# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jenifer-lewis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:24:21.554Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jenifer-lewis"
name: "Jenifer Lewis"
slug: "jenifer-lewis"
description: "Jenifer Jeanette Lewis is an American actress and singer. 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)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jenifer_Lewis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1957-01-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.807272
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/JeniferLewis"
    handle:    "JeniferLewis"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/jeniferlewisforreal/"
    handle:    "jeniferlewisforreal"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/JeniferLewisForReal"
    handle:    "JeniferLewisForReal"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507338/"
    handle:    "nm0507338"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6e28WiPlKSu1ukkhHCZEnF"
    handle:    "6e28WiPlKSu1ukkhHCZEnF"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جنيفير لويس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "제니퍼 루이스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Lewis"
    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Льюис, Дженифер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenifer_Lewis"
    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ஜெனிபர் லீவிஸ்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jenifer Lewis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جینیفر لیوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542262"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump