Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1/25/1957
Place of Birth
Kinloch, Missouri, USA
Jenifer Lewis
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 opposit...
Known For
Cars 2
as Flo (voice)
Cars 3
as Flo (voice)
The Princess and the Frog
as Mama Odie (voice)
Cars
as Flo (voice)
Shark Tale
as Motown Turtle (voice)
Blast from the Past
as Dr. Aron
GOAT
as Florence Everson (voice)
Mystery Men
as Lucille
The Mighty
as Mrs. Addison
Poetic Justice
as Annie
Baggage Claim
as Catherine Moore
Zambezia
as Gogo (voice)
Spellbound
as Nazara (voice)
Corrina, Corrina
as Jevina
Juwanna Mann
as Aunt Ruby
Cast Away
as Becca Twig
Renaissance Man
as Mrs. Coleman
The Cookout
as Lady Em
Not Easily Broken
as Mary 'Mama' Clark
Panther
as Rita
Career Timeline
2024
2022
2021
And Just Like That…
as Lucille Highwater
The Ghost and Molly McGee
as Patty (voice)
Mickey Mouse Funhouse
as Wheezelene (voice)
All Boys Aren't Blue
Role unknown
Finding Kendrick Johnson
as Narrator (voice)
Monsters at Work
as Grandma Tuskmon (voice)
Rugrats
as Ms. Marjorie / Narrator (voice)
Rugrats
as Ms. Marjorie (voice)
The Upshaws
as Dr. Pearl Edmunds
Celebrity Wheel of Fortune
as Self - Contestant
2020
2019
2017
2016
2014
2012
2011
2009
2008
2006
2005
2004
2000
1999
1998
1996
1995
Dead Presidents
as Mrs. Curtis
Courthouse
as Judge Rosetta Reide
Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan
as Denice Cooper
Panther
as Rita
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Female Black Widow Spider (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Hazel (voice)
The Parent 'Hood
Role unknown