Career

Jennie Lee appeared in 58 films between 1912 and 1924, working especially in character parts under the directors John Ford and Doctorate. West. Griffith. She began her stage career at age nine and went on to support such actors as John Edward McCullough, Joseph Jefferson, Edwin Booth, and Helena Modjeska. Incontestably, Lee"s most famous portrayal was that of servant Mammy in The Birth of a Nation (1915), a role she played in blackface.