Essence Atkins
28 titles
Filmography
28 results

My Other Mother
(2014)Salty and stubborn personalities clash when a news anchor, adopted at birth, connects with her birth mother while attending the funeral of her father.

Girlfriends Getaway 2
(2015)A bride and her three opinionated friends travel to Puerto Rico for her wedding, but with very different ideas of what the nuptials should look like.

Nikita Blues
(2001)A teenage girl seeks love in all the wrong places. In particular, with her English teacher, who is engaged to the school’s assistant principal.

Act Like You Love Me
(2013)A young, successful dentist with a great life and no time for love panics when her sister gets engaged to Mr. Right and plans a rich engagement party.

Coins for Christmas
(2018)Two weeks before Christmas, a cash-strapped single mom takes a job working for an obnoxious ex-football player secretly on the brink of bankruptcy.

One Night Stay
(2024)BET+ ORIGINAL. An unhappily married man gets more than he bargained for when his one-night stand quietly disappears into the shadows of his vast mansion to secretly spy on him and his wife.

Open
(2020)Cameron and Wren have been married for ten years, however, the last three years of their matrimony have been open.

Coins for Love
(2020)In the sequel to Coins for Christmas, things start to heat up when Madison and Alec reunite. But their exes attempt to derail this budding romance.

Coins Forever
(2021)Madison and Alec are both killing it in their careers when they meet, but reality strikes when distractions threaten to derail their relationship.

Half & Half
Half-sisters Mona and Dee Dee had only one thing in common – their father. Though they grew up separately, when these two virtual strangers become neighbors in the same apartment building, they realize that they share more similarities than they thought.

From This Day Forward
(2012)As a married couple deals with past baggage, a newly engaged couple deals with what the future might hold in this story of trust and expectations.

A Haunted House
(2013)Malcolm and Kisha move into their dream home, but soon learn a demon also resides there. When Kisha becomes possessed, Malcolm - determined to keep his sex life on track - turns to a priest, a psychic, and a team of ghost-busters for help.

The Bachelor Party
(2011)What begins as an evening of innocent bachelor-party fun quickly turns bitter when tempers flare, vendettas are revealed and painful memories surface.
Toni Braxton’s Breathe Again
(2026)
Deliver Us from Eva
(2003)Three young men pay a player named Ray to romance Eva, their girlfriends' beautiful but bossy older sister. But the guys get more than they bargained for when Ray begins to fall for Eva.

Poppa's House
Damon Wayans stars as a legendary talk radio host and happily divorced "Poppa" who has his POV challenged at work when a female co-host (Essence Atkins) is hired.

Love for Sale
(2008)A young man with money problems attempts to juggle chasing the girl of his dreams with being a ‘special delivery man’ for a seductive older woman.

A Haunted House 2
(2014)Malcolm is starting fresh with his new girlfriend (Jaime Pressly) and her two children. But after moving into their dream home, he's once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events.

He Wasn't Man Enough
(2025)Toni Braxton plays bestselling author Mel Montgomery, whose world unravels when she discovers her boyfriend Richard has been deceiving her.

Girlfriends' Getaway
(2014)Four best friends watch as their Trinidad birthday celebration turns into a chaotic adventure, resulting in a kidnapping and possible jail time.