Kimberly Elise

Kimberly Elise played Dr. Swender in the fifth season of Grey's Anatomy and Angie Paget in the season one episode "In Which Charlotte Goes Down the Rabbit Hole" of Private Practice.

Biography
Born on April 17, 1967 to Erma Jean and Marvin Trammel, Elise grew up together with three siblings in Minneapolis. Elise's maternal descent is of the Songhai people. She studied Film and Acting at the University of Minnesota and earned a BA in Mass Communications.

In 1989, Kimberly married Maurice Oldham, with whom she had two daughter: AjaBlue Oldham (born in 1990) and Butterfly Rose Oldham (born in 1998). They divorced in 2005.

Filmography

 * Event 15 (2013)
 * Highland Park (2013)
 * Hannah's Law (TV Movie) (2012)
 * Ties That Bind (2011)
 * For Colored Girls (2010)
 * Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
 * The Great Debaters (2007)
 * Pride (2007)
 * Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
 * The Manchurian Candidate (2005)
 * Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
 * John Q (2002)
 * Bojangles (TV Movie) (2001)
 * Bait (2000)
 * The Loretta Claiborne Story (TV Movie) (2000)
 * Beloved (1998)
 * The Ditchdigger's Daughter (TV Movie) (1997)
 * Set It Off (1996)

Television

 * Hit the Floor (2013)
 * Hawthorne (2011)
 * Grey's Anatomy (2009)
 * Masters of Science Fiction (2007)
 * Private Practice (2007)
 * Close to Home (2005-2007)
 * Soul Food (2002-2003)
 * Girlfriends (2003)
 * The Twilight Zone (2003)
 * The Sentinel (1996)
 * In the House (1995)
 * Newton's Apple (1995)