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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 25, 1957
Place of Birth
Kinloch, Missouri, USA
Jenifer Lewis
1.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
9.0
Ms. Hopkins
ADO
2025
6.7
Nazara (voice)
Spellbound
2024
6.2
Self
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
2024
5.2
Gemini
This Is Me…Now
2024
5.6
Grandma
History of the World: Part II
2023
7.0
Donna
Not Dead Yet
2023
6.7
Erika
Night Court
2023
7.4
Jacqueline Burton
So Help Me Todd
2022
4.2
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
7.4
Flo (voice)
Cars on the Road
2022
Credits
ADO
as Ms. Hopkins
2025
9.0
Spellbound
as Nazara (voice)
2024
6.7
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
as Self
2024
6.2
This Is Me…Now
as Gemini
2024
5.2
History of the World: Part II
as Grandma
2023
5.6
Not Dead Yet
as Donna
2023
7.0
Night Court
as Erika
2023
6.7
So Help Me Todd
as Jacqueline Burton
2022
7.4
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
4.2
Cars on the Road
as Flo (voice)
2022
7.4
I Love That for You
as Patricia Cochran
2022
6.5
black-ish: A Celebration – An ABC News Special
as Self
2022
10.0
The Ghost and Molly McGee
as Patty (voice)
2021
8.2
Mickey Mouse Funhouse
as Wheezelene (voice)
2021
7.7
All Boys Aren't Blue
2021
0.0
Finding Kendrick Johnson
as Narrator (voice)
2021
7.8
Monsters at Work
as Grandma Tuskmon (voice)
2021
7.2
Rugrats
as Ms. Marjorie / Narrator (voice)
2021
6.9
Rugrats
as Ms. Marjorie (voice)
2021
6.9
The Upshaws
as Dr. Pearl Edmunds
2021
7.8
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2021
7.4
Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
as Margeline
2020
5.8
Star Trek: Lower Decks
as Bartender (voice)
2020
7.6
Stars in the House
as Self - Special Guest
2020
0.0
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back
as Self (archive footage)
2019
5.0
The Addams Family
as Great Auntie Sloom (Voice)
2019
6.6
Amphibia
as Mama Hasselback (voice)
2019
8.6
Forbidden
2018
8.2
grown-ish
as Ruby Johnson
2018
8.0
Big Hero 6 The Series
as Professor Granville (voice)
2017
7.6
Cars 3
as Flo (voice)
2017
6.9
Jewel's Catch One
as Self
2017
7.0
The $100,000 Pyramid
as Self
2016
7.4
Match Game
as Self - Panelist
2016
5.9
To Tell the Truth
as Self - Panelist
2016
6.2
Secrets of the Magic City
as Aunt Valerie
2015
5.5
The Wedding Ringer
as Doris Jenkins
2015
6.5
black-ish
as Ruby Johnson
2014
7.2
Think Like a Man Too
as Loretta
2014
6.4
The Radiator Springs 500½
as Flo (voice)
2014
6.3
Baggage Claim
as Catherine Moore
2013
5.3
Hiccups
as Flo (voice)
2013
6.2
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
as Self - Guest Judge
2012
7.3
Jenifer Lewis and Shangela
as Jenifer Lewis
2012
0.0
Zambezia
as Gogo (voice)
2012
6.2
Think Like a Man
as Loretta Hanover
2012
6.8
Five
as Maggie
2011
7.1
The Playboy Club
as Pearl
2011
5.5
Cars 2
as Flo (voice)
2011
6.2
When Harry Met Sally 2 with Billy Crystal & Helen Mirren
as Retirement Home Waitress (uncredited)
2011
6.9
Young Justice
as Olympia Savage (voice)
2010
8.4
Hereafter
as Candace
2010
6.1
The Princess and the Frog
as Mama Odie (voice)
2009
7.2
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Not Easily Broken
as Mary 'Mama' Clark
2009
6.2
Prop 8: The Musical
as Riffing Prop 8'er
2008
7.2
Meet the Browns
as Vera
2008
6.6
Redrum
as Therapist
2007
1.4
Who's Your Caddy?
