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| Kimberly Elise (born Kimberly Elise Trammel on April 17, 1967) is an American actress. Elise was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Marvin Trammel, who owned an executive search firm, and Erma; she has three siblings. Elise's first movie was Set It Off (1996), in which she played one of four women who resort to robbing a bank for money. Following that she played a role in Beloved, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover. In 2004, she appeared in Woman Thou Art Loosed portraying Michelle, an abused young woman who finally got the help she needed behind bars. This role won her a Black Reel award for best actress. She has since appeared in The Manchurian Candidate and Diary of a Mad Black Woman (for which she has won a NAACP Image Award) Currently, she stars on the CBS crime drama Close to Home, playing Marion County prosecutor Maureen Scotfield, the superior of the show's main character, fellow prosecutor Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan). She made a guest appearance on the sitcom Girlfriends in which she played an HIV-positive woman. |
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