Beverly Todd is an American actress who portrays Beatrice Carter on FOX's 9-1-1.
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Todd played main role in the Broadway comedy play Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights directed by Sidney Poitier. She later appeared opposite Poitier, who was her mentor early in her career, in films such as The Lost Man (1969), They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970), Brother John (1971). and A Piece of the Action (1977). On television, she was regular cast member on the daytime soap opera, Love of Life, from 1968 to 1970, and in 1977 the educational show The Write Channel on PBS. Todd was nominated an NAACP Image Award for her performance in the critically acclaimed PBS production of Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976). She received her second NAACP Image Award nomination for her role in the ABC miniseries, Roots.
On television, Beverly found recurring roles on several TV series: Having Babies (1978); The Redd Foxx Show (1986); Six Feet Under (2001); and the daytime soap Days of Our Lives (1965). More recently, she appeared in episodes of Grey's Anatomy, 9-1-1 and How to Get Away with Murder, along with the assorted film comedies and dramas Crash (2004), The Bucket List (2007), I Will Follow (2010), Drive Me to Vegas and Mars (2018) and Turnover (2019).