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Joie Lee

Actor

Joie Lee

Born June 22, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA22 films

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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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Do the Right Thing posterFirst watchDo the Right Thing19897.8as JadeSal 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 exhibits only Italian actors.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Coffee and Cigarettes poster6.9Coffee and Cigarettes2004Summer of Sam poster6.5Summer of Sam1999She's Gotta Have It poster6.6She's Gotta Have It1986Mo' Better Blues poster6.5Mo' Better Blues1990Crooklyn poster6.8Crooklyn1994Losing Isaiah poster6.5Losing Isaiah1995Coffee and Cigarettes II poster6.8Coffee and Cigarettes II1989Get on the Bus poster6.4Get on the Bus1996

Filmography

22 films as actor
  1. 2020Farewell AmorNzingha
  2. 2015Da Sweet Blood of JesusNurse Colquitt
  3. 2007Starting Out in the EveningSecond Author
  4. 2006Full Grown MenAnnie
  5. 2004She Hate MeGloria Reid
  6. 2004Coffee and CigarettesGood Twin (segment "Twins")
  7. 2003Ash TuesdayBetsy
  8. 1999Summer of SamBed Stuy Woman Interviewed
  9. 1999Hook'd UpPoet Woman
  10. 1996Get on the BusJindai
  11. 1996Girl 6Switchboard Operator
  12. 1996Nowhere FastJoie
  13. 1995Losing IsaiahMarie
  14. 1994CrooklynAunt Maxine
  15. 1992Fathers & SonsLois
  16. 1991A Kiss Before DyingCathy
  17. 1990Mo' Better BluesIndigo
  18. 1989Do the Right ThingJade
  19. 1989Coffee and Cigarettes IIGood Twin
  20. 1988Window on Your PresentCloakey's Girlfriend
  21. 1988School DazeLizzie Life
  22. 1986She's Gotta Have ItClorinda Bradford