Adina Porter is an American actress, currently seen as Lettie Mae Thornton on HBO's True Blood

True Blood

True Blood is an American television series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, small town in the state of Louisiana...

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She played Letecia Barris on the show Prison Break

Prison Break

Prison Break is an American television serial drama created by Paul Scheuring, that was broadcast on the Fox Broadcasting Company for four seasons, from 2005 until 2009. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an...

and also appeared as Ricky in the film version of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues

Lackawanna Blues

Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s.-Play:The...

for HBO. Her Broadway debut came in 2001 with the Roundabout Theater's revival of The Women, directed by Scott Elliott, broadcast as part of PBS's Stage on Screen series. In 2006, she guess starred in the series "Without A Trace" in a episode called "Watch Over Me_ where she plays a social worker. In 2007, she guest starred in the House, M.D. episode Family

Family

In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children...

. She currently stars in HBO's hit TV series "True Blood" where she plays "Lattie Mae Thornton", mother to Tara Thorton played by Rutina Wesley.

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