Elise Neal
Biography
Elise Neal is an American actress who came to film and television through dance and musical theater. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, she studied in Philadelphia at the University of the Arts and traveled with touring musical companies before she appeared in hip hop and R&B music videos during the early 1990s. She made her screen debut in Spike Lee's Malcolm X, then broke through in 1997 with Rosewood (1997), Money Talks (1997) and Scream 2 (1997). From 1998 to 2002 she played Yvonne Hughley, the wife of D.L. Hughley, on the sitcom The Hughleys, and was nominated twice for an NAACP Image Award as Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her other films include Mission to Mars (2000), Paid in Full (2002), Hustle & Flow (2005), Love Ranch (2010) and Logan (2017), and she earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nod for Hustle & Flow (2005).
60years old
Turns 61 on March 14in 152 days
- Born Memphis
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Elise Demetria Neal
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 26 years1997 to 2023
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Early training
Neal won a full-ride scholarship to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Two years later she moved to New York City, where she got a role in musical theater and toured the world with various companies.
A change of course
Neal's early work included dancing in the background of a music video. The video was for Chubb Rock's song "Just the Two of Us."
Elise Neal movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Tyler MacIntyre directed two of these films. Five actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Tyler MacIntyreDirector, 2 films, 2017 to 2020
All films by Tyler MacIntyre
Box office
What Elise Neal's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$1.0 billion
9 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 9 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 3 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 3Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$619M61.5% of the total
- 2$172M17.1% of the total
- 3$111M11.0% of the total
- 4$48M4.8% of the total
- 5$24M2.3% of the total
- 6$14M1.4% of the total
- 7$13M1.3% of the total
- 8$3.1M0.3% of the total
$2.8 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
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Official profiles and reference pages.