Roma Downey Movies

When a rogue CIA agent and a kung fu fighting chimp named Clemens stage a daring escape from a top-secret government testing facility, the stage is set for an adventure that's sure to please the entire family in this primate crowd-pleaser featuring Matthew Modine, Seth Adkins, and Roma Downey. Appalled at the conditions under which chimpanzees are transformed into kung-fu fighting soldiers in a high-tech government lab, sympathetic trainer Jack McCall (Modine) smuggles experimental test subject Clemens out of the lab -- but not before being noticed by the nefarious henchmen who guard the facility. As the government agents close in, Jack and Clemens seek refuge in the house of single mother Megan Dean (Roma Downey) and her young son, Michael (Adkins). When the escape plan goes sour and Clemens is taken back into custody, it's up to Jack and his new friend Michael to bust their hairy pal out of primate prison! ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Series star Roma Downey plays a dual role in this episode, which marks the return of angelic Monica's demonic twin Monique. Posing as Monica, Monique tricks angel-in-training Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli) into breaking up newlyweds Kristie (Sarah Thompson) and Doug (Ryan Hurts), and driving poor Kristie into the arms of a sinister-looking cowboy (Christina Stevens) who always wear bright red boots! Will Gloria figure out which twin is the phony before it is too late? (Incidentally, in a breathtaking burst of versatility, Roma Downey also coscripted tonight's episode!) ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Jimmy Adams (George Newbern) is dismayed when the benefactor of his charges at The Sons of Mistletoe boy's orphanage suddenly dies and leaves the facility to his daughter, Helen Radke (Roma Downey), who appears ready to pull funding from the orphanage. As the situation worsens, it looks like the only thing that will save The Sons of Mistletoe is a Christmas miracle. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

Heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey) continues to work hand in glove with her celestial supervisor Tess (Della Reese) and gentle Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye) to save the souls of earthly mortals, or at the very least to change their lives for the better, as Touched by an Angel begins its seventh season. New to the proceedings is novice angel Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli), who joins the cast in an episode originally telecast on May 6, 2001. Just as Tess has been providing wisdom, guidance and moral support to Monica during the past six seasons, so too does Monica become the mentor of the shy and somewhat awkward Gloria as she tries to do Heaven's work on Earth. Making return appearances this year are streetwise angel Rafael (Alexis Cruz), as well as Adam (Charles Rocket), the Angel of Death whom Andrew effectively replaced at the beginning of season two. Also, actor Ray Walston makes his final TV guest appearance in the season opener "The Face on the Barroom Floor," telecast three months before his death. Other prominent performers appearing guest roles this season include Robert Loggia, as a 102-year-old movie director in "Restoration;" Bonnie Franklin (who coincidentally played the mother of Valerie Bertinelli on TV's One Day at a Time) as a harried foreperson of a murder-trial jury in "Reasonable Doubt;" onetime juvenile actor Scott Baio as a hardnosed narcotics cop in "A Death in the Family;" and Mandy Patinkin as an enigmatic motorist in "Netherlands." Season seven concludes with the two-part "Shallow Water," in which Monica, having passed an important milestone in her celestial career, is awarded by god with a special gift: to see humans "from the inside out," enabling her to instantly realize how everything in those persons' lives -- good or bad -- has profoundly altered their present. ~ Rovi

Unless travelling salesman Gus Zimmerman (Michael Jeter) can come up with $10,000 in a hurry, his invalid wife Esther will be ejected from her nursing home. Heading to Las Vegas in hopes of winning big, Gus falls under the spell of beautiful casino manager Monique (Roma Downey)--who, unbeknownst to him, is the demonic doppelganger of Heavenly caseworker Monica (also Roma Donwey). Before he quite knows what has happened, Gus has signed his soul over to Monique, who tries to arrange for a quick turnover by subtly encouraging the hapless salesman to kill himself so that Esther can collect his life insurance! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This two-hour TV entertainment special takes a surface skim (95 minutes minus commercials and promos) over the history of CBS, quickly skipping past decades of CBS radio to concentrate on CBS television from the late '40s to the present. It features more than a dozen hosts (Adam Arkin, Ed Bradley, Carol Burnett, David Copperfield, Roma Downey, Fran Drescher, Don Johnson, Angela Lansbury, David Letterman, Cheech Marin, Mary Tyler Moore, Dan Rather, Della Reese, Ray Romano, Jane Seymour) introducing a parade of primetime clips covering a variety of shows, events, and people -- Ed Sullivan, The Carol Burnette Show, 60 Minutes (Mike Wallace interviewing Barbra Streisand), Gunsmoke, The Honeymooners, Edward R. Murrow (his oft-seen editorial on Joe McCarthy), I Love Lucy, The Twilight Zone, The Waltons, Dan Rather reporting from Vietnam, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Green Acres, Dallas, Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, M*A*S*H, The Andy Griffith Show, Murphy Brown, the JFK assassination, and more -- with reminiscences from Tom and Dick Smothers, David Letterman (on Ed Sullivan), Larry Hagman (on "Who shot J.R.?"), Alan Alda, Ron Howard, Walter Cronkite, and others. At 95 minutes, these nostalgic nods, truncated tributes, and familiar faces might leave many viewers yearning for an archeological dig through the little-seen rarities and antiquities buried in the Museum of Television & Radio collection while waiting for the major networks to cover broadcasting history in depth. Premiered May 20, 1998 on CBS. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

