Lela Rochon

Lela Rochon

Born: April 17, 1964
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Lela Rochon (born Lela Rochon Staples; April 17, 1964) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Robin Stokes in the movie Waiting to Exhale.

In 1996, Lela was chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the "50 most beautiful people in the world".

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Title: David Makes Man
Character: Alma
Released: August 14, 2019
Type: TV
A 14-year-old prodigy's mother relies on him to find a way out of poverty, but he is haunted by the death of his friend; he must choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that may offer him a way out.
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Title: Alone Together
Character: Rose
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: TV
Esther and Benji are platonic best friends who want nothing more than to be accepted by the vain and status-obsessed culture of Los Angeles. Despite their sometimes contentious relationship, when push comes to shove, they’ve got each other’s back … And they have nobody else to hang out with.
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Title: Training Day
Character: Mrs. Craig
Released: February 2, 2017
Type: TV
Fifteen years after the events of the feature film, Kyle Craig is assigned to go undercover in an elite squad of the LAPD as Detective Frank Rourke’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods. As Frank starts teaching his principled trainee the way of the streets, they form an uneasy alliance that will change the course of both their lives irrevocably.
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Title: Insecure
Character: Jackie
Released: October 9, 2016
Type: TV
Follows the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.
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Reversion
Title: Reversion
Character: Maya
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
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Supremacy
Title: Supremacy
Character: Mother
Released: June 12, 2014
Type: Movie
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the run again. When he finds a house off a dirt road and takes a family hostage, he thinks the Aryan Brotherhood has his back–and his kidnap victims are black. The family’s patriarch, Mr. Walker, is a jaded ex-con who hates cops so much he disavowed his own son for becoming one. Seeing a familiar desperation in Tully, Walker refuses to call the authorities for help, causing familial tensions to escalate, and soon grave missteps are made.
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Let the Church Say Amen
Title: Let the Church Say Amen
Released: August 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A prominent reverend balances his duty to the church with family woes as his 21-year-old daughter tries to put her life back together.
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Brooklyn's Finest
Title: Brooklyn's Finest
Character: Investigator #1 (as Lela Rochon Fuqua)
Released: March 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
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Blood Done Sign My Name
Title: Blood Done Sign My Name
Character: Roseanna Allen
Released: February 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
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Fatal Secrets
Title: Fatal Secrets
Character: Sharlene
Released: January 3, 2009
Type: Movie
An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a charming man with a secret background who has pushed her to the breaking point. The women underestimate the consequences when they take matters into their own hands as their opponent forces them into a desperate situation, and everyone pays a price.
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Title: The Reichen Show
Character: Self
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: TV
A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.
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First Daughter
Title: First Daughter
Character: Liz Pappas
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Samantha MacKenzie, the daughter of the president of the United States, arrives at college with a group of Secret Service agents. Samantha, however, resents their presence and decides she wants to attend school just like a normal student. Her father agrees to recall the agents but secretly assigns James, an undercover agent, to pose as a student. They fall in love, but their romance is jeopardized when Samantha learns James' true identity.
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Title: The Division
Character: Angela Reid
Released: January 7, 2001
Type: TV
The Division is an American crime drama television series created by Deborah Joy LeVine and starring Bonnie Bedelia. The series focused on a team of women police officers in the San Francisco Police Department. The series premiered on Lifetime on January 7, 2001 and ended on June 28, 2004 after 88 episodes.
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Labor Pains
Title: Labor Pains
Character: Lulu Brown
Released: November 7, 2000
Type: Movie
A New York City columnist falls in love with -- and quickly gets pregnant by -- a free-spirited artist who promptly vanishes for eight months.
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Any Given Sunday
Title: Any Given Sunday
Character: Vanessa Struthers
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the ageing coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
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Knock Off
Title: Knock Off
Character: Karen Lee
Released: September 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A fashion designer and his CIA agent business partner must join forces to stop a group of terrorists from smuggling explosives in counterfeit jeans during the handover of Hong Kong.
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Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Title: Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Character: Emira Eagle
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
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The Big Hit
Title: The Big Hit
Character: Chantel
Released: April 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Affable hit man Melvin Smiley is constantly being scammed by his cutthroat colleagues in the life-ending business. So, when he and his fellow assassins kidnap the daughter of an electronics mogul, it's naturally Melvin who takes the fall when their prime score turns sour. That's because the girl is the goddaughter of the gang's ruthless crime boss. But, even while dodging bullets, Melvin has to keep his real job secret from his unsuspecting fiancée, Pam.
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Ruby Bridges
Title: Ruby Bridges
Character: Lucielle 'Lucy' Bridges
Released: January 18, 1998
Type: Movie
When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the first time.
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Legal Deceit
Title: Legal Deceit
Released: November 18, 1997
Type: Movie
Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success;under the wing of Todd Hunter (Morgan) her career takes off. Sydney then gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder, but with the help of boyfriend Derek (Morris), she begins her own deception.
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Gang Related
Title: Gang Related
Character: Cynthia Webb
Released: October 8, 1997
Type: Movie
Two corrupt cops have a successful, seemingly perfect money making scheme- they sell drugs that they seize from dealers, kill the dealers, and blame the crimes on street gangs. Their scheme is going along smoothly until they kill an undercover DEA agent posing as a dealer, and then try to cover-up their crime.
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The Chamber
Title: The Chamber
Character: Nora Stark
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Title: The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Character: Self - Guest
Released: June 10, 1996
Type: TV
