Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress, comedian, singer and activist. Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What’s Love Got to Do With It, Poetic Justice, The Preacher’s Wife, The Brothers, The Cookout, Think Like a Man and The Wedding Ringer. She also provided the voice for Mama Odie in Disney’s animated feature The Princess and the Frog and Flo in Pixar’s Cars series. In 2014, Lewis began starring as Ruby Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish.
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Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress, comedian, singer and activist. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films Beaches and Sister Act. Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What’s Love Got to Do With It, Poetic Justice, The Preacher’s Wife, The Brothers, The Cookout, Think Like a Man and The Wedding Ringer. She also provided the voice for Mama Odie in Disney’s animated feature The Princess and the Frog and Flo in Pixar’s Cars series. In 2014, Lewis began starring as Ruby Johnson in the ABC comedy series Black-ish, for which she received two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations. She is known unofficially as \”The Mother of Black Hollywood\” given her frequent matriarchal film and television roles.
Lewis has stated she never auditioned to play Tina Turner, but would have been thrilled to play the iconic Tina Turner. She is only one year older than Angela Bassett. Lewis was born in Kinloch, Missouri, to a nurse’s aide mother, Dorothy, and a factory worker father. She sang in her church choir at the age of five. She attended college at Webster University in Webster Groves, Missouri. After college, she moved to New York to focus on her career in performing. Lewis starred as Lana Hawkins in the Lifetime medical drama Strong Medicine from 2000 to 2006. She has also had roles in The Mighty, The Temptations TV miniseries, Mystery Men and Back to the Past. In 2000, Lewis had a leading role in the film Jackie’s Back. She received another NAACP Image Award for her role in The Preachers Wife.
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