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair be...
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An Almost Perfect Affair
2004
Justice
6/1
Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system. Over the objections of his wife, Sharice (Monica...
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Justice
2013
A Madea Christmas
6.507/137
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the count...
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A Madea Christmas
1986
A Case of Deadly Force
0/0
Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car us...
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A Case of Deadly Force
1984
Summer Switch
0/0
Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.
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Summer Switch
2021
Vacation Friends
7.09/759
When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the States, they discover that the crazy couple they met...
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Vacation Friends
1986
C.A.T. Squad
3.7/3
When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite team, the Counter Assault Tactical (C.A.T.) Squad,...
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C.A.T. Squad
1985
Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
0/0
At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands off the coast of Georgia. White plantation owners f...
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Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
2022
Me Time
5.91/892
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventur...
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Me Time
1996
Widow's Kiss
4.8/8
Haunted by his mother's recent death, a young man becomes suspicious of his wealthy father's sexy, new bride. When his father dies mysteriously, the b...
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Widow's Kiss
1996
Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
4.2/4
This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on eac...
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1989
Taken Away
0/0
A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone instead of going to a babysitter. The mother finall...
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Taken Away
1992
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
5.6/8
Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his way when he graduates from Phillips Exeter Academ...
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Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
1993
Mr. Jones
5.734/156
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his tr...
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Mr. Jones
2002
Friday After Next
6.3/407
Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib, working nights at a local mall as security guard...
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Friday After Next
1985
St. Elmo's Fire
6.1/529
A group of friends graduates from the halls of Georgetown University into lives that revolve around sex and career aspirations. Kirby waits tables to...
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St. Elmo's Fire
1981
The Fan
5.857/49
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with rejection, the fan strikes out in increasingly vio...
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The Fan
1996
Dear God
5.5/60
A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he gets a job in the U.S. Post Office's dead letter offi...
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Dear God
2024
Will I See You Again?
0/0
Two former friends find themselves summoned to their late friend's estate hearing. To claim their inheritance, they must first confront their past rel...
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Will I See You Again?
1980
Times Square
6.7/37
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own advent...
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Times Square
1994
Baby Brokers
6.2/4
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.
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Baby Brokers
1984
A Doctor's Story
5/1
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
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A Doctor's Story
1988
Who Gets the Friends?
4/2
Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the fr...
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Who Gets the Friends?
2010
Our Family Wedding
5.7/127
The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respective fathers try to lay to rest their feud.
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Our Family Wedding
2018
Chasing the Blues
5.5/2
Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record. When a series of unfortunate circumstances lands t...
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Chasing the Blues
2018
Single AF
6.6/8
A plethora of single people connected through a dating app meet their judgement day based on their serendipitous sins.
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Single AF
2002
Minority Report
7.3/8650
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the...
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Minority Report
1990
A Killer Among Us
3/1
Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes very strongly in the innocence of the young man, bu...
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A Killer Among Us
1987
Street Smart
5.903/72
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
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Street Smart
2000
Masquerade
10/1
After moving to LA, a young woman starts a romance with a man (Cress Williams) she met on the internet. Trouble brews when she discovers that a friend...
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Masquerade
1984
Crackers
4.4/28
In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while nav...
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Crackers
2005
My Big Phat Hip Hop Family
1/1
Audrey is a typical music student at a large Midwestern college, interested in pursuing a career in classical music. Her apparent "normalcy," however,...
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My Big Phat Hip Hop Family
2005
Ganked
5/3
Aspiring songwriter Ricky Barry (Kel Mitchell) finally gets the break he's been waiting for when he enters a song in a contest and wins. But instead o...
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Ganked
1986
Heartburn
6/190
Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reser...
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Heartburn
2010
Wigger
0/0
"Wigger" is a spellbinding urban drama, which chronicles the life of a young, White, male (Brandon) who totally emulates and immerses himself in Afric...
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Wigger
1982
Benny's Place
10/1
Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Benny's Place
2006
Gridiron Gang
7/980
Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem by playing football together.
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Gridiron Gang
2001
Along Came a Spider
6.336/1828
After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the pea...
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Along Came a Spider
1997
Kiss the Girls
6.527/1609
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova,"...
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Kiss the Girls
1979
Hollow Image
6/1
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old bo...
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