Loretta Devine

Loretta Devine is an American actress. She is known for numerous roles across stage and screen. Her most high profile roles include Lorrell Robinson in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls, the long-suffering Gloria Matthews in the film Waiting to Exhale, and her recurring role as Adele Webber on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2011.

21 August 1949

Born on the same birth day (21 August): Aubrey Beardsley • Can Yücel • Diego Klattenhoff • Ivan Stang • Jason Eaton • Mike Weston • Nathaniel Everett Green • Nigel Pearson • Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon • Radish Tordia • Thomas S. Monson • Toe Blake • V. B. Chandrasekhar • X. J. Kennedy

Born in the same month (August 1949): Ann Murray • Bill Spooner • Darnell Hillman • Diana Nyad • Joe Regalbuto • Jonathan Kellerman • Martin Amis • Panagiotis Chinofotis • Phyllis Smith • Rick Roberts (musician) • Rick Springfield • Scott Asheton • Shelley Long • Stan Hansen • Stephen McKinley Henderson • Svetislav Pešić