Lorraine Toussaint

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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

April 4, 1960

Career Milestones

Landed her first paying job as Lady MacBeth with Shakespeare & Company

Moved to Los Angeles after acting on the New York stage for 12 years

1970

Emigrated to New York from the West Indies with her mother

1983

First TV appearance was on "The Face of Rage" (ABC)

1989

Appeared in the Mark Lamos's production of "Measure for Measure" at the Lincoln Center in New York

1989

Made film debut as Delphine in "Breaking In" with Burt Reynolds

1990

Cast in a recurring role as Shambala Green on the NBC drama, "Law & Order"

1991

Played the role of Almond Joy, opposite Bruce Willis, in the movie, "Hudson Hawk"

1993

Appeared opposite Bridget Fonda in "Point of No Return," a remake of Luc Besson's film "Nikita"

1993

Played a West Indian character for the first time in "Playboy of the West Indies" at the Lincoln Center in New York

1996

Co-starred in the "1996" segment of the award winning HBO movie, "If These Walls Could Talk"

1998

Co-starred with Annie Potts in the Lifetime series, "Any Day Now"

2002

Played assistant medical examiner Elaine Duchamps on the NBC drama, "Crossing Jordan"

2003

Appeared regularly on the short-lived ABC drama, "Threat Matrix"

2005

Co-starred in the ABC TV movie based on Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 novel of the same name, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

2007

Cast as Captain Kate Perry on the TNT series, "Saving Grace"

2007

Cast in a recurring role as prison inmate Yoga, who befriends Claire Meade (played by Judith Light), in the ABC sitcom, "Ugly Betty"