Raised on Chicago's South Side and a Calumet High School graduate, Warfield began as a writer-performer on the Richard Pryor Show before winning the 1979 San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Film roles followed in D.C. Cab (1983) and Mask (1985), and she became best known as bailiff Roz Russell on NBC’s Night Court (1986-1992), a role she revisited in the 2023 revival where Roz is portr…
