Jurnee Smollett-Bell
Biography
Jurnee Smollett-Bell is an American actress who began as a child performer in television sitcoms, among them On Our Own and Full House. Her breakthrough came with the role of a ten-year-old in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou (1997), which brought a Critics' Choice Movie Award. As an adult she starred in The Great Debaters (2007) and Birds of Prey (2020), and she led Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013). Her other film work includes Jack (1996), Selma, Lord, Selma (1999), Beautiful Joe (2000), Roll Bounce (2005), Gridiron Gang (2006), Hands of Stone (2016), and Lou (2022), which she also executive produced. On television she was a regular on Friday Night Lights, True Blood, and Underground, and she played Letitia Lewis in Lovecraft Country, earning an Emmy nomination as lead actress in a drama series. She won NAACP Image Awards for Cosby and The Great Debaters.
40years old
Turns 41 on October 1in 353 days
- Born New York City
- Star sign: LibraThe sign runs September 23 to October 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 17
- Career span
- 28 years1996 to 2024
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Jurnee Smollett-Bell movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)2020 Action, Crimeas Dinah Lance / Black Canary
IMDb rating 6.1286K votes
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Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Box office
What Jurnee Smollett-Bell's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$428 million
10 of the 17 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 17 films: 10 worldwide figure; 5 never in cinemas; 1 streaming, short cinema run; 1 figure not found.
- 10Worldwide figure
- 5Never in cinemas
- 1Streaming, short cinema run
- 1Figure not found
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)2020as Dinah Lance / Black Canary$206M48.0% of the total
- 2$59M13.7% of the total
- 3$53M12.4% of the total
- 4$42M9.7% of the total
- 5$30M7.1% of the total
- 6$17M4.0% of the total
- 7$15M3.5% of the total
- 8$5.0M1.2% of the total
$2.3 millionfrom the other 2 films with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total