Jenifer Lewis
Birthday: 1957-01-25
Place of Birth: Kinloch, Missouri, USA
Biography: Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957) is an American film and television actress and singer. She is one of Hollywood's most familiar faces, with more than 300 appearances in film and television and was dubbed a "national treasure" by TV Guide.com. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in the films Beaches and Sister Act. She delivered legendary performances as Tina Turner's mother in What's Love Got to Do With It and in The Preacher's Wife as the mother of Whitney Houston's character. She starred opposite Matt Damon in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter. For director Tyler Perry, she created unforgettable characters in Madea's Family Reunion and Meet the Browns. In the movie Cast Away, she portrayed Tom Hanks' boss. In animated films, Jenifer's uniquely recognizable voice is adored by Disney fans worldwide in roles such as "Flo" in Cars and Cars 2, and as "Mama Odie" in The Princess and the Frog. For six seasons, Jenifer portrayed "Lana Hawkins" on Lifetime's hit series Strong Medicine. She starred on the hit show Black-ish (ABC), where her hilarious portrayal of "Ruby Johnson" earned her a nomination for the 2016 Critics Choice Award. She has also written two books: The Mother of Black Hollywood and Walking in My Joy: In These Streets.
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Cars
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the jou...
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Prop 8: The Musical
The conflict of the aftermath of Proposition 8 (banning gay marriage in California) is solved by Jes...
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The Princess and the Frog
A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a fro...
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Beaches
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong child...
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Sister Act
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob...
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The Brothers
This is the story of four African-American "yuppies" (a banker, a doctor, a lawyer, and a "playboy")...
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The Preacher's Wife
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due t...
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The Mighty
Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Ma...
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Mystery Men
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova...
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Dirty Laundry
After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundres...
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Panther
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as ...
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Jackie's Back!
A British documentarian profiles washed-up diva Jackie Washington as she prepares for her comeback c...
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Not Easily Broken
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple....
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Madea's Family Reunion
Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship tro...
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The Cookout
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows th...
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Get Bruce!
Affectionate tribute to Bruce Vilanch, who writes material for celebrities who make public appearanc...
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Think Like a Man
The balance of power in four couples’ relationships is upset when the women start using the advice i...
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Nora's Hair Salon
Welcome to Nora's Hair Salon. Leave your troubles outside and get set for neighborhood drama, juicy ...
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Meet the Browns
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet...
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Shark Tale
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great ...
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When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
The remake of 'When Harry Met Sally' that everyone has been waiting for is finally here....
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black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
An exclusive look at final table read and original audition tapes; interviews with cast, crew and gu...
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Think Like a Man Too
All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when t...
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presid...
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Partners
After stealing a briefcase, a drifter finds himself caught in the middle of an international crime c...
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Deconstructing Sarah
Thriller about an advertising executive Kelley who leads a double life, looking for men in dive bars...
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The Wedding Ringer
Doug Harris is a loveable but socially awkward groom-to-be with a problem: he has no best man. With...
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Baggage Claim
Although she has traveled all over the world, flight attendant Montana Moore has yet to find a man w...
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Spellbound
When a powerful spell turns her parents into giant monsters, a teenage princess must journey into th...
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Undercover Blues
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a specia...
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Zambezia
Set in a bustling bird city on the edge of the majestic Victoria Falls, "Zambezia" is the story of K...
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An Unexpected Life
A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depe...
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Shake, Rattle and Rock!
In 1950s America, teenage rebellion comes easy when something like rock 'n' roll is viewed as sinful...
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Earth to America
Tom Hanks is the host of this show with a comic approach to raise awareness concerning the environme...
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This Is Me…Now
An intimate, fantastical and narrative-driven reflection of Jennifer Lopez's journey of self-healing...
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Cars 2
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix r...
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The Greatest Love Story Never Told
Follow Jennifer Lopez as she attempts her most daring project yet: independently producing a new alb...
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Finding Kendrick Johnson
A filmmaker cracks a major case dealing with the racially charged murder of a teen....
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What's Love Got to Do with It
Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husba...
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Five
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives....
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Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
Inspired by the the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Miami-based journalist, Edna Buchanan, who inves...
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Juwanna Mann
A basketball star is booted out of the NBA when his on-court antics go too far, so he poses as a wom...
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Cars 3
Blindsided by a new generation of blazing-fast racers, the legendary Lightning McQueen is suddenly p...
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Blast from the Past
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Ada...
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Bette Midler: Art or Bust
The Divine Miss M is featured in a concert filmed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, at th...
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Hereafter
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by ...
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Little Richard
The story of Little Richard Penniman, from his poor Southern upbringing to dealing with the trials a...
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Hiccups
When Lightning McQueen gets the hiccups, everyone in Radiator Springs thinks they have the cure....
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The Radiator Springs 500½
A 'leisurely drive' planned in honor of Radiator Springs’ town founder, Stanley, turns precarious as...
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Jewel's Catch One
With four strikes against her (black, female, poor and a lesbian), our trailblazer, Jewel Thais-Will...
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Forbidden
A musical set in the North-American city of Nacirema Falls, in the country of Nacirema, which black ...
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Sunday in Paris
A pilot for an unsold NBC series. A single woman with three children realizes that her family has lo...
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Corrina, Corrina
When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope wit...
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The Addams Family
The Addams family's lives begin to unravel when they face-off against a treacherous, greedy crafty r...
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Cast Away
Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and hea...
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Dead Presidents
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when ...
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Secrets of the Magic City
The Magic City, by Director R. Malcolm Jones, is a motion picture based on hope and resilience playe...
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Who's Your Caddy?
Superstar rap mogul C-Note wants to join the Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club, but faces stiff opp...
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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of C...
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Renaissance Man
An advertising man is slowly sliding downhill. When he is fired from his job in Detroit, he signs up...
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All Boys Aren't Blue
Actors Bernard David Jones, Dyllon Burnside, Thomas Hobson, and Jenifer Lewis bring to life the word...
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Poetic Justice
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice writes poetry to deal with the...
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The Meteor Man
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he...
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Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
Maurice Hines -- actor, director, singer, and choreographer -- navigates the complications of show b...
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Ado
Ms. Hopkins is rehearsing Much Ado About Nothing with her middle school theatre class when it is int...
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GOAT
Will, a small goat with big dreams, gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarbal...
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A Different World
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired...
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Rituals
A woman confides in her best friend about her deep suspicions that her husband is cheating on her. T...
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Antwone Fisher
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to o...
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