Movie Credits
Slipstream	(2007)
[ Fionnula Flanagan ][ Camryn Manheim ]
Black Snake Moan	(2007)
[ Christina Ricci ]
Hindsight	(2006)
[ Annie Parisse ]
Kingmaker	(2006)
[ Annie Parisse ]
Positive	(2006)
[ Annie Parisse ]
Thinking Makes It So	(2006)
[ Annie Parisse ]
Lackawanna Blues	(2005)
[ Rosie Perez ][ Patricia Wettig ][ Julie Benz ][ Macy Gray ]
Jersey Girl	(2004)
[ Jennifer Lopez ][ Liv Tyler ][ Jennifer Schwalbach Smith ]
Radio	(2003)
[ Debra Winger ][ Alfre Woodard ][ Sarah Drew ]
Law & Order II: Double or Nothing	(2003)
[ Kath Soucie ]
Badge	(2002)
Law & Order: Dead on the Money	(2002)
[ Kath Soucie ]
The Rising Place	(2001)
[ Beth Grant ][ Laurel Holloman ][ Elise Neal ]
Random Hearts	(1999)
[ Blair Brown ][ Ellen Foley ][ Tracey Kneale ][ Kristin Scott-Thomas ][ Bonnie Hunt ]
An Unexpected Life	(1998)
[ Stockard Channing ][ Jenifer Lewis ]
Exiled	(1998)
[ Nicole Ari Parker ][ Barbara Harris ]
Breaking Through	(1996)
[ Kellie Martin ][ Jo Beth Williams ][ JoBeth Williams ]
A Mother's Prayer	(1995)
[ Linda Hamilton ][ Kate Nelligan ][ Gail Strickland ]
A Place for Annie	(1994)
[ Mary Louise Parker ][ Sissy Spacek ][ Mary-Louise Parker ][ Joan Plowright ]
It's Nothing Personal	(1993)
[ Claire Bloom ][ Veronica Cartwright ][ Amanda Donohoe ][ Patricia Kluge ]
Terminator 2: Judgment Day	(1991)
[ Nikki Cox ][ Linda Hamilton ][ Jenette Goldstein ]
Jacob's Ladder	(1990)
[ Elizabeth Pena ][ Elizabeth Peña ][ Barbara Harris ]
Navy Seals	(1990)
[ Cathryn De-Prume ][ Joanne Whalley-Kilmer ][ Joanne Whalley ]
Equal Justice	(1990)
[ Lisa Cutter ][ Debrah Farentino ][ Kathy Lloyd ][ Sarah Jessica Parker ][ Jane Kaczmarek ]
Loose Cannons	(1990)
[ Nancy Travis ]
Moe's World	(1990)
[ Tisha Campbell ][ Jada Pinkett ][ Jada Pinkett Smith ]
Elysian Fields	(1989)
[ Judith Hoag ]
She's Gotta Have It	(1986)
[ Tracy Camilla Johns ][ Joie Lee ]

A native of Michigan, S. Epatha Merkerson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Wayne State University. In 1978, she moved to New York City to apply her craft on stage. Although best known since 1993 as the smart and shrewd Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on the long-running TV crime drama "Law & Order" (1990), she has a long list of Broadway and off-Broadway credits and honors that include Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations for Best Actress for her performance in the August Wilson play The Piano Lesson (1995) (TV), a 1992 Obie Award for her performance in "I'm Not Stupid," and a 1998 Helen Hayes Award for her starring role in the Studio Theater production in Washington, DC, of the John Henry Redwood play "The Old Settler." Her first appearance on television was a guest-starring role on an episode of "The Cosby Show" (1984). Her earliest regular role in television, however, was that of Reba the Mail Woman on "Pee-wee's Playhouse" (1986). Merkerson remains a theatrical force on the stage and on the screen and has the distinction of having been nominated for an Image Award in the Outstanding-Lead-Actress-in-a-Drama category for "Law & Order" (1990) for three consecutive years by the NAACP.