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Anna Maria Horsford

Date of birth: 1947-03-06

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Anna Horsford, Anna Marie Horsford, آنا ماریا هورسفورد

Anna Maria Horsford

Biography

Anna Maria Horsford is an American actress, known for her performances in television comedies. Horsford is best known for her roles as Thelma Frye on the NBC sitcom Amen (1986–91), and as Dee Baxter on the WB sitcom The Wayans Bros. (1995–99). She had dramatic roles on the FX crime drama The Shield playing A.D.A. Beth Encardi, and CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful as Vivienne Avant, for which she was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Guest Performer in a Drama Series in 2016 and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2017. Horsford appeared in a number of movies, most notable as Craig Jones' mother Betty in 1995 comedy film Friday and its sequel Friday After Next (2002). Her other film credits include Times Square (1980), The Fan (1981), Presumed Innocent (1990), Set It Off (1996), Along Came a Spider (2001), Our Family Wedding (2010), and A Madea Christmas (2013).

Movie Credits

Starstruck
0

Starstruck

1981-10-14

Aspiring teen folk singer is torn whether to continue her singing or to accept an educational schola

Bill
3.3

Bill

1981-12-22

Bill, an intellectually disabled man, ventures out into the world for the first time, having spent m

Friday
3.5

Friday

1995-04-26

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoki

Presumed Innocent
3.4

Presumed Innocent

1990-07-27

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered.

Class
3

Class

1983-07-22

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the sma

One Fine Day
3.2

One Fine Day

1996-12-20

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father

I Tried
3.7

I Tried

2007-10-27

What if Bone Thugs N harmony never got to audition for Eazy E. What would their outcome have been. T

How High
3.1

How High

2001-12-21

Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams wi

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
2.5

Nutty Professor II: The Klumps

2000-07-27

The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Ga

Muggable Mary: Street Cop
3.5

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

1982-02-25

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns,

The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
2.4

The Bitch Who Stole Christmas

2021-12-02

A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a stor

Jacked Up
3.6

Jacked Up

2001-01-01

A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so,

Broken Bridges
3.7

Broken Bridges

2006-09-08

A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart

Set It Off
3.6

Set It Off

1996-11-06

Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule —

Guarding Eddy
2.3

Guarding Eddy

2004-06-24

A developmentally handicapped young man comes to L.A. to pursue his dream of playing professional ba

Stone Pillow
3.4

Stone Pillow

1985-11-05

A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social w

Love Child
2.5

Love Child

1982-10-15

The true-story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "fiv

Directors on Directing
0

Directors on Directing

2009-09-24

A look at the development of film making and its contribution to the social and political times form

C'mon Man
3.5

C'mon Man

2012-06-26

Chronicles the rise, fall and attempted rise again of a stand up comedian plagued by his own demons.

An Almost Perfect Affair
2

An Almost Perfect Affair

1979-04-27

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer a

Justice
3

Justice

2004-05-12

Public defender Carter (Roger Smith) has had all he can take dealing with a corrupt judicial system.

A Madea Christmas
3.3

A Madea Christmas

2013-12-13

Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a fri

A Case of Deadly Force
0

A Case of Deadly Force

1986-04-09

Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Uni

Summer Switch
0

Summer Switch

1984-09-19

Father and son magically switch personalities with comical results.

Vacation Friends
3.5

Vacation Friends

2021-08-27

When a straight-laced couple that has fun with a rowdy couple on vacation in Mexico return to the St

C.A.T. Squad
1.9

C.A.T. Squad

1986-07-27

When terrorists start killing scientists who are working on NATO's laser defense program, an elite t

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom
0

Charlotte Forten's Mission: Experiment in Freedom

1985-02-25

At the beginning of the Civil War, Union gunboats sailed into Port Royal Sound, on the Sea Islands o

Me Time
2.9

Me Time

2022-08-26

With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his ha

Widow's Kiss
2

Widow's Kiss

1996-01-18

Haunted by his mother's recent death, a young man becomes suspicious of his wealthy father's sexy, n

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
1.8

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

1996-01-26

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the d

Taken Away
0

Taken Away

1989-11-04

A young single mother has to work late one night. Her daughter begs her to allow her to stay alone i

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story
2.8

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

1992-01-06

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story (TV) Edmund Perry appears to have things all going his

