Brenda Lee (Actor)

Reviews of Brenda Lee Movies

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Movies starring Brenda Lee have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

Country: Portraits of an American Sound - released in 2015 - is Brenda Lee's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Brenda Lee is Smokey and the Bandit II - released in 1980 - with a score of 48% based on 225 reviews.

Actor Biography

Brenda Lee (born Brenda Mae Tarpley; December 11, 1944) is an American performer and the top-charting solo female vocalist of the 1960s. She sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 47 US chart hits during the 1960s, and is ranked fourth in that decade surpassed only by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and Ray Charles. She is known for her 1960 hit "I'm Sorry", and 1958's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", which has become a Christmas standard.

At 4 feet 9 inches tall (approximately 145 cm), she received the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite" in 1957, after recording the song "Dynamite" when she was 12, and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

In 1969, Lee returned to the charts with her recording "Johnny One Time". The song reached #3 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart and #41 on Billboard's Hot 100. The song also earned Lee her second Grammy nomination for Best Pop Female Vocal. Later success came with a return to her roots as a country singer, with a string of hits through the 1970s and 1980s.

She is a member of the Rock and Roll, Country Music and Rockabilly Halls of Fame. She is also a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Lee is the only woman to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame.

Brenda Lee has acted in films with Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Paul Williams and Nancy Lenehan.

Brenda Lee has worked with these film directors: Hal Needham and Steven Kochones.