Trivia

Is just 7 years older than Rutina Wesley who played her daughter on True Blood (2008).

As a college project, Adina Porter adapted Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye for the stage. After contacting the author for permission to perform the work in New York, Morrison invited Porter to her home. Porter then performed her adaption for the esteemed author and her son, in Morrison's living room. With Toni Morrison's blessing, Porter then did a limited run of the adapted play (off Broadway.).

1996 Obie Award for "Venus".

(May 27, 2013) Her second husband, Larry Earl Madison Jr. (b. February 14, 1958), died from heart attack at the age 55.

Has two adopted children with her now late second husband Larry Earl Madison Jr. - a son Jack Porter Madison and a daughter Jourdan Madison.

Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie category for her role as Beverly Hope in American Horror Story (2011), but lost to Merritt Wever from Godless (2017).