Jurnee Diana Smollett is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own and Full House. As an adult, she has starred in the films The Great Debaters, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, and Birds of Prey.
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Jurnee Diana Smollett is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own and Full House. She received critical acclaim and Critic’s Choice Award for playing Eve in the 1997 independent drama film Eve’s Bayou. As an adult, she has starred in the films The Great Debaters, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, and Birds of Prey. Her television roles include the NBC sports drama Friday Night Lights, and the HBO vampire drama True Blood. She later played Juanita Leonard, the wife of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, in the 2016 biographical sport film Hands of Stone co-starring with Robert Stone and Robert De Niro.
In 2015, she was cast as lead character in the WGN America period drama Underground. She portrayed Black Canary Letitia Lewis in the 2020 HBO series Lovecraft Country. She has been active in HIVAIDS causes since she was 11. She was inspired by the HIVAIDS survivor, Broadia Hyde, with whom she eventually worked for the Black AIDS Institute and Red Cross.
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