JENIFER LEWIS
ACTING
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.
- Cars2006
- Sister Act1992
- The Princess and the Frog2009
- The Brothers2001
- The Preacher's Wife1996
- The Mighty1998
- Mystery Men1999
- Jackie's Back!1999
- Panther1995
- Not Easily Broken2009
- Madea's Family Reunion2006
- Think Like a Man2012
- The Cookout2004
- Nora's Hair Salon2004
- Think Like a Man Too2014
- Zambezia2012
- The Wedding Ringer2015
- An Unexpected Life1998
- Cars 22011
- What's Love Got to Do with It1993
- Five2011
- Frozen Assets1992
- Juwanna Mann2002
- Cars 32017
- Blast from the Past1999
- Hereafter2010
- Little Richard2000
- Hiccups2013
- The Radiator Springs 500½2014
- Girl 61996
- Corrina, Corrina1994
- The Addams Family2019
- Cast Away2000
- Dead Presidents1995
- Secrets of the Magic City2015
- Who's Your Caddy?2007
- Redrum2007
- Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square2020
- Renaissance Man1994
- Poetic Justice1993
- The Meteor Man1993
- Meet the Browns2008
- Shark Tale2004
- Baggage Claim2013
- Finding Kendrick Johnson2021
- Beaches1988
- Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit1993
- Undercover Blues1993
- Shake, Rattle and Rock!1994
- This Is Me…Now2024
- American Dad!2005
- Friends1994
- Strong Medicine2000
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air1990
- Boston Legal2004
- The PJs1999
- black-ish2014
- The Temptations1998
- That's So Raven2003
- Big Hero 6 The Series2017
- Amphibia2019
- Star Trek: Lower Decks2020
- grown-ish2018
- Young Justice2010
- I Love That for You2022
- A Different World1987
- A Different World1987
- Cars on the Road2022
- The Boondocks2005
- The Boondocks2005
- The Ghost and Molly McGee2021
- History of the World: Part II2023
- Rugrats2021
- Rugrats2021
- Rebel Highway1994
- Night Court2023
- Monsters at Work2021
- The Upshaws2021
- So Help Me Todd2022
- Not Dead Yet2023