1998- Mary J Blige began her acting career in 1998, when she had a cameo on the Jamie Foxx show.
2001- In 2001 she had a simiar rol in “Prison Song” appearing as a a small cameo roll.
2007- After “Prison Song” Blige took a short hiatus from acting, only to return to the Jennifer Love Hewitt- starinng primttie drama Ghost Whisperer.
2007 -Entourage was just about to peak when BLige made a cameo in 2007. In the episode she played herself.
2009 – After collecting TV show cameos, Blige made her first nearly non-music related film debut in Tyler Perry’s I Can Do All Bad By Myself. Blige played an inspiring singing bartender at the nightclub.
2013 – The TV movie Betty and Coretta was one of Blige’s first true starring roles. She played Malcolm X’s, widow alongside Angela Bassett, who played Coretta Scott King.
2015 – As one of the biggest shows of the last few years, Blig’s appearence on EMpire solidified herself as a mainstream in both acting and singing.
2016 – Blige continued her role as a go-to cameo for some of the biggest primetime shows. She appeared in “How to get away with murder” in the award winning 2016 season.