Jenifer Lewis
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 Jenifer Lewis facts

• 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 best known for playing roles of mothers in films What's Love Got to Do With It (1993), The Preacher's Wife (1996), The Brothers (2001), Think Like a Man and in the sequel Think Like a Man Too (2014), Baggage Claim (2013), and The Wedding Ringer (2015), as well as in The Temptations TV miniseries (1998)
• As such, Lewis earned the title, "Black Mother of Hollywood"
• She also had roles in films include Dead Presidents (1995), Cast Away (2000), and Hereafter (2010)
• On television, Lewis starred as Lana Hawkins in the Lifetime medical drama, Strong Medicine from 2000 to 2006
• She also had the recurring roles on sitcoms A Different World, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Girlfriends
• In 2014, Lewis began starring as Ruby Johnson in the ABC comedy series, Black-ish, for which she received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination