Tasha Smith
- Acting
- February 28, 1971 · Camden, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Tasha Smith (born February 28, 1971) is an American actress and director. She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series Boston Common (1996–97). In film, Smith has appeared in The Whole Ten Yards (2004), Daddy's Little Girls (2007), The Longshots (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), Jumping the Broom (2011), Addicted (2014) and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films Why Did I Get Married? (2007), its sequel Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010), and on the television series based on the movies, For Better or Worse (2011–2017). From 2015 to 2020, she had a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series Empire.
Known for
Filmography
- Give Me Some Sugah · Director
- Why Did I Get Married Again? · Angela
- Twinless · Charlotte
- Escape Room
- Desire: A Temptations Story · Kendra
- The Deliverance · Pastor Powell
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die · Theresa
- Survival of the Thickest · Marley, Director
- Sherri · Self
- Mayor of Kingstown · Director
- BMF · Executive producer, Director
- Our Kind of People · Director
- Big Sky · Director
- P-Valley · Director
- Dolemite Is My Name · Jimmy's Wife
- First Wives Club · Savannah
- The One You Never Forget · Mom
- Running Out of Time · Brenda
- The Rookie · Director
- Black Lightning · Director
- 9-1-1 · Gabi Bond, Director
- Snowed Inn Christmas · Simone Jenkins
- When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story · Director
- Polaris · Sophie
- Star · Carol Hardaway, Director
- Stock Option · LaTonja
- Boxed in · Executive producer, Writer
- Empire · Carol Hardaway
- Addicted · Marcella
- Power · Jarita
- Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse · Angela Williams
- Hell Week · Marla
- Jumping the Broom · Shonda
- Glory Daze · Self
- Something Like A Business · Angela
- Why Did I Get Married Too? · Angela
- Couples Retreat · Jennifer
- Pastor Brown · Angelique Todd
- RuPaul's Drag Race · Self
- The Longshots · Claire Plummer
- Why Did I Get Married? · Angela
- Daddy's Little Girls · Jennifer Jackson
- Playas Ball · Vonda
- Love and Other Four Letter Words · Lucille
- Glass House: The Good Mother · Caseworker
- You, Me and Dupree · Co-Worker (uncredited)
- ATL · Gayle
- Miles from Home · Keisha Knight
- The Tyra Banks Show · Self
- Second Time Around · Laura
- The Whole Ten Yards · Julie
- Nip/Tuck · Carol Nelson
- America's Next Top Model · Self
- Punk'd · Self
- Without a Trace · Veronica
- Girlfriends · Shandara Durrani
- The Corner · Veronica "Ronnie" Boice
- The Parkers
- Chameleon II: Death Match · Webster, IBI Director
- Max Q: Emergency Landing · Karen Daniels
- The Tom Show · Tanya Cole
- Malcolm & Eddie
- The Steve Harvey Show · Kimberly Davis
- Boston Common · Tasha King
- Let It Be Me · Student
- Chicago Hope · Denise Potter
- American Music Awards · Self
- Women Like Us · Director