as C-Note's Mom
2007
3.4
Day Break
2006
7.4
Cars Wal-Mart Exclusive Geared UP
2006
0.0
Shark
2006
6.8
Dirty Laundry
as Aunt Lettuce
2006
6.2
Cars
as Flo (voice)
2006
7.0
Madea's Family Reunion
as Milay Jenay Lori
2006
6.3
Earth to America
as Self
2005
8.0
The Boondocks
as Boss Willona (voice)
2005
8.1
The Boondocks
as Geraldine (voice)
2005
8.1
American Dad!
as Lessie (voice)
2005
7.0
Boston Legal
as Judge Isabel Fisher
2004
7.9
Shark Tale
as Motown Turtle (voice)
2004
6.0
The Cookout
as Lady Em
2004
4.6
Nora's Hair Salon
as Nora
2004
7.8
That's So Raven
as Vivian Baxter
2003
7.2
Juwanna Mann
as Aunt Ruby
2002
5.1
The Brothers
as Louise Smith
2001
6.6
Dancing in September
as Judge Warner
2001
6.5
Cast Away
as Becca Twig
2000
7.7
Bette
2000
7.9
Girlfriends
2000
7.2
Strong Medicine
as Lana Hawkins
2000
7.1
Partners
as Detective Lancy
2000
4.8
Little Richard
as Muh Penniman
2000
6.4
Time of Your Life
1999
5.7
Mystery Men
as Lucille
1999
5.8
🎬
Grown Ups
1999
5.2
Jackie's Back!
as Jackie Washington
1999
6.9
Blast from the Past
as Dr. Aron
1999
6.8
The PJs
as Bebe Ho (voice)
1999
6.8
Get Bruce!
as Self
1999
6.2
The Temptations
as Mama Rose
1998
8.0
An Unexpected Life
as Camille
1998
4.5
The Mighty
as Mrs. Addison
1998
7.2
The Chris Rock Show
as Self
1997
4.4
The Preacher's Wife
as Margueritte Coleman
1996
5.8
Promised Land
as Queenie
1996
6.6
The Jamie Foxx Show
1996
6.7
The Daily Show
1996
6.4
Girl 6
as Boss #1 - Lil
1996
5.0
Moesha
1996
6.9
Dead Presidents
as Mrs. Curtis
1995
6.7
🎬
Courthouse
as Judge Rosetta Reide
1995
0.0
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
as Denice Cooper
1995
5.0
Panther
as Rita
1995
6.2
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Female Black Widow Spider (voice)
1995
6.0
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Hazel (voice)
1995
6.0
The Parent 'Hood
1995
7.3
Deconstructing Sarah
as Betty
1994
3.0
Friends
as Paula
1994
8.4
Touched by an Angel
as Queenie
1994
7.2
New York Undercover
1994
7.1
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
as Amanda
1994
5.8
Corrina, Corrina
as Jevina
1994
6.7
Rebel Highway
as Amanda
1994
10.0
Renaissance Man
as Mrs. Coleman
1994
6.1
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
as Vegas Backup Singer #1
1993
6.4
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
7.0
Undercover Blues
as Cab Driver
1993
6.0
Living Single
1993
8.4
The Meteor Man
as Mrs. Williams
1993
5.8
Poetic Justice
as Annie
1993
6.9
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Zelma Bullock
1993
7.1
Frozen Assets
as Jomisha
1992
3.5
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
as Georgia Rodman
1992
6.5
Sister Act
as Michelle
1992
6.8
Roc
as Charlaine
1991
7.8
Sunday in Paris
as Taylor Chase
1991
0.0
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
as Aunt Helen
1990
7.9
Dream On
as Carolyn
1990
6.9
In Living Color
1990
7.6
Beaches
as Diva
1988
6.7
A Different World
as Susan Clayton
1987
7.1
A Different World
as Dean Dorothy Dandridge Davenport
1987
7.1
Bette Midler: Art or Bust
as Self - Harlette
1984
6.0
🎬
Bette Midler: No Frills
as Herself
1983
0.0