Joie Lee

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

29

Gender

Female

Birthday

1962-06-22 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Joie Lee

Biography

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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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Known For

Do the Right Thing
7.7%

Do the Right Thing

Jun 14, 1989

Coffee and Cigarettes
6.9%

Coffee and Cigarettes

Mar 12, 2004

Summer of Sam
6.5%

Summer of Sam

Jun 28, 1999

The Cosby Show
7.0%

The Cosby Show

Sep 20, 1984

She's Gotta Have It
6.6%

She's Gotta Have It

Aug 8, 1986

Rectify
7.5%

Rectify

Apr 22, 2013

Mo' Better Blues
6.5%

Mo' Better Blues

Aug 3, 1990

Broad City
7.2%

Broad City

Jan 22, 2014

Crooklyn
6.8%

Crooklyn

May 13, 1994

A Kiss Before Dying
5.6%

A Kiss Before Dying

Apr 26, 1991

She Hate Me
5.1%

She Hate Me

Jul 30, 2004

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Acting

2021
Harlem as Deborah
2020
Farewell Amor as Nzingha
2017
She's Gotta Have It as Septima Darling
2015
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus as Nurse Colquitt
2014
Broad City as Toy Harris
2013
Rectify as Bonnie
2010
Window on Your Present as Cloakey's Girlfriend
2007
Starting Out in the Evening as Second Author
2006
Full Grown Men as Annie
2004
She Hate Me as Gloria Reid
2004
Coffee and Cigarettes as Good Twin (segment "Twins")
2003
Ash Tuesday as Betsy
1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Prison Nurse
1999
Summer of Sam as Bed Stuy Woman Interviewed
1999
Hook'd Up as Poet Woman
1996
Get on the Bus as Jindai
1996
Girl 6 as Switchboard Operator
1996
Nowhere Fast as Joie
1995
Losing Isaiah as Marie
1994
Crooklyn as Aunt Maxine
1992
Fathers & Sons as Lois
1991
A Kiss Before Dying as Cathy
1990
Mo' Better Blues as Indigo
1989
Making 'Do the Right Thing' as Self / Jade
1989
Do the Right Thing as Jade
1989
Coffee and Cigarettes II as Good Twin
1988
School Daze as Lizzie Life
1986
She's Gotta Have It as Clorinda Bradford
1984
The Cosby Show

Directing

2023
Vitapoise as Director
2022
Untitled as Director

Production

2005
All the Invisible Children as Executive Producer
1996
Nowhere Fast as Producer
1994
Crooklyn as Associate Producer

Writing

2005
Jesus Children of America as Writer
2005
All the Invisible Children as Writer
1994
Crooklyn as Screenplay
1994
Crooklyn as Story
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