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Jenifer Lewis

Acting

Born January 25, 1957 · Kinloch, Missouri, USA

Biography

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress. 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).

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Filmography50+ titles

Amphibia

2019as Mama Hasselback (voice)

Young Justice

2010as Olympia Savage (voice)

Friends

1994as Paula

The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish

2024as Mother Nature (voice)

The Boondocks

2005as Geraldine (voice)

GOAT

2026as Flo Everson (voice)

Haunted Hotel

2025as Additional Voices (voice)

The Ghost and Molly McGee

2021as Patty (voice)

The Temptations

1998as Mama Rose

Living Single

1993

Grown-ish

2018as Ruby Johnson

Boston Legal

2004as Judge Isabel Fisher

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

1990as Aunt Helen

Roc

1991as Charlaine

Cast Away

2000as Becca Twig

Finding Kendrick Johnson

2021as Narrator (voice)

The Upshaws

2021as Dr. Pearl Edmunds

Star Trek: Lower Decks

2020as Bartender (voice)

Big Hero 6: The Series

2017as Professor Granville (voice)

A Different World

2026as President Davenport

Cars on the Road

2022as Flo (voice)

Strong Medicine

2000as Lana Hawkins

So Help Me Todd

2022as Jacqueline Burton

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

2012as Self - Guest Judge

Girlfriends

2000as Veretta Childs

The Parent 'Hood

1995

New York Undercover

1994

Monsters at Work

2021as Grandma Tuskmon (voice)

And Just Like That...

2021as Lucille Highwater

The Princess and the Frog

2009as Mama Odie (voice)

That's So Raven

2003as Vivian

The Mighty

1998as Mrs. Addison

Touched by an Angel

1994as Queenie

A Different World

1987as Susan Clayton

Celebrity Wheel of Fortune

2021as Self - Contestant

black-ish

2014as Ruby Johnson

Five

2011as Maggie

Cars

2006as Flo (voice)

Moesha

1996as Mrs. Biggs

What's Love Got to Do with It

1993as Zelma Bullock

Not Dead Yet

2023as Donna

The $100,000 Pyramid

2016as Self

American Dad!

2005as Lessie (voice)

Dream On

1990as Carolyn

Rugrats

2021as Ms. Marjorie / Narrator (voice)

Cars 3

2017as Flo (voice)

Antwone Fisher

2002as Aunt Mary Williams (uncredited)

The PJs

1999as Bebe Ho (voice)

Jackie's Back!

1999as Jackie Washington

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

1993as Mystique