βOlivia Margarette Brown (born April 10, 1960) is an American actress. Brown was born in Frankfurt, Germany and raised in Livonia, Michigan, United States. Her family eventually moved to California and she is also a graduate of Santa Monica High School. She played Det. Trudy Joplin on Miami Vice and Vanessa Hargraves on Designing Women. She also played a recurring character on 7th Heaven. She also played a recurring character on Moesha which she played Barbara Lee. She has also acted in several films, including Throw Momma from the Train, 48 Hrs., All Tied Up, and Streets of Fire. She guest starred in an episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as a psychic named Starr She was married to Mykelti Williamson for two years. Her brother is Steve Brown, who played for the Houston Oilers of the NFL during the late 1980s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Olivia Brown, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Throw Momma from the Train
1987
48 Hrs.
1982
Streets of Fire
1984
All Tied Up
1994
Not Easily Broken
2009
Memories of Murder
1990
Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984
Jackers
2011
Our Dream Christmas
2017
Blue Lightning
2023
Kid Paranormal
N/A
Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
1999
Noxious
2018