Erika Alexander

Born: 1969-11-19

Erika Rose Alexander (born November 19, 1969) is an American actress, writer, producer, entrepreneur and activist best known for her roles as Pam Tucker on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1990–1992), and Maxine Shaw on the Fox sitcom Living Single (1993–1998). She has won numerous awards for her work on Living Single, including two NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include The Long Walk Home (1990), 30 Years to Life (2001), Déjà Vu (2006), Get Out (2017), American Refugee (2021), Earth Mama (2023) and American Fiction (2023), for which she received Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance nomination.


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as Detective Latoya
Released: 2017-02-24

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris...

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American Fiction

as Coraline
Released: 2023-11-10

A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to...

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as Shanti
Released: 2006-11-22

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry,...

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as Lieutenant Davis
Released: 2019-09-11

When a 10-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the...

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as Ciel
Released: 1998-08-28

Shane, a Jersey boy with big dreams, crosses the river in hopes of finding a more exciting life...

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Full Frontal

as Lucy
Released: 2002-08-02

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a...

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The Long Walk Home

as Selma Cotter
Released: 1990-12-21

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in...

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Elsa & Fred

as Laverne
Released: 2014-03-07

After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a...

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Wildflower

as Mary
Released: 2023-03-17

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually...

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Love Liza

as Brenda
Released: 2002-12-30

Following the unexplained suicide of his wife Liza, website designer Wilson Joel turns to...

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He Said, She Said

as Rita, Al's Daugther
Released: 1991-02-22

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun....

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Earth Mama

as Miss Carmen
Released: 2023-07-07

A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as...

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Fathers and Sons

as Venell
Released: 1992-01-01

A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a...

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American Refugee

as Helen Taylor
Released: 2021-12-10

A story of a family seeking shelter in a neighbor’s bunker while the American economy is in...

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Common Ground

as Cassandra Twymon
Released: 1990-03-25

Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of...

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Override

as Shawana
Released: 1994-10-16

Override is a 1994 American science fiction short film. It was the directorial debut of Danny...

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My Little Girl

as Joan
Released: 1986-08-31

A young girl agrees to work in a center for girls who can't stay with their parents. She gets...

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The Cosby Show: A Look Back

as Pam Tucker (archive footage)
Released: 2002-05-19

A retrospective of the phenomenally popular 1984-1992 situation comedy, "The Cosby Show,"...

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The Last Best Year

as Amy
Released: 1990-11-04

Jane (Bernadette Peters) has a dizzy spell while at home. As her condition does not improve, she...

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We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama

as uncredited
Released: 2014-02-11

The Election of President Barack Obama began on March 5, 1770 at the Boston Massacre with the...

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Secrets of the Magic City

as Ms. Fletcher
Released: 2015-06-26

The Magic City, by Director R. Malcolm Jones, is a motion picture based on hope and resilience...

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Brave New Jersey

as Helen Holbrook
Released: 2017-08-04

A comedy that tells the story of a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles' famed...

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30 Years to Life

as uncredited
Released: 2001-09-04

First of all, the title does not refer to someone sentenced to jail. It is a movie about 6...

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Knitwits Revisited

as Amina
Released: 1999-01-01

KnitWits Revisited brings us back to the KnitWits' knitting store.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Kema Mabuda
First aired: 1999-09-20

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In...

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Law & Order

as Doris Carver
First aired: 1990-09-13

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing...

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Grey's Anatomy

as Johanna McKay
First aired: 2005-03-27

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...

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The Jennifer Hudson Show

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-09-12

Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as A.D.A. Kirkson
First aired: 2000-10-06

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the...

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CSI: Miami

as uncredited
First aired: 2002-09-23

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as...

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Bosch

as Connie Irving
First aired: 2015-01-14

Based on Michael Connelly's best-selling novels, these are the stories of relentless LAPD...

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The Cosby Show

as Pam Tucker
First aired: 1984-09-20

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for...

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Criminal Minds

as Lynne Henderson
First aired: 2005-09-22

An elite team of FBI profilers analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating...

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House

as Ms. Fields
First aired: 2004-11-16

Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of...

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Suits

as Sarah Leighton
First aired: 2011-06-23

While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips...

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Last Man Standing

as Carol
First aired: 2011-10-11

A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by...

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7th Heaven

as Lynn Miles
First aired: 1996-08-26

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven...

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Wu-Tang: An American Saga

as Linda Diggs
First aired: 2019-09-04

In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary...

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Numb3rs

as uncredited
First aired: 2005-01-23

Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and...

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The Zeta Project

as uncredited
First aired: 2001-01-27

Follow the futuristic adventures of Zeta, a renegade government-designed robot, and Ro, his...

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Judging Amy

as Fran Winston
First aired: 1999-09-19

Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through...

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ER

as Vatima Abika
First aired: 1994-09-19

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by...

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Black Lightning

as Perenna
First aired: 2018-01-16

Jefferson Pierce is a man wrestling with a secret. As the father of two daughters and principal...

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Shining Girls

as Abby
First aired: 2022-04-28

Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns...

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Run the World

as Barb
First aired: 2021-05-16

The story of a group of Black women who work, live, and play in Harlem as they strive for world...

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Half & Half

as Maxine Shaw
First aired: 2002-09-23

Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006....

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Living Single

as Maxine Shaw
First aired: 1993-08-29

Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network...

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Recovery Road

as Trish's Mother
First aired: 2016-01-25

Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t...

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In Justice

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-01-01

In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King....

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Heist

as uncredited
First aired: 2006-03-22

Heist is an American television series that premiered March 22, 2006, on NBC, but was almost...

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LAX

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-09-13

LAX is a television drama set at the Los Angeles International Airport and draws its name from...

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Street Time

as Dee Mulhern
First aired: 2002-06-23

Follows a fair parole officer and his parolee who wants to go straight but his former business...

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