Cast & creator
Irma P. Hall
Best known for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Chicago Fire, Dallas
Irma P. Hall is an American film and television actress, best known for playing matriarchal figures in feature films like "A Family Thing", "Soul Food", and "The Ladykillers".
60
film credits
15
television credits
75
1951–2022 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (75)
Showing 75 of 75 credits
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Lorna Talcott
1999
Chicago Fire
Mrs. Grady
2012
Dallas
Tilly
1978
Touched by an Angel
Effie Taylor
1994
Judging Amy
Beverly Raymond
1999
The Bernie Mac Show
Aunt Liva
2001
7th Heaven
Hattie
1996
Harry's Law
Anna Nicholson
2011
Collateral
Ida Durocher
2004
Getting On
Cordelia Meade
2013
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Binnie Rogers
2009
Soul Food
Mama Joe
2000
Patch Adams
Joletta
1998
The Ladykillers
Marva Munson
2004
Nothing to Lose
Bertha "Mama" Davidson
1997
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Mae
1951
Backdraft
Nurse
1991
Bad Company
Mrs. Banks
2002
Hap and Leonard
Meemaw
2016
The Long Hot Summer
Cecilia Howlett
1985
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Minerva
1997
A Girl Thing
Housekeeper Alice
2001
Steel
Grandma Odessa
1997
Split Image
Maid
1982
All Souls
2001
Straight Talk
Ethel
1992
Buddy
Emma
1997
Hurricane Season
Grandma Rose
2010
Beloved
Ella
1998
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Mrs. Roberts
2010
Meet the Browns
Mildred
2008
To Sir, with Love II
Old Woman
1996
Mo' Money
Lady on Phone
1992
A Family Thing
Aunt T.
1996
The George McKenna Story
1988
The Love Letter
Mae Mullen
1998
Diary of a Single Mom
Dessa
2009
A Slipping Down Life
Clotelia
1999
New Life
Margaret
2016
Soul Food
Mother Joe
1997
In the Company of Darkness
Apartment Manager
1993
Crisis at Central High
Lulu Richards
1981
Blue Porcelain
Great-Grandma
2022
A Lesson Before Dying
Miss Emma
1999
Lady Luck
Mrs. Bailey
2017
Something to Sing About
Memaw
2000
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mammy
1987
Square Dance
Preacher Dixon
1987
They Still Call Me Bruce
Mrs. Brown
1987
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Mrs. Smith
1990
Uncross the Stars
Lulu
2008
Miss Lettie and Me
Rose Griffin
2002
Rain
Rosalie
2008
On Valentine's Day
Aunt Charity
1986
Steps of Faith
Dorothy Lee
2014
A Man Called Jon
Sadie Johnson
2015
A Rugrats Kwanzaa
Aunt T. (voice)
2001
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders II
Grandma Beaumont
1980
A Heart That Forgives
Ms. Gussie
2016
Changing the Game
Grandma Barnes
2012
An Unexpected Love
Mary
2003
Don't Let Go
Hazel
2002
Wolf
Brenda
2012
Concrete Kids
Nana
2018
Gift for the Living
Carrie Mae
2005
Jerico
Grandma
2016P.N.O.K.
Mildred Burnett
2005
Hiding in Plain Sight
Ida Mae Blackmon
2012
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
Dora
1979
Book of Numbers
Georgia Brown
1973
Our America
June Jones
2002
Broken Promise
Williston
1981
The Golden Voices
Georgia Mae Jackson
2018
Skyward
Mrs. Sinclair
1980
Uncommon
Aunt Shirley Bailey
2015