Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Highest Rated: 82% Eve's Bayou (1996)

Lowest Rated: 17% Temptation (2013)

Birthday: Oct 1, 1986

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Modeled diapers at the age of 10 months; appeared in a Pepsi TV commercial with NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana when she was 3. Was homeschooled by her mother. Appeared regularly ina string ofsitcoms (ABC'sFull House, CBS's Cosby, Fox's Wanda at Large) and starred with her five siblings Jake, Jazz, Jocqui, Jojo and Jussie on the 1994-95 ABClaugher On Our Own. Won a Broadcast Film Critics Award forthe 1997 Samuel L. Jackson drama Eve's Bayou, along with NAACP Image Awards for Cosby (1999 and 2000) andtheDenzel Washington film drama The Great Debaters (2007). Became interested in HIV/AIDS issues when an On Our Own crew member died of AIDS; at age 19, began serving on the board of directors of Artists for a New South Africa, a nonprofit that focuses onHIV.

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Highest Rated Movies

Eve's Bayou
82%
The Great Debaters
80%
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
79%
Roll Bounce
65%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Spiderhead	Actor	—	2022
79%	Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)	Dinah Lance / Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	Birds of Prey e la fantasmagorica rinascita di Harley Quinn	Dinah Lance/Black Canary	—	2020
No Score Yet	One Last Thing - A Chicken Soup for the Soul Event	Bell-Lucy	—	2018
No Score Yet	Breaking Free	Actor	—	2017
44%	Hands of Stone	Juanita Leonard	$4.8M	2016
17%	Temptation	Judith	$52M	2013
80%	The Great Debaters	Samantha Booke	$30M	2007
42%	Gridiron Gang	Danyelle Rollins	$38.5M	2006
65%	Roll Bounce	Tori	$17.4M	2005
No Score Yet	Ruby's Bucket of Blood	Emerald Delacroix	—	2001
60%	Beautiful Joe	Vivien	—	2000
No Score Yet	Selma, Lord, Selma	Sheyann Webb	—	1999
17%	Jack	Phoebe	—	1996
82%	Eve's Bayou	Eve Batiste	—	1996

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
88%	Lovecraft Country 2020	Letitia "Leti" Dandridge Letitia Letitia Dandridge	2020
67%	The Twilight Zone 2019-2020	Actor	2020
97%	Friday Night Lights 2006-2011	Jess Merriweather	2020 2011 2010 2009 2007
No Score Yet	Harry 2016-2018	Guest	2017
No Score Yet	Sofia the First 2013-2019	Voice	2017
No Score Yet	The Late Show With Stephen Colbert 2015	Guest	2017 2016
96%	Underground 2016-2017	Rosalee	2017 2016
No Score Yet	Conan 2010-2021	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	Jimmy Kimmel Live 2003	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Chew 2011-2018	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Ellen DeGeneres Show 2003	Guest	2016
No Score Yet	The Talk 2010	Guest	2016
100%	The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore 2015-2016	Panelist	2016 2015
70%	True Blood 2008-2014	Nicole	2014 2013
15%	Do No Harm 2013	Abby	2013
88%	Parenthood 2010-2015	Heather	2013
No Score Yet	Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen 2009	Guest	2013
21%	The Mob Doctor 2012-2013	Traci Coolidge	2012
74%	The Defenders 2010-2011	Lisa Tyler Lisa Taylor	2011 2010
84%	Grey's Anatomy 2005	Beth	2008
90%	House 2004-2012	Tracy	2006
50%	Wanda at Large 2003	Holly Hawkins Holly	2003
No Score Yet	ER 1994-2009	Romy	2002
No Score Yet	Cosby 1996-2000	Jurnee	2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
83%	NYPD Blue 1993-2005	Hanna	1996 1995
0%	On Our Own 1994-1995	Jordee Jerrico	1995 1994
No Score Yet	Full House 1987-1995	Denise Denise Frazer	1994 1993 1992 1990
No Score Yet	Martin 1992-1997	Girl No. 1	1992
No Score Yet	The Cosby Show 1984-1992	Actor

Quotes from Jurnee Smollett-Bell's Characters

Janice:	Can't you just knock. Just the person I want to see have a seat
Judith:	No! I wanted to just say thank you for the job but it's going to be my last week.
Janice:	No! This is your last day, I just got a call telling me Harley is out of the deal with me and going to open practice with you.
Judith:	That's what we are planning to do!
Janice:	We? Little Girl you have no idea what you are in for. But I wish you with all the best with your struggle.
Judith:	You know I've been meaning to tell you are in a existential identity crisis; I done my research on you spent those two weeks in Paris and now of a sudden with a french accent, we know you from Georgia!!!.
Judith:	You know I've been meaning to tell you are in a existential identity crisis; I done my research on you spent those two weeks in Paris and now of a sudden with a french accent, we know you from Georgia!
Janice:	Bitch you better get your ass out of my office!!!!!!!!!
Janice:	Bitch you better get your ass out of my office!

Samantha Booke:	"Majority doesn't decide what is right or wrong, one's conscience does"
Samantha Booke:	Majority doesn't decide what is right or wrong, one's conscience does.