More at IMDbPro » Jonelle Allen is an American actress, singer, and dancer.Born in New York City, Allen grew up in Harlem's Sugar Hill in a neighborhood that included Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and Johnny Hodges, and NAACP founder Walter White. She made her Broadway debut at the age of six in The Wisteria Trees, Joshua Logan's Americanized adaptation of The Cherry Orchard starring Helen Hayes. As a child, she also made regular appearances on a local children's television series, The Merry Mailman, hosted by Ray Heatherton.Allen returned to Broadway for a revival of Finian's Rainbow. She was in the cast of the original off-Broadway production of Hair at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and also appeared in George M! before receiving critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination for Two Gentlemen of Verona, which earned her New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Theatre World, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance. Despite her success, it proved to be her last Broadway appearance to date.Allen's film credits include Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Hotel New Hampshire, and The River Niger, for which she won an NAACP Image Award. Other television appearances include Barney Miller, The Love Boat, All in the Family, Trapper John, M.D., Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, ER, and Girlfriends. She played a lesbian prison inmate in the 1975 television movie Cage Without a Key, which starred Susan Dey.Her most notable roles are Grace, the entrepreneurial cafe owner in the old west, that she played for seven years on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, as well as the flamboyant and outspoken Doreen Jackson on the NBC soap opera, Generations and Lucinda Cavender, the vampire witch in the horror comedy film The Midnight Hour. Before her role of Doreen on Generations, Jonelle played ambitious salesgirl turned boutique manager Stacey Russell, on the short-lived primetime soap, Berrenger's.Allen appeared as the legendary Harlem Jazz Queen Florence Mills in Harlem Renaissance at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Ms. Allen is currently heading up the New Works//Staged Reading Projects at Saddleback College, and is also writing and directing new shows which Ms. Allen calls "plays with music' which have been presented at Saddleback, notably an adaptation of Dickens Christmas Carol and The Journey both with composer, David Anthony Martin. This year, Ms. Allen has a film The Divorce by Donald B. Welch, being released on Amazon, and this summer, Ms. Allen will be starring in Hello Dolly at Saddlebacks CLO. Later this year, Ms. Allen will be starring in Donald B. Welch's Secret Garden, and doing an updated version of her Florence Mills one woman show, which Ms. Allen is writing with her collaborator, Stevi Meredith. | Full Name | New York City, New York, USA | More at IMDbPro » | | Net Worth | $300,000 | | Occupation | Actress, singer, dancer | | Profession | Actress | | Nicknames | Jonelle Allen, Allen, Jonelle |
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| Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie | 1999 | TV Movie | Grace | | Next Time | 1998 | | Evelyn | | Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman | 1993-1998 | TV Series | Grace | | The Eddie Files | 1997 | TV Series | Eddie's Music Teacher | | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | 1992 | TV Series | Loretta | | Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive | 1992 | TV Movie | Madeline Garrick | | The Royal Family | 1992 | TV Series | Nina Martin | | Generations | 1989 | TV Series | Doreen Jackson | | Werewolf | 1987 | TV Series | Emily | | The Hitchhiker | 1987 | TV Series | Sunny | | The Penalty Phase | 1986 | TV Movie | Susan Jansen | | New Love, American Style | 1986 | TV Series | | | The Midnight Hour | 1985 | TV Movie | Lucinda Cavender | | Berrenger's | 1985 | TV Series | Stacey Russell | | Cagney & Lacey | 1983-1984 | TV Series | Claudia Petrie / Elizabeth Carter | | The Hotel New Hampshire | 1984 | | Sabrina | | Hill Street Blues | 1984 | TV Series | Linda Talbot | | Trapper John, M.D. | 1982 | TV Series | Jane Doe | | Victims | 1982 | TV Movie | Maydene Jariott | | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | 1980-1981 | TV Series | Bessie Freeman | | Perfectly Frank | 1981 | TV Movie | | | Brave New World | 1980 | TV Movie | Fanny Crowne | | Vampire | 1979 | TV Movie | Brandy | | The White Shadow | 1979 | TV Series | Shelley | | All in the Family | 1978 | TV Series | Marabel | | The Love Boat | 1978 | TV Series | Andrea Martin | | What's Happening!! | 1978 | TV Series | Love-is-Life | | The American Woman: Portraits of Courage | 1976 | TV Movie | Rosa Parks | | Joe Forrester | 1976 | TV Series | | | The River Niger | 1976 | | Ann Vanderguild | | Police Story | 1975 | TV Series | Merrilly Goodwin / Mary Sue | | Barney Miller | 1975 | TV Series | Officer Turner | | Foster and Laurie | 1975 | TV Movie | Jacqueline Foster | | Police Woman | 1974-1975 | TV Series | Maxine Fuller / Laurette Blake | | Cage Without a Key | 1975 | TV Movie | Tommy | | The Wide World of Mystery | 1974 | TV Series | Eva | | Come Back, Charleston Blue | 1972 | | Carol | | The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright | 1971 | TV Movie | | | The Cross and the Switchblade | 1970 | | Bishop Deb | | Cotton Comes to Harlem | 1970 | | Secretary | | Spotlight 2 | 2016 | Short post-production | Anna | | American Crime Story | 2016 | TV Series | Mom Darden | | Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman with Jane Seymour | 2014 | Short | | | The Divorce | 2014 | TV Movie | Thelma Massey | | Float | 2008 | | Madge | | Girlfriends | 2007 | TV Series | Eleanor | | As Seen on TV | 2005 | Short | Shauna | | ER | 2000-2003 | TV Series | Debbie Marlin | | Mr. Barrington | 2003 | | Mother Anne | | Strong Medicine | 2002 | TV Series | Connie | | Flossin | 2001 | | Viola | | Blues for Red | 1999 | | Dora | | Twice in a Lifetime | 1999 | TV Series | Dr. Grace Grant-Heistings, M.D. / Nurse Daisy Bradford |
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| Molly Marcy | 2007 | TV Movie | Herself | | TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | 2004 | Video documentary | Herself | | All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade | 1997 | TV Special | Herself | | The 11th Annual Black Achievement Awards | 1990 | TV Special | Herself | | Body Language | 1985 | TV Series | Herself | | Battle of the Network Stars VIII | 1980 | TV Special | Herself - CBS Team | | Match Game PM | 1980 | TV Series | Herself - Panelist | | The Jim Nabors Show | 1978 | TV Series | Herself | | The Peter Marshall Variety Show | 1976 | TV Series | Herself | | Dinah! | 1976 | TV Series | Herself | | Cotton Club '75 | 1974 | TV Movie | Herself | | The Mike Douglas Show | 1974 | TV Series | Herself - Actress | | NBC Follies | 1973 | TV Series | Herself | | The 26th Annual Tony Awards | 1972 | TV Special | Herself | | The David Frost Show | 1972 | TV Series | Herself |
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