129 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
Joie Lee attended St. Ann’s School.
College/University
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Joie Lee studied at Sarah Lawrence College.
Career
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2009
New York City, New York, United States
Joie Lee attends the 20th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at Directors Guild of America Theater on June 29, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris
Gallery of Joie Lee
2009
New York City, New York, United States
John Turturro, Joie Lee, composer Bill Lee, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, and director Spike Lee attend the 20th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at the Directors Guild of America Theater on June 29, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris
Gallery of Joie Lee
2009
225 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001, United States
Self Magazine senior fashion editor Robin Page (L), Designer Yeohlee Tang (C), and actor Joie Lee attend Yeohlee Spring 2010 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 225 West 35th Street on September 14, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Paul Warner
Gallery of Joie Lee
2013
1 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States
Spike Lee and Joie Lee attend the 20th annual Dorothy And Lillian Gish Prize at The Museum of Modern Art on October 30, 2013, in New York City. Photo by Michael N. Todaro
Gallery of Joie Lee
2014
651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
Joie Lee, Bill Lee, and Spike Lee attend the 25th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at the closing night of the 2014 BAMcinemaFest at BAM Harvey Theater on June 29, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Photo by Noam Galai
Gallery of Joie Lee
2017
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
Actress Joie Lee (Coffee and Cigarettes) attends Netflix Original Series "She's Gotta Have It" Premiere and After Party at BAM Rose Center on November 11, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York City. Photo by Johnny Nunez
Gallery of Joie Lee
2019
19 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003, United States
Joie Lee (L) and Spike Lee attend the Spike Lee Oscar Nomination Celebration at Frankie's on January 22, 2019, in New York City. Photo by Johnny Nunez
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2019
Hollywood, California, United States
Special Guest Joie Lee attends The 30th Anniversary Screening of When Harry Met Sally… Opening Night at the 2019 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 11, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Emma McIntyre
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2019
Hollywood, California, United States
(L-R) TCM Brand Activation & Partnership VP Genevieve McGillicuddy, Special Guests Robi Reed and Ruth E. Carter, TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz and Special Guest Joie Lee attend the screening of Do the Right Thing at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Stefanie Keenan
Gallery of Joie Lee
2019
445 Albee Square W 4th floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
Joie Lee attends the "She's Gotta Have It" Season 2 Premiere at Alamo Drafthouse on May 23, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York. Photo by Theo Wargo
Gallery of Joie Lee
2019
Hollywood, California, United States
(L-R) Special Guests Dr. Hasna Muhammad and Joie Lee at the screening of Do the Right Thing at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Stefanie Keenan
Joie Lee attends the 20th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at Directors Guild of America Theater on June 29, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris
John Turturro, Joie Lee, composer Bill Lee, Danny Aiello, Ruby Dee Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, and director Spike Lee attend the 20th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at the Directors Guild of America Theater on June 29, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris
225 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001, United States
Self Magazine senior fashion editor Robin Page (L), Designer Yeohlee Tang (C), and actor Joie Lee attend Yeohlee Spring 2010 during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at 225 West 35th Street on September 14, 2009, in New York City. Photo by Paul Warner
Spike Lee and Joie Lee attend the 20th annual Dorothy And Lillian Gish Prize at The Museum of Modern Art on October 30, 2013, in New York City. Photo by Michael N. Todaro
Joie Lee, Bill Lee, and Spike Lee attend the 25th-anniversary screening of "Do The Right Thing" at the closing night of the 2014 BAMcinemaFest at BAM Harvey Theater on June 29, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Photo by Noam Galai
30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217, United States
Actress Joie Lee (Coffee and Cigarettes) attends Netflix Original Series "She's Gotta Have It" Premiere and After Party at BAM Rose Center on November 11, 2017, in Brooklyn, New York City. Photo by Johnny Nunez
Special Guest Joie Lee attends The 30th Anniversary Screening of When Harry Met Sally… Opening Night at the 2019 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival on April 11, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Emma McIntyre
(L-R) TCM Brand Activation & Partnership VP Genevieve McGillicuddy, Special Guests Robi Reed and Ruth E. Carter, TCM Primetime Host Ben Mankiewicz and Special Guest Joie Lee attend the screening of Do the Right Thing at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Stefanie Keenan
(L-R) Special Guests Dr. Hasna Muhammad and Joie Lee at the screening of Do the Right Thing at the 2019 TCM 10th Annual Classic Film Festival on April 12, 2019, in Hollywood, California. Photo by Stefanie Keenan
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Laurence Fishburne poses for a portrait during ABC's 2014 TCA summer press tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 15, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/ABC/ABC via Getty Images)
(On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford...)
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
(Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a s...)
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband, and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
(A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the ...)
A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
(Takes place in a world where color and love do not exist....)
Takes place in a world where color and love do not exist. The people who live in this dreary world have nothing to live for and often end up killing themselves.
Joie Lee is an American screenwriter, film producer, director, and actress. She has appeared in many movies, including She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, etc.
Background
Joie Lee was born on June 22, 1962, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She is the daughter of William "Bill" James Edwards, a jazz bassist, composer, and actor, and Jacquelyn Lee. Joie has three brothers, Spike, Cinque, and David. In 1976 her mother died of cancer and her father married Susan Kaplan. She also has a half-brother, Arnold.
Education
Joie Lee attended St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, New York. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College.
Joie Lee made her acting debut in 1986, in the role of Clorinda Bradford in her brother Spike Lee’s film, She’s Gotta Have it. The movie was a commercial success and made $7.1 million at the box office. Next, she appeared as Lizzie Lie in the musical comedy-drama movie School Daze. Released on February 12, 1988, by Columbia Pictures, it was directed by Spike Lee.
Her other acting credits include such films as Mo' Better Blues (1990) and Do The Right Thing (1989), directed by her brother Spike Lee. She has also been featured in Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), directed by Jim Jarmusch. Joie made her Broadway debut in Mule Bone, written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. She also appeared off-Broadway in Jessica Goldbergs The Hologram Theory.
Joie has written and directed short films, including Subway Vignettes, Part l and ll, and Snapped (2001). Her other work as a screenwriter includes Positive, a feature length screenplay, and Jesus Children of America, a UNICEF sponsored short. Producing credits include Crooklyn, Jesus Children of America and Nowhere Fast (1997).
She has also appeared in the movies A Kiss Before Dying, Fathers & Sons, Crooklyn, Losing Isaiah, Girl 6, Get on the Bus, Nowhere Fast, Personals, Summer of Sam, Coffee and Cigarettes, She Hate Me, Full Grown Men, Start Out in the Evening, Window on Your Present, and Da Sweet Blood of Jesus.
Lee has starred on the television series She's Gotta Have It as Septima in 2017. Joie has taught acting, directing and writing at the School of Visual Arts; theater at St. Anns School in Brooklyn, New York; and has been a teaching artist for Franklin Furnace Archives.