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Jenifer Lewis

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Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957) is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films Beaches (1988) and Sister Act (1992). Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What's Love Got to Do With It (1993), Poetic Justice (1993), The Preacher's Wife (1996), The Brothers (2001), The Cookout (2004), Think Like a Man (2012) and in the sequel Think Like a Man Too (2014), Baggage Claim (2013) and The Wedding Ringer (2015), as well as in The Temptations miniseries (1998). Lewis is known unofficially as "The Mother of Black Hollywood" (also the name of her memoir) given her frequent matriarchal film and television roles. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Jenifer Lewis is the 8,253rd most popular actor (down from 7,761st in 2024), the 12,674th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,490th in 2019) and the 3,839th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Jenifer Lewis ranks 8,253 out of 13,578. Before her are Gene Lockhart, Daniela Castro, Sharon Lawrence, Michael T. Weiss, Catherine Mouchet, and Roger L. Jackson. After her are Shun Oguri, Satsuki Yukino, Klemen Slakonja, Cathy Downs, Kathryn McGuire, and Tim Thomerson.

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Among people born in 1957, Jenifer Lewis ranks 571. Before her are Ammar Souayah, Janet Napolitano, Norbert Növényi, Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Claude Onesta, and Rui Veloso. After her are Zhivko Gospodinov, Tertius Zongo, Kalzeubet Pahimi Deubet, Alexander Beilinson, Mira Nair, and Witold Waszczykowski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jenifer Lewis ranks 12,678 out of 20,380. Before her are Michael T. Weiss (1962), Blake Shelton (1976), Hughie Thomasson (1952), Steven Lindsey (1960), Harold Stephen Black (1898), and Roger L. Jackson (1958). After her are Ralph Merkle (1952), Walter Bahr (1927), Anderson Cooper (1967), George Whitefield Chadwick (1854), David Thompson (1953), and Cathy Downs (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jenifer Lewis ranks 3,841. Before her are Jamie Lynn Spears (1991), Morris Chestnut (1969), Ola Ray (1960), Sharon Lawrence (1961), Michael T. Weiss (1962), and Roger L. Jackson (1958). After her are Cathy Downs (1926), Kathryn McGuire (1903), Tim Thomerson (1946), Julie Carmen (1954), Esther Rolle (1920), and Jeremy Allen White (1991).

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