Jenifer Lewis is an American film, theatre, and television actress, comedian, and singer, best known for The Princess and the Frog, Cars, and Cast Away. Other film credits include The Wedding Ringer, Cars/2, Antwone Fisher, Blast from the Past, Dead Presidents, What’s Love Got to Do with It, Beaches, and Corrina, Corrina.

Television credits include Ruby on ABC’s Black-ish, Veretta Childs on UPN’s/CW’s Girlfriends, Aunt Helen on NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Receptionist Lana Hawkins on Lifetime’s Strong Medicine, and Dean Dorothy Dandridge Davenport on NBC’s A Different World.

Theatre credits include her Broadway debut in Eubie! (Ambassador Theatre), Motormouth Maybelle in Hairspray (Neil Simon Theatre), Rock N’ Roll! The First 5,000 Years (St. James Theatre), and Trio Member/Others in Comin’ Uptown (Winter Garden Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Yvette in Mother Courage and Her Children (Delacorte Theatre), The Vagina Monologues (Westside Theatre), and The Diva is Dismissed (Public Theater).