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New York City, New York, USA

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New York City, New York, USA

 More at IMDbPro » Jonelle Allen is an American actress, singer, and dancer.Born in New York City, Allen grew up in Harlem's Sugar Hill in a neighborhood that included Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and Johnny Hodges, and NAACP founder Walter White. She made her Broadway debut at the age of six in The Wisteria Trees, Joshua Logan's Americanized adaptation of The Cherry Orchard starring Helen Hayes. As a child, she also made regular appearances on a local children's television series, The Merry Mailman, hosted by Ray Heatherton.Allen returned to Broadway for a revival of Finian's Rainbow. She was in the cast of the original off-Broadway production of Hair at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and also appeared in George M! before receiving critical acclaim and a Tony Award nomination for Two Gentlemen of Verona, which earned her New York Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Theatre World, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance. Despite her success, it proved to be her last Broadway appearance to date.Allen's film credits include Cotton Comes to Harlem, The Hotel New Hampshire, and The River Niger, for which she won an NAACP Image Award. Other television appearances include Barney Miller, The Love Boat, All in the Family, Trapper John, M.D., Hill Street Blues, Cagney and Lacey, ER, and Girlfriends. She played a lesbian prison inmate in the 1975 television movie Cage Without a Key, which starred Susan Dey.Her most notable roles are Grace, the entrepreneurial cafe owner in the old west, that she played for seven years on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, as well as the flamboyant and outspoken Doreen Jackson on the NBC soap opera, Generations and Lucinda Cavender, the vampire witch in the horror comedy film The Midnight Hour. Before her role of Doreen on Generations, Jonelle played ambitious salesgirl turned boutique manager Stacey Russell, on the short-lived primetime soap, Berrenger's.Allen appeared as the legendary Harlem Jazz Queen Florence Mills in Harlem Renaissance at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Ms. Allen is currently heading up the New Works//Staged Reading Projects at Saddleback College, and is also writing and directing new shows which Ms. Allen calls "plays with music' which have been presented at Saddleback, notably an adaptation of Dickens Christmas Carol and The Journey both with composer, David Anthony Martin. This year, Ms. Allen has a film The Divorce by Donald B. Welch, being released on Amazon, and this summer, Ms. Allen will be starring in Hello Dolly at Saddlebacks CLO. Later this year, Ms. Allen will be starring in Donald B. Welch's Secret Garden, and doing an updated version of her Florence Mills one woman show, which Ms. Allen is writing with her collaborator, Stevi Meredith. 
Full NameNew York City, New York, USA

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Net Worth$300,000
OccupationActress, singer, dancer
ProfessionActress
NicknamesJonelle Allen, Allen, Jonelle
#Fact
1Was nominated for Broadway's 1972 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for "Two Gentlemen of Verona."
Jonelle Allen

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie1999TV MovieGrace
Next Time1998Evelyn
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman1993-1998TV SeriesGrace
The Eddie Files1997TV SeriesEddie's Music Teacher
The Trials of Rosie O'Neill1992TV SeriesLoretta
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive1992TV MovieMadeline Garrick
The Royal Family1992TV SeriesNina Martin
Generations1989TV SeriesDoreen Jackson
Werewolf1987TV SeriesEmily
The Hitchhiker1987TV SeriesSunny
The Penalty Phase1986TV MovieSusan Jansen
New Love, American Style1986TV Series
The Midnight Hour1985TV MovieLucinda Cavender
Berrenger's1985TV SeriesStacey Russell
Cagney & Lacey1983-1984TV SeriesClaudia Petrie / Elizabeth Carter
The Hotel New Hampshire1984Sabrina
Hill Street Blues1984TV SeriesLinda Talbot
Trapper John, M.D.1982TV SeriesJane Doe
Victims1982TV MovieMaydene Jariott
Palmerstown, U.S.A.1980-1981TV SeriesBessie Freeman
Perfectly Frank1981TV Movie
Brave New World1980TV MovieFanny Crowne
Vampire1979TV MovieBrandy
The White Shadow1979TV SeriesShelley
All in the Family1978TV SeriesMarabel
The Love Boat1978TV SeriesAndrea Martin
What's Happening!!1978TV SeriesLove-is-Life
The American Woman: Portraits of Courage1976TV MovieRosa Parks
Joe Forrester1976TV Series
The River Niger1976Ann Vanderguild
Police Story1975TV SeriesMerrilly Goodwin / Mary Sue
Barney Miller1975TV SeriesOfficer Turner
Foster and Laurie1975TV MovieJacqueline Foster
Police Woman1974-1975TV SeriesMaxine Fuller / Laurette Blake
Cage Without a Key1975TV MovieTommy
The Wide World of Mystery1974TV SeriesEva
Come Back, Charleston Blue1972Carol
The Coming Asunder of Jimmy Bright1971TV Movie
The Cross and the Switchblade1970Bishop Deb
Cotton Comes to Harlem1970Secretary
Spotlight 22016Short post-productionAnna
American Crime Story2016TV SeriesMom Darden
Dr. Quinn, Morphine Woman with Jane Seymour2014Short
The Divorce2014TV MovieThelma Massey
Float2008Madge
Girlfriends2007TV SeriesEleanor
As Seen on TV2005ShortShauna
ER2000-2003TV SeriesDebbie Marlin
Mr. Barrington2003Mother Anne
Strong Medicine2002TV SeriesConnie
Flossin2001Viola
Blues for Red1999Dora
Twice in a Lifetime1999TV SeriesDr. Grace Grant-Heistings, M.D. / Nurse Daisy Bradford

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Molly Marcy2007TV MovieHerself
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years2004Video documentaryHerself
All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade1997TV SpecialHerself
The 11th Annual Black Achievement Awards1990TV SpecialHerself
Body Language1985TV SeriesHerself
Battle of the Network Stars VIII1980TV SpecialHerself - CBS Team
Match Game PM1980TV SeriesHerself - Panelist
The Jim Nabors Show1978TV SeriesHerself
The Peter Marshall Variety Show1976TV SeriesHerself
Dinah!1976TV SeriesHerself
Cotton Club '751974TV MovieHerself
The Mike Douglas Show1974TV SeriesHerself - Actress
NBC Follies1973TV SeriesHerself
The 26th Annual Tony Awards1972TV SpecialHerself
The David Frost Show1972TV SeriesHerself

Archive Footage

Known for movies

Grace

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993-1998)
as Grace

Evelyn

Next Time (1998)
as Evelyn

Viola

Flossin (2001)
as Viola

Ann Vanderguild

The River Niger (1976)
as Ann Vanderguild

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