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Joie Lee
Born: 22nd Jun 1962 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Dept: Acting
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Joie Susannah Lee (born June 22, 1962) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director and actress. She has appeared in many of the films directed by her brother, Spike Lee, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also wrote and produced the film Crooklyn.
Lee was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Jacqueline (née Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician, bassist, actor and composer.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 30
Film: 24 (80%)
Television: 6 (20%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family
Filmography
Dec 2021 (first aired)
Four stylish and ambitious best girlfriends in Harlem, New York City: a rising star professor struggling to make space for her love life; a savvy tech ... view
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Deborah (2 ep.)
2020
Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers shar ... view
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Nzingha
Nov 2017 (first aired)
Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee's film, in 10 episodes. ... view
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Septima Darling (1 ep.)
2015
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformat ... view
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Nurse Colquitt
2014
Spike Lee and others reflect on this impactful film, more than two decades later. ... view
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self
Jan 2014 (first aired)
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch ... view
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Toy Harris (1 ep.)
Apr 2013 (first aired)
After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new ... view
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Bonnie (1 ep.)
2007
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the poi ... view
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Second Author
2006
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than ... view
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Annie
2004
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit. ... view
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Gloria Reid
2004
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while ... view
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Good Twin (segment "Twins")
2003
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably lin ... view
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Betsy
Sep 1999 (first aired)
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate ... view
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Prison Nurse (1 ep.)
1999
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Br ... view
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Bed Stuy Woman Interviewed
1999
Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelan ... view
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Poet Woman
1996
Fifteen Black men gather in South Central LA to take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in October 1995. Among ... view
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Jindai
1996
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator. ... view
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Switchboard Operator
1996
The lives of 19 rather disagreeable people momentarily converge in a Brooklyn heat wave one Friday afternoon in director Cinque Lee's (Spike Lee's bro ... view
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Joie
1995
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he ... view
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Marie
1994
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in ... view
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Aunt Maxine
1992
A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy ... view
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Lois
1991
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father ... view
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Cathy
1990
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he ... view
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Indigo
1989
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing. ... view
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Self / Jade
1989
Sal is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exh ... view
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Jade
1989
A brother and sister, sitting in a coffee bar, bicker mildly about whose idea it was to come to Memphis and which kind of cigarette is fresher. Danny, ... view
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Good Twin
1988
Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color ... view
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Cloakey's Girlfriend
1988
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend. ... view
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Lizzie Life
1986
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three ... view
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Clorinda Bradford
Sep 1984 (first aired)
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until Apri ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)