You’ve seen her in movies such as Set it Off, Beloved, John Q, The Manchurian Candidate and For Colored Girls and as well on television as Dr. Rebecca Swender on Grey’s Anatomy and the TNT special Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.
Now you can see her in the UPtv Easter special – Apple Mortgage Cake, The true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home. Also you will find her April 19th on the Lifetime special, A Day Late and Dollar Short, co-starring alongside Whoopi Goldberg. Easter Sunday, Ms. Elise joins the program to share these stories, her personal story which began in Minneapolis, MN and the story of her career yet to be told.