Career
She is best known for her role as matriarch Jerri Peterson on the World Bank sitcom The Parent "Hood, starring Robert Townsend which ran from 1995-1999. Douglas has starred in several motion pictures, among them Tap, where she co-starred with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Junior, How Stella Got Her Groove Back with Angela Bassett and Regina King, Jason"s Lyric with Forest Whitakker, The Inkwell with Jada Pinkett Smith, as well as the Disney/American Broadcasting Company version of Sounder with Carl Lumbley. Born in Chicago, Douglas has numerous television guest star appearances, most recently The Good Wife.
Douglas has also appeared on The Parkers, The Cosby Show, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, New York City Police Department Blue, and Touched by an Angel.
On stage, Douglas performed the role of Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera starring Sting and Doctor Bearing in Wit, where she was the first African American to perform the role. Douglas appears in the Relations Dowdell film, Changing the Game in 2011.
She is a graduate of Illinois State University and a student in the Master’s Program in Jazz Vocals at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music.