The Rosie O'Donnell Show was an American daytime television talk show hosted and produced by actress and comedian Rosie O'Donnell. It aired for six seasons from 1996 to 2002. Topics often discussed on the show include Broadway, children, extended families and charitable works, people and organizations. The show was based out of Studio 8G at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York City, NY, USA and was produced and syndicated by KidRo Productions, Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
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Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Title: Mr. and Mrs. Loving
Character: Mildred 'Bean' Jeter
Released: March 13, 1996
Type: Movie
A moving and uplifting drama about the effects of interracial marriage in the 1960s. Friends since childhood, and loved by both families, this couple are exiled after their wedding and have to wage a courageous battle to find their place in America as a loving family.
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Waiting to Exhale
Title: Waiting to Exhale
Character: Robin
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Cheated on, mistreated and stepped on, the women are holding their breath, waiting for the elusive "good man" to break a string of less-than-stellar lovers. Friends and confidants Vannah, Bernie, Glo and Robin talk it all out, determined to find a better way to breathe.
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Title: The Outer Limits
Character: Beth Carter
Released: March 26, 1995
Type: TV
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
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Title: Intimate Portrait
Character: Self
Released: November 14, 1993
Type: TV
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
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The Meteor Man
Title: The Meteor Man
Character: Vanessa
Released: August 6, 1993
Type: Movie
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the information in any book ... for about thirty seconds. Now his friends and family want him to protect their community from the dreaded Golden Lords.
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Title: Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Character: Paula
Released: September 22, 1992
Type: TV
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The show took place in Curry's hometown of Oakland, California. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper was produced by Jeff Franklin Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television, and also became produced by Bickley-Warren Productions by the third season. The show originally aired on Tuesdays in prime time after sister series Full House. The show found its niche as an addition to the already successful TGIF Friday night lineup on ABC, and was part of the lineup from September 1993 to May 1996, before moving to Saturdays for its fifth and final season.
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Title: Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
Released: September 22, 1992
Type: TV
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper is an American television sitcom that originally aired on ABC from 1992 to 1997, starring Mark Curry and Holly Robinson. The show took place in Curry's hometown of Oakland, California. Hangin' with Mr. Cooper was produced by Jeff Franklin Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television, and also became produced by Bickley-Warren Productions by the third season. The show originally aired on Tuesdays in prime time after sister series Full House. The show found its niche as an addition to the already successful TGIF Friday night lineup on ABC, and was part of the lineup from September 1993 to May 1996, before moving to Saturdays for its fifth and final season.
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Title: Out All Night
Character: Victoria
Released: September 19, 1992
Type: TV
Out All Night is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from September 19, 1992 to July 9, 1993 for one season. The series stars Patti LaBelle, and was created by Andy Borowitz, Susan Borowitz, and Rob Edwards.
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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Character: Christie
Released: June 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill.
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Title: Detective Extralarge
Character: Wendy
Released: November 12, 1991
Type: TV
Extralarge is a television series starring Bud Spencer, Michael Winslow and Philip Michael Thomas.
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Title: Roc
Character: Carol
Released: August 25, 1991
Type: TV
Roc is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on Fox from August 1991 to May 1994. The series stars Charles S. Dutton as Baltimore garbage collector Roc Emerson and Ella Joyce as his wife Eleanor.
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Title: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Character: Cindy
Released: September 10, 1990
Type: TV
Will, a street-smart teenager, moves from the tough streets of West Philly to posh Bel-Air to live with his Uncle Philip, Aunt Vivian, his cousins — spoiled Hilary, preppy Carlton and young Ashley — and their sophisticated British butler, Geoffrey. Though Will’s antics and upbringing contrast greatly with the upper-class lifestyle of his extended relatives, he soon finds himself right at home as a loved part of the family.
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Harlem Nights
Title: Harlem Nights
Character: Sunshine
Released: November 17, 1989
Type: Movie
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangsters and corrupt police who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organised crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Mercedes
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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The Wild Pair
Title: The Wild Pair
Character: Debby
Released: December 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A strait-laced FBI agent and a hulking, big-hearted narcotics cop team up to track down a drug lord associated with a militant hate group.
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Title: 21 Jump Street
Character: Denise Price
Released: April 12, 1987
Type: TV
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
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Into the Homeland
Title: Into the Homeland
Character: Exquisite Woman
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.
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Stewardess School
Title: Stewardess School
Character: School Instructor
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
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Foxtrap
Title: Foxtrap
Character: Lindy
Released: February 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Private detective is hired by rich man to find his niece, who has disappeared while traveling in Europe.
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Title: 227
Released: September 14, 1985
Type: TV
A housewife sits on the stoop of her apartment building in a black neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and discusses all manner of things with her neighbors.
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A Bunny's Tale
Title: A Bunny's Tale
Character: Charlotte
Released: February 25, 1985
Type: Movie
A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
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Title: The Cosby Show
Released: September 20, 1984
Type: TV
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
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Breakin'
Title: Breakin'
Character: Extra in First Scene (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
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Title: The Facts of Life
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: TV
The Facts of Life is an American sitcom that originally ran on the NBC television network from August 24, 1979, to May 7, 1988, making it the longest running sitcom of the 1980s. A spin-off of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, the series' premise focuses on Edna Garrett as she becomes a housemother at the fictional Eastland School, an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York.
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Title: Carl Weber's The Family Business: New Orleans
Character: Big Shirley Duncan
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV