Cookie Lommel

Cookie Lommel (born 1960) is an American author, biographer, film producer, and activist.

Early life Cookie Lommel was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Early on she worked as a journalist for Cashbox magazine and Radio & Records magazine. She has also worked as an entertainment industry reporter at CNN and as entertainment editor at Teen Magazine.

Activism In 2003, she was named the executive director of the Jewish Labor Committee's Western region. a non-profit organization that funded the travel of inner city minority students to live on an Israeli Kibbutz.

Author Lommel authored the 2001 book The History of Rap Music and Black Filmmakers in 2002. She is also the author of unauthorized biographies for Russell Simmons, Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Oglethorpe, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., Arthur Miller, Madame C.J. Walker, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Mary Church Terrell.

Personal life She was married to actor and film director Ulli Lommel between 1988 and 2004.