Joie Lee

Joie Lee

Born: June 22, 1962
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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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Farewell Amor
Title: Farewell Amor
Character: Nzingha
Released: January 25, 2020
Type: Movie
Reunited after a 17-year separation, Walter, an Angolan immigrant, is joined in the U.S. by his wife and teenage daughter. Now absolute strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help overcome the emotional distance between them.
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Title: She's Gotta Have It
Character: Septima Darling
Released: November 23, 2017
Type: TV
Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee's film, in 10 episodes.
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Title: Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Character: Nurse Colquitt
Released: June 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
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Title: Broad City
Character: Toy Harris
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: TV
Broad City follows two women throughout their daily lives in New York City, making the smallest and mundane events hysterical and disturbing to watch all at the same time.
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Title: Rectify
Character: Bonnie
Released: April 22, 2013
Type: TV
After 19 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence. Now he has to return to a world he no longer knows and his reentry into the outside world may be as unforgiving as prison. Daniel is haunted by the past, dogged by the present, and uncertain of the future. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his homecoming reignites the fears of a small town and threatens to shatter his family’s fragile peace. Daniel’s alleged crime divided a community. Will his freedom tear it in half?
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Window on Your Present
Title: Window on Your Present
Character: Cloakey's Girlfriend
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Window on Your Present is Cinqué Lee's first feature film, which he wrote and directed in the late 1980s. The film takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often end up taking their own lives. However, two unlikely lovers discovery that there is something else that is special that exists outside of their horrid world.
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Starting Out in the Evening
Title: Starting Out in the Evening
Character: Second Author
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Leonard Schiller once counted among New York's literary lions, but illness and ten years of writer's block have lowered his profile, almost to the point of obscurity. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious literature major, asks to interview him for her thesis on his work, her interest forces him to address the issues that he has avoided all these years, and stirs in him feelings he has long forgotten, much to his daughter's consternation.
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Full Grown Men
Title: Full Grown Men
Character: Annie
Released: April 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
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She Hate Me
Title: She Hate Me
Character: Gloria Reid
Released: July 30, 2004
Type: Movie
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Title: Coffee and Cigarettes
Character: Good Twin (segment "Twins")
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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Ash Tuesday
Title: Ash Tuesday
Character: Betsy
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
After September 11th, six Lower Manhattan residents must deal with pain on their own. Yet in doing so, they find that their lives are inexplicably linked. "Ash Tuesday" examines the loneliness inherent in New York life, but it does so with a refreshing wit and humor that will leave you smiling.
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Title: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Character: Prison Nurse
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: TV
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
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Summer of Sam
Title: Summer of Sam
Character: Bed Stuy Woman Interviewed
Released: July 2, 1999
Type: Movie
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
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Hook'd Up
Title: Hook'd Up
Character: Poet Woman
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Romance - Keith, a freelance journalist, knows sex sells. With the help of a personal ad, he decides to combine business and pleasure through a piece of freelance investigative reporting on the dating scene: 30 dates in 30 days, A Personal Journal. The research takes him beyond his wildest expectations. Keith's world begins to unravel when he meets a girl who sees right through him. Can his cool be liquefied by a funny thing called love? Is this true happiness or is it the prelude to a core meltdown? - Malik Yoba, Stacey Dash, Monteria Ivey
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Get on the Bus
Title: Get on the Bus
Character: Jindai
Released: October 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
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Girl 6
Title: Girl 6
Character: Switchboard Operator
Released: March 22, 1996
Type: Movie
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
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Nowhere Fast
Title: Nowhere Fast
Released: February 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The lives of 19 rather disagreeable people momentarily converge in a Brooklyn heat wave one Friday afternoon in director Cinque Lee's (Spike Lee's brother) collection of urban character studies.
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Losing Isaiah
Title: Losing Isaiah
Character: Marie
Released: March 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he is missing. In reality, the baby has been adopted by a warm-hearted social worker, Margaret Lewin, and her husband, Charles. Years later, Khaila has gone through rehab and holds a steady job. After learning that her child is still alive, she challenges Margaret for the custody.
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Crooklyn
Title: Crooklyn
Character: Aunt Maxine
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
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Fathers and Sons
Title: Fathers and Sons
Character: Lois
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A beach runner and bookworm has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and danger bond father and son.
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A Kiss Before Dying
Title: A Kiss Before Dying
Character: Cathy
Released: April 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.
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Mo' Better Blues
Title: Mo' Better Blues
Character: Indigo
Released: August 3, 1990
Type: Movie
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
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Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Title: Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Character: Self / Jade
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: Movie
The Behind-the-Scenes documentary of the dramatic comedy Do the Right Thing.
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Do the Right Thing
Title: Do the Right Thing
Character: Jade
Released: June 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione 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. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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Coffee and Cigarettes II
Title: Coffee and Cigarettes II
Character: Good Twin
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A brother and sister, sitting in a coffee bar, bicker mildly about whose idea it was to come to Memphis and which kind of cigarette is fresher. Danny, their waiter, comes by offering refills; after determining they are twins, he guesses which is the evil one. Without a pause, he sits down and offers his theory about Elvis's twin. He drones on. The good twin finally speaks up, giving her own opinion. The waiter is unfazed. After his boss finally calls him back to work, the twins are free to resume their bickering amidst the coffee and cigarettes.
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School Daze
Title: School Daze
Character: Lizzie Life
Released: February 12, 1988
Type: Movie
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
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She's Gotta Have It
Title: She's Gotta Have It
Character: Clorinda Bradford
Released: August 8, 1986
Type: Movie
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.