She next had a leading role in the independent drama Woman Thou Art Loosed portraying Michelle, an abused young woman who finally got the help she needed behind bars. It became a box office success, grossing over $100 million. In 2002, Elise starred alongside Denzel Washington in the crime film John Q.
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In 2002-2003, she made guest appearances on the UPN comedy series Girlfriends in which she played an HIV-positive woman, and in the Showtime drama Soul Food. The following year, she starred opposite Gregory Hines in the biographical drama Bojangles.
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Later that year, she was female lead in Jamie Foxx's movie Bait, the film was a huge financial failure, and received mostly negative reviews from critics. She received good reviews for performance as Claiborne. The movie was aired as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney at ABC in early 2000. In 2000, Elise went to star in The Loretta Claiborne Story playing Loretta Claiborne. She also received her first NAACP Image Award nomination.
Despite being a box office bomb, Elise received praise for her performance, and well as Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Actress and Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. Her performance helped her land a role the next year in Beloved alongside Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover, a horror-drama film based on Toni Morrison's 1987 novel of the same name, directed by Jonathan Demme. She received critical acclaim for her role in this film, and in 1997, she was recognized as Best Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries at the 19th annual CableACE Awards. In 1997 she was cast in the Family Channel original television movie The Ditchdigger's Daughters, based on the Pulitzer-prize nominated and critically acclaimed 1995 memoir The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story, written by Yvonne S. Fox co-stars in film which became a critical and box office success, grossing over $41 million. Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah and Vivica A. Gary Gray, in which she played one of four women who resort to robbing a bank for money.
Career 1990s Įlise made her big screen debut in the 1996 crime action film Set It Off (1996) directed by F. She attended The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow and at the University of Minnesota earned a BA in Mass Communications. Elise was born as Kimberly Elise Trammel in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Erma Jean ( née Johnson), an elementary school teacher, and Marvin Trammel, who owns an executive search firm.
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