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Joie Lee

Joie Lee

Highest Rated: 97% Farewell Amor (2020)

Lowest Rated: 36% A Kiss Before Dying (1991)

Birthday: Jun 22, 1962

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Actress and screenwriter who projects a prickly and independent intelligence on screen. The sister of Spike Lee, Joie (pronounced zhwa) Lee made her film acting debut in her brother's "She's Gotta Have It" (1986) and has appeared in all of his films to date (as his sister in "Do the Right Thing" 1989 and as a romantic lead in "Mo' Better Blues" 1990). She was also featured in the independent thriller "Bail Jumper" (1989), the remake of "A Kiss Before Dying" (1991) as well as Jonathan Demme's music video for the Nevile Brothers, "Sister Rosa." Lee made her stage debut as the lead in the Zora Neale Hurston-Langston Hughes collaboration, "Mule Bone" on Broadway in 1991.

Highest rated movies

97% 71% Farewell Amor 92% 89% Do the Right Thing 79% 90% Crooklyn 71% 75% Mo' Better Blues
64% 75% Coffee and Cigarettes
48% 20% Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
45% 73% Losing Isaiah
44% 25% Full Grown Men

Filmography

Movies

Credit
97% 71% Farewell Amor Nzingha (Character) $4.7K 2020
48% 20% Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Nirse Colquitt (Character) - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Window on Your Present Unknown (Character) - 2010
44% 25% Full Grown Men Annie (Character) $13.7K 2006
64% 75% Coffee and Cigarettes Good Twin (Character) $2.0M 2003
No Score Yet 56% Hook'd Up Poet Woman (Character) - 1999
45% 73% Losing Isaiah Marie (Character) $3.7M 1995
79% 90% Crooklyn Aunt Maxine (Character),
Screenwriter
$12.8M 1994
No Score Yet 33% Fathers and Sons Lois (Character) - 1992
36% 32% A Kiss Before Dying Cathy (Character) $14.7M 1991
71% 75% Mo' Better Blues Indigo Downes (Character) $15.9M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bail Jumper Athena (Character) - 1990
92% 89% Do the Right Thing Jade (Character) $26.0M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Making 'Do the Right Thing' Self - 1989

TV

Credit
78% 59% She's Gotta Have It Septima (Character) 2017
96% 92% Rectify Unknown (Guest Star) 2016