Adilah Barnes

Adilah Barnes is an award-winning actor with over 50 years of acting experience. Barnes is best known to television audiences for her role as Anne Marie on ABC's "Roseanne" for five seasons -still running in syndication. Barnes has been fortunate in landing roles that come close to who she really is - a woman of enormous strength, steadfastness and grit on a mission to teach us about life, history and the rewards of perseverance. Her role opposite Hilary Swank, as the infamous Ida B. Wells in HBO's "Iron Jawed Angels" demonstrated this. As Ida B. Wells in "Iron Jawed Angels," Barnes marched for women's rights and ironically, in real life she is also a marcher and supporter for women of every ethnicity. She has guest-starred most recently in CBS' "NCIS." Other appearances include Showtime's "Shameless," NBC's "Harry's Law" and "Prime Suspect," ABC's "The Middle," CBS' well-received "Cold Case," and TNT's "Trust Me." Other television credits include "Gilmore Girls," "City of Angels," "F