Obba Babatundé
Known for: Acting
Born: December 1, 1951
Obba Babatundé (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor of stage and screen, known for his Emmy-nominated performance in the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, a NAACP Image Award-nominated performance in the TV movie Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, and a Tony Award-nominated role for his performance as C.C. White in the original cast of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls. Babatundé was a protege of Sammy Davis, Jr., who said of him, "This is the only cat who can do everything I can do." B…
Known for
One Special Moment
2001
Noble Intentions
2023
The Trap Door
2011
Death's Door
2015
The Importance of Being Earnest
1992
The Visit
2001
If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
2015
April Fools
2007
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
American Bad Boy
2015
Redeemer
2002
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History
2008
Dorothy Dandridge: An American Beauty
2003
Treemonisha
1982
An Evening with Liza Minnelli
1980
All The Men In My Life
2022
Love the Skin You're In
2025
Life
1999
How High
2001
Trapped: Haitian Nights
2011
God Bless the Child
1988
Joy Road
2011
Dolls of Voodoo
2013
Jingle Belle
2018
The Apartment Complex
1999
The Millennial
2022
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1999
The Last Fall
2012
The Tomorrow Man
1996
Mississippi Scholar
2024
Undercover Blues
1993
Start Without Me
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
2012
Trigger
2020
I Do... I Did!
2009
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
'Til Death Do Us Part
2017
M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994
Run
2025
Kiss Me for Christmas
2020
Material Girls
2006
The Eye
2008
Soul of the Game
1996
The Watcher
2016
Revival!
2018
Miami Blues
1990
That Thing You Do!
1996
People Not Places
Kangaroo Jack: G'Day, U.S.A.!
2004
A Reason to Believe
1995
Kinky
2018
The Christmas Showdown
2025
Philadelphia
1993
Fatal Pursuit
1995
The Cherokee Kid
1996
Cover
2007
Baryshnikov on Broadway
1980
After the Sunset
2004
Carpool
1996
Multiplicity
1996
Pup Star
2016
Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
2012
The Celestine Prophecy
2006
All Star Superman
2011
Born to Be Wild
1995
Lap Dance
2014
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
2025
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
John Q
2002
The Notebook
2004
Why Am I Doing This?
2009
Necronomicon
1993
Black Dynamite
2009
Married to the Mob
1988
Pup Star: Better 2Gether
2017
City of Lies
2018
Leonard Part 6
1987
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
The Net
1995
Friends
1994
Chicago Med
2015
Chicago Hope
1994
Family Law
1999
Static Shock
2000
Forever
2018
Goliath
2016
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Psych
2006
Kingdom
2014
Dawson's Creek
1998
The Outer Limits
1995
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990
Max Steel
2000
The Temptations
1998
S.W.A.T.
2017
The Good Fight
2017
A Different World
1987
Ballers
2015
Sliders
1995
For the People
2018
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993
Dear White People
2017
The Human Factor
1992
Everwood
2002
Enlisted
2014
Little Fires Everywhere
2020
Touched by an Angel
1994
Private Practice
2007
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
1992
Spy Game
1997
NCIS
2003
Madam Secretary
2014
Girlfriends
2000
Boston Legal
2004
Saving Grace
2007
Matlock
1986
Detroiters
2017