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American actress (born 1957)

For similarly named people, see Jennifer Lewis (disambiguation).

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born January 25, 1957)^[1] is an American actress. She began her career appearing in Broadway musicals and worked as a back-up singer for Bette Midler before appearing in films Beaches (1988) and Sister Act (1992).

Lewis is known for playing roles of mothers in the films What's Love Got to Do With It (1993), Poetic Justice (1993), The Preacher's Wife (1996), The Brothers (2001), The Cookout (2004), Think Like a Man (2012) and in the sequel Think Like a Man Too (2014), Baggage Claim (2013) and The Wedding Ringer (2015), as well as in The Temptations miniseries (1998).

Lewis is known unofficially as "The Mother of Black Hollywood" (also the name of her memoir) given her frequent matriarchal film and television roles.^[2][3] She also provided the voice for Mama Odie in Disney's animated feature Arnold Byrd | Wife Jenifer Lewis And Married Life GYT