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Joie Lee
Born
Joie Susannah Lee

Occupation
  • Actress
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
Years active 1986–present
Parent(s)
Relatives Spike Lee (brother)
Cinqué Lee (brother)
David Lee (brother)
Malcolm D. Lee (cousin)

Joie Susannah Lee (/ʒwɑː/) is an American screenwriter, film producer and actress.

Early years

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.

Career

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 co-wrote and produced the film Crooklyn (1994). Another movie she appears in is A Kiss Before Dying (1991).

Acting roles

Year Film Role Notes
1986 She's Gotta Have It Clorinda Bradford
1988 School Daze Lizzie Life
1989 Do the Right Thing Jade
1990 Mo' Better Blues Indigo Downes
Bail Jumper Athena
1991 A Kiss Before Dying Cathy Credited as Joy Lee
1992 Fathers & Sons Lois
1994 Crooklyn Aunt Maxine Credited, in opening actor credits, as Joie Susannah Lee.
Not credited in closing credits cast scroll.
Also Associate Producer/Writer
1995 Nowhere Fast Joie
Losing Isaiah Marie
1996 Girl 6 Switchboard Operator
Get on the Bus Jindal
1999 Personals Poet Woman
Summer of Sam Bed Stuy Woman Interviewed
2003 Coffee and Cigarettes Good Twin Segment: Twins
2004 She Hate Me Gloria Reid
2006 Full Grown Men Annie
2007 Starting Out in the Evening Second Author
2010 Window on Your Present Cloakey's Girlfriend
2014 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Nurse Colquitt
2016 Rectify Bonnie TV series: 1 Episode
2017-19 She's Gotta Have It Septima Darling TV series: 11 Episodes
Also Writer
2019 Broad City Toy Harris TV series: 1 Episode
2020 Farewell Amor Nzingha
2023 Harlem Deborah TV series: 2 Episodes (season 2)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Joie Lee para niños

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