Her 2007 album Lost & Found earned two Grammy nominations. Her 2009 album Turn Me Loose was nominated for two more Grammy Awards and her 2011 album Pieces of Me debuted in the Top 10 of the US Billboard 200 chart and earned another three Grammy nominations. Ledisi played the role of Mahalia Jackson in the 2014 Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma. She also starred in the movies Leatherheads in 2008 and Leave It on the Floor in 2011.