Jurnee Smollett

Birth : 1986-10-01, New York City, New York, USA

History

Jurnee Diana Smollett (born October 1, 1986) is an American actress. Smollett began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own (1994–1995) and Full House (1992–1994). As an adult, Smollett has starred in the films The Great Debaters (2007), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), and Birds of Prey (2020). Her television roles include the NBC sports drama Friday Night Lights (2009–2011), the HBO fantasy horror drama True Blood (2013–2014), the WGN America period drama Underground (2016–2017), and the HBO horror drama Lovecraft Country (2020). For the latter, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

Profile

Movies

The Burial

A lawyer helps a funeral home owner save his family business from a corporate behemoth. In a move to bring resonance to a dry case, the lawyer digs up a complex web of race, power, and oppression that forces everyone to examine prejudices.

Lou

Hannah

A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their past.

Spiderhead

Lizzy

A prisoner in a state-of-the-art penitentiary begins to question the purpose of the emotion-controlling drugs he's testing for a pharmaceutical genius.

A Night at the Academy Museum

Herself

Exclusive look at the movies' 120-year history as well as an insight into the largest institution in the U.S. dedicated to the arts, sciences and artists of moviemaking.

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)

Dinah Lance / Black Canary

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

One Last Thing

Lucy

Dylan Derringer, a lonely dentist in Florida, is confronted by a figure from the past bringing news that sends him on an eventful and ultimately life-altering journey of discovery.

Hands of Stone

Juanita Leonard

The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Judith

A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.

Don Cheadle is Captain Planet - Part 4

Gaia

Captain Planet stars in a horrible film as human action hero, Croc Peterson... Then turns everyone into trees.

The Great Debaters

Samantha Booke

The true story of a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African-American college students into a historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite.

Gridiron Gang

Danyelle Rollins

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.

Roll Bounce

Tori

In the summer of 1978, a teenager and his group of friends face new challenges when their neighborhood roller-skating rink closes, forcing them to visit a different rink.

Ruby's Bucket of Blood

Emerald Delacroix

A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.

Beautiful Joe

Vivien Mason

An extremely nice guy falls for a really bad girl

Selma, Lord, Selma

Sheyann Webb

In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery.

Eve's Bayou

Eve Batiste

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

Jack

Phoebe

Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10-year-old looks like a 40-year-old man. After years of being tutored at home, Jack convinces his overprotective parents to send him to public school. The children don't know what to make of Jack, but with the help of his fifth-grade teacher, he makes an effort to win them over.

Sunday in Paris

Alison Chase

A pilot for an unsold NBC series. A single woman with three children realizes that her family has lost sight of their values and gives up her career as a daytime-drama actress in New York to move back with her extended family on their Texas farm.

Sunflower

Two women struggle to escape from a deranged college professor who holds them hostage on a remote sunflower farm.

The Twilight Zone: Ovation

Jasmine Delancey

Black Canary

Dinah Lance / Black Canary

A new DC film about Black Canary, first introduced in Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).