![]() ![]() But she wanted her daughter to be unique and so, “My mother wanted something different in my name,” Lewis said. ![]() She writes about being raped as a teen by the pastor of her childhood church, her battle with bipolar disorder and sex addiction and her gradual emergence as a Hollywood mainstay.Īnd while her face and her booming voice may be recognizable to some, her name is still one that escapes many - especially the unusual way of spelling her first name with one “n.”In the small town of Kinloch, Missouri, Dorothy Mae Lewis named her youngest of seven children after the 1940s actress Jennifer Jones. She chronicles her life as a 1980s musical theater performer, watching hundreds of her theater friends die of AIDS. as part of a mini-tour to promote her new memoir, “The Mother of Black Hollywood,” based on diaries that she has kept since she was in the seventh grade. Last weekend, the energetic 60-year-old actress-dancer-singer blew into D.C. These days, she plays Anthony Anderson’s mother on the ABC show “Blackish.” Armed with her penchant for delivering memorable one-liners, Lewis launched a nearly 25-year career of playing the mother, auntie or grandmother to such stars as Will Smith, Tupac Shakur and Whitney Houston. That film established Lewis in what was to become her signature role: the matriarch. “Hell, for that money,” Lewis recalled, “I would have played the daddy.” ![]()
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