JoNell Kennedy

ActorWriter New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 1989–2025 (36 year career)

6.9 avg rating

Highest Rated

Chicago Fire

2012 · as Jasmine Lacey

8.4

The Mentalist

2008 · as Coroner Pat

8.4

The X-Files

1993 · as Dr. Amina Ngebe

8.4

Known For

Film

Collateral

Waitress

Film

Dreamgirls

Joann

Film

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Pam

Film

Guess Who

Winnie

Film

Impostor

Screaming Nurse (as Jonell Kennedy)

Film

Nocturne

Gordon

Film

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

Cathy

Film

Goodbye Lover

Evelyn

Filmography

Acting (56)

Movies (21)

Free for All: The Public Library

2025

as Self

Nocturne

as Gordon

Bolden

as Ida Bass

Una Great Movie

as Zoe

Myself When I Am Real

2017

The Last Two Lovers at the End of the World

In The Morning

as Amara

Fertile Ground

as Brittany McGraw

Proud American

as LaKeesha

Dreamgirls

as Joann

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

as Barbara

Guess Who

as Winnie

Me and You and Everyone We Know

as Pam

Collateral

as Waitress

Andre Royo’s Big Scene

2004

as The Sound Person

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

2003

as Cathy

6.6

Impostor

2001

as Screaming Nurse (as Jonell Kennedy)

6.1

Little Richard

2000

as Peggie Penniman

6.6

Another Woman's Husband

as Bets

Goodbye Lover

as Evelyn

Last Exit to Earth

as Hera

Television (35)

High Potential

2024

as Phyllis Martel

8.2

Fright Krewe

2023

as Marie Laveau (voice)

The Rookie: Feds

as Renee

The Ms. Pat Show

as Cheryl

9-1-1

as Dr. Thompson

FBI

as Ann Tasker

Conviction

as June Dwyer

Chicago Med

as Sheryl Russell

The Affair

as Kristina

You're the Worst

as Yvette

Chicago Fire

as Jasmine Lacey

The Cape

as Donna

Hawaii Five-0

as Leann Stockwell

NCIS: Los Angeles

as Navy Commander Susan Yelton

The Mentalist

as Coroner Pat

Torchwood

as Veronica

Grey's Anatomy

as Duda Kyat

Bones

as Dr. Lawrence

My Name Is Earl

as Reverend's Wife

NCIS

as Navy Commander Lisa Cleveland

7.6

Veronica's Closet

1997

as Tanya

5.4

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

as Monique

Malcolm & Eddie

as Maura McGee

Caroline in the City

as Wanda

NewsRadio

as Cheryl

Ned & Stacey

as Lucy

Hope and Gloria

as Sheryl

as Judy Munder

Touched by an Angel

as Judith Jackson

The X-Files

as Dr. Amina Ngebe

Living Single

as Rebecca

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

1993

as Lenore Raymond

7.1

Mad About You

1992

as Paul's Flight Attendant

6.8

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

as Karen

Seinfeld

as Secretary

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Steep

2007

Writer