Highest rated movie: Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
Lowest rated movie: Beautiful Joe (2000)
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Looking for reviews of Jurnee Smollett movies? Cinafilm has a total of 2,298 reviews across 12 movies.
Movies starring Jurnee Smollett have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.
Selma, Lord, Selma - released in 1999 - is Jurnee Smollett's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 4 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jurnee Smollett is Beautiful Joe - released in 2000 - with a score of 49% based on 3 reviews.
Jurnee Diana Smollett was born on October 1, 1986 in New York City. She co-starred in the ABC television comedy On Our Own (1994–1995) and guest appeared in numerous television shows: Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Full House, Martin, Wanda At Large, House, Grey's Anatomy, etc. She also co-starred in the last two seasons of Friday Night Lights. Smollett is best known for her role in the independent film Eve's Bayou (1997), for which she received critical acclaim as ten-year-old Eve. Smollett was featured in the 1996 Francis Ford Coppola film Jack. She starred in the racially charged 1999 Disney film Selma Lord Selma. In 2000 she co-starred with Sharon Stone and Billy Connelly in the comedy film Beautiful Joe. 2001 would find Jurnee co-starring as daughter to another popular actress, Angela Bassett, in the film Ruby's Bucket of Blood. Smollett co-starred with actors Bow Wow and Brandon T Jackson in the 2005 skater movie Roll Bounce. In 2006 she joined the film Gridiron Gang. In 2007 actor/director Denzel Washington cast Smollett in The Great Debaters. As of September 2010, she is co-stars with Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell in the CBS legal drama The Defenders. She has been active in HIV/AIDS causes since she was eleven. She spoke at the Ryan White Youth Conference, and elsewhere, on this issue. Smollett is on the Board of Directors of Artists for a New South Africa, dedicated to dealing with HIV/AIDS in Africa. On October 24, 2010, Jurnee married musician Josiah Bell.
Jurnee Smollett has acted in films with Meagan Good, Anthony Molinari, L. Warren Young and Marcus Lyle Brown.
Jurnee Smollett has worked with these film directors: Denzel Washington, Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Kosinski and Phil Joanou.
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