Mr. Jones
2.9

Mr. Jones

1993-10-08

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor wh

Friday After Next
3.2

Friday After Next

2002-11-22

Craig and his cousin Day Day have finally moved out of their parents' houses and into their own crib

St. Elmo's Fire
3.1

St. Elmo's Fire

1985-06-28

Reluctant to let go of college life, a close-knit team of seven friends--irresponsible saxophone pla

The Fan
2.9

The Fan

1981-05-15

A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen. However, when faced with

Dear God
2.8

Dear God

1996-11-01

A judge gives con-man Tom Turner a choice—a jail sentence, or a year of honest work. But when he get

Will I See You Again?
0

Will I See You Again?

2024-08-08

Two former friends find themselves summoned to their late friend's estate hearing. To claim their in

Times Square
3.2

Times Square

1980-10-17

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways

Baby Brokers
3.1

Baby Brokers

1994-02-21

A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn

A Doctor's Story
3

A Doctor's Story

1984-04-23

A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

Who Gets the Friends?
2

Who Gets the Friends?

1988-05-10

Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've

Our Family Wedding
2.8

Our Family Wedding

2010-03-12

The weeks leading up to a young couple's wedding is comic and stressful, especially as their respect

Chasing the Blues
2.8

Chasing the Blues

2018-10-05

Two rival record collectors attempt to con an old lady out of a rare but cursed 1930s blues record.

Single AF
3.3

Single AF

2018-05-14

A plethora of single people connected through a dating app meet their judgement day based on their s

Minority Report
3.7

Minority Report

2002-06-20

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes b

A Killer Among Us
1.5

A Killer Among Us

1990-10-29

Theresa is one of the twelve jurors who have to decide about a case of assassination. She believes v

Street Smart
3

Street Smart

1987-03-20

A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.

Masquerade
5

Masquerade

2000-11-10

After moving to LA, a young woman starts a romance with a man she met on the internet. Trouble brews

Crackers
2.3

Crackers

1984-02-17

Down-and-out Weslake is reduced to minding the counter at a San Francisco pawn shop when he stumbles

My Big Phat Hip Hop Family
0.5

My Big Phat Hip Hop Family

2005-03-08

Audrey is a typical music student at a large Midwestern college, interested in pursuing a career in

Ganked
2.2

Ganked

2005-06-07

Aspiring songwriter Ricky Barry (Kel Mitchell) finally gets the break he's been waiting for when he

Heartburn
3

Heartburn

1986-07-25

She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper column

Wigger
0

Wigger

2010-04-09

"Wigger" is a spellbinding urban drama, which chronicles the life of a young, White, male (Brandon)

Benny's Place
5

Benny's Place

1982-05-31

Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work

Gridiron Gang
3.5

Gridiron Gang

2006-09-15

Under the leadership of their counselor, teenagers at a juvenile detention center gain self-esteem b

Along Came a Spider
3.2

Along Came a Spider

2001-04-06

After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross c

Kiss the Girls
3.3

Kiss the Girls

1997-09-29

Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidn

Hollow Image
1.8

Hollow Image

1979-06-24

A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life

Lockdown
3

Lockdown

2000-09-15

Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But

A Kindred Soul
0

A Kindred Soul

2017-12-09

The impacts of having loved never leave you. A mother struggles with the loss of her son on Thanksgi

Gladys Brown
0

Gladys Brown

2017-05-10

After being cheated out of her dream job, a long-suffering receptionist plots revenge.

At Face Value
0

At Face Value

Set during the day of the infamous O. J. Simpson white Bronco low-speed chase, At Face Value focuses

Jalen Vs. Everybody
0

Jalen Vs. Everybody

2017-06-06

Follows former NBA star and current TV personality Jalen Rose as he juggles his career responsibilit

Deaf Heaven
0.5

Deaf Heaven

1993-04-14

Paul’s lover Matthew is dying of AIDS and is suffering from dementia. When Paul meets Jake in the st

SUNNYSIDE UP
0

SUNNYSIDE UP

2019-12-03

Unexpected Christmas
0

Unexpected Christmas

2025-11-07

Fresh off a recent breakup, Marissa Scott's return home takes an unexpected twist when her ex-boyfri

Martin: The Reunion
4.5

Martin: The Reunion

2022-12-16

This special takes a look at the show’s origin and evolution, through interviews with the cast and o