Cinqué Lee (born July 4, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmaker
Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary ...
.
Acting
Lee has worked in a number of different positions in his older brother's films, as a camera operator, video archivist, and most notably as a co-screenwriter in ''
Crooklyn'' (1994). He also had small roles in ''
School Daze
''School Daze'' is a 1988 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee and starring Lee along with Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry Fishburne), Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell. Released on February 12, 19 ...
'' (1988) and ''
Oldboy'' (2013). As an actor, he appeared in the
Jim Jarmusch
James Robert Jarmusch ( ; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and musician.
He has been a major proponent of independent film, independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films such as ''Stranger Than Paradise'' ...
-directed films ''
Mystery Train'' (1989) and ''
Coffee and Cigarettes'' (2003), and a number of other independent films.
Filmography
Lee is also a filmmaker himself, directing, producing and writing the following films: ''Window on Your Present'' (1988), ''Nowhere Fast'' (1997), ''Sink Like a Stone'' (2000), ''UR4 Given'' (2004), and ''Burn Out the Day'' (2010, co-directed with Sean Bohary).
References
External links
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Trailer for ''Window on Your Present''
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1966 births
Living people
Male actors from Brooklyn
African-American male actors
African-American film directors
African-American film producers
African-American screenwriters
Screenwriters from New York (state)
American male film actors
Film producers from New York (state)
American male screenwriters
Filmmakers from Brooklyn
Lee family (show business)
Film directors from New York City
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
African-American male writers