Out of Darkness was a 1994 made-for-TV movie starring singer Diana Ross

Diana Ross

Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...

. It earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV Movie.

Ross plays Paulie Cooper, a former med student who loses 18 years of her life due to a bout with schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by a disintegration of thought processes and of emotional responsiveness. It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social...

 and after a release from a mental ward, she seeks to better herself in a world that had shunned her.

Cast

• Diana Ross
  Diana Ross
  Diana Ernestine Earle Ross is an American singer, record producer, and actress. Ross was lead singer of the Motown group The Supremes during the 1960s. After leaving the group in 1970, Ross began a solo career that included successful ventures into film and Broadway...
  
   as Paulie Cooper
• Rhonda Stubbins White as Zoe
• Beah Richards
  Beah Richards
  Beah Richards was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author....
  
   as Mrs. Cooper
• Carl Lumbly as Addison
• Chasiti Hampton as Ashley
• Juanita Jennings as Inez
• Maura Tierney
  Maura Tierney
  Maura Therese Tierney is an American film and television actress, who is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on NewsRadio and Abby Lockhart on the television medical drama ER.-Early life:...
  
   as Meg
• Lindsay Crouse
  Lindsay Crouse
  -Early life:Crouse was born in New York City, the daughter of Anna and Russel Crouse, a playwright. Her full name—Lindsay Ann Crouse—is an intentional tribute to the Broadway writing partnership of Lindsay and Crouse. Her father and his writing partner, Howard Lindsay, wrote much of...
  
   as Kim Donaldson
• Rusty Gray as Bartender (as Rusty Schmidt)
• Patricia Idlette
  Patricia Idlette
  Patricia Idlette is an actress known for her role as Kiffany, a waitress, in Showtime's Dead Like Me. She also played a small roles in Ginger Snaps 2 and Battlestar Galactica, as one of the counsellors working at Brigitte's rehab centre and a nurse taking a mammogram for Dana in the Showtime...
  
  as Policewoman