Debbie Allen

Acting

Biography

Debbie Allen is an American film and television actress and director.

A Murder in Oakland: Beauty is Deadly
2025
Detective Foster
The Hidden Power of Purpose
2023
Narrator (voice)
Soul of a Nation Presents: Screen Queens Rising
2022
Self
Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous
2021
Betty Samson
Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
2020
Herself
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
2020
Directing
Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance
2020
Self
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
2019
Self
American Tap
2018
Self
The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker
2014
A Star for Rose
2013
Rose
A Place for Us: West Side Story's Legacy
2011
Self
Fame
2009
Ms. Angela Simms
Next Day Air
2009
Ms. Jackson
Bring Back... Fame
2008
Self
Tournament of Dreams
2007
Rhonda Dillins
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006
American Idol Auditionee in Sunglasses
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Anita (segment "West Side Story") (archive footage)
Confessions of an Action Star
2005
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs: America's Greatest Music in the Movies
2004
Self
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
2002
Self (uncredited)
It's Black Entertainment
2002
Self
The Painting
2001
Bertha Lee Gilmore
All About You
2001
Ruth
The Old Settler
2001
Quilly McGrath
Everything's Jake
2000
Debbie Allen
Intimate Portrait: Josephine Baker
1999
Herself
Michael Jordan: An American Hero
1999
Deloris Jordan
Mariah Carey: Butterfly World Tour - Live at Tokyo Dome
1998
Directing
The Middle Passage
1997
Narrator