This made-for-TV biographical drama was adapted from William Gibson's sequel to his own play The Miracle Worker. Moira Kelly and Roma Downey are respectively starred as the teenaged Helen Keller and her teacher and closest friend Annie Sullivan. Despite her inability to see or hear, Helen has made such spectacular progress under Sullivan's tutelage that she is able to attend Radcliffe College. Accompanying Helen to the campus, Annie meets handsome journalism professor John Macy (Bill Campbell) and quickly falls in love. Having had her own crush on Macy, and fearing the loss of Annie's friendship, Helen reverts to the anger and jealousy that characterized her childhood years--but soon finds comfort in a romantic relationship of her own. Monday After the Miracle made its CBS network bow on November 15, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

This 1998 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Roma Downey and features musical guest Missy Elliot. ~ Skyler Miller, Rovi

Season three of Touched By an Angel offers another cluster of heartwarming and inspiring stories of forgiveness and redemption as celestial caseworker Monica (Roma Downey), her heavenly supervisor Tess (Della Reese), and on occasion the gentle Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye) travel the length and breadth of the country in order to inspire ordinary mortals to turn their lives around. In those instances when the input of the three series regulars isn't quite enough to finish the job, Special Agent Angel Sam (Paul Winfield) flutters down to tie up loose ends. The season gets under way with a special episode introducing laid-off factory worker Russell Greene (Gerald McRaney), his wife Claire (Wendy Phillips), his children Joshua (Austin O'Brien) and Dinah (Sarah Schaub), his nephew Daniel (Wendy Phillips), and his own mom Hattie (Celeste Holm). After being saved from a drastic act that would have ruined not only his life but those of his loved ones, Russell is asked by Monica and Tess to be their earthly representative, driving throughout the country in his dilapidated trailer to "redefine what it meant to be a good neighbor and recapture the American dream." Thus is the Greene family launched into its own spin-off series, Promised Land. The Greene family would make a return appearance in a pair of two-part crossovers between Promised Land and Touched By an Angel, titled "The Homecoming" and "Amazing Grace." In other episodes, Monica heads to Death Row to break a vicious cycle of violence, frets over the iniquities of life when an "insignificant" man is unable to find a kidney donor, and finds her angel status in jeopardy because of a "lie of omission." Elsewhere, a flashback episode taking place around the "War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 offers an object lesson for a present-day mortal; and an elderly couple is prevented from going through with a suicide pact; an estranged mother and daughter are reunited despite the mother's irrevocable memory loss; Monica briefly tutors a nervous apprentice angel named Celeste (Hudson Leick); and all three angels form a united front against Big Tobacco. As bonuses, the episode "At Risk," a paean to voluntarism, is introduced by General Colin Powell, while the season's final episode, "A Delicate Balance," features cameos by Olympic champs Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner. ~ Rovi

The second season of Touched By an Angel finds heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey) and her celestial supervisor Tess (Della Reese) continuing to tool about the earth in their classic Cadillac, seeking out mortal souls to help and rescue, and occasionally assisting in the transition from this world to the next. For this purpose, easygoing Angel of Death Andrew (John Dye), previously only a recurring character, graduates to full regular status during Season Two. Also on hand from time to time is another visitor from Above, Special Agent Angel Sam (Paul Winfield), who first shows up in the episode "In the Name of God" to finish an assignment abruptly abandoned for personal reasons by Tess -- and drives Satan out of a small town in the process. The season opener finds Monica trying to persuade a heart transplant surgeon to operate on the drunk drier who killed his children. In a subsequent installment, she has a run-in with "fallen angel" Kathleen (Jasmine Guy), who is doing the devil's work on earth. Later episodes find Monica and company reforming a caustic and cynical radio personality, providing moral support to an embittered woman who finds she is HIV positive, defusing a hostage situation while simultaneously making certain that a baby is delivered safely, and enabling a grieving rock & roll star overcome the death of his wife -- not to mention a nasty drug habit. And while it is usually the mortals who are weighed down with woe, Monica herself has reason to gripe when she is wrongly arrested for drug possession after going to the wrong house during an assignment. ~ Rovi