Sharon Lewis

Sharon M. Lewis is a Canadian television personality and film director from Toronto, Ontario. She studied political science at the University of Toronto.

She began her career in theatre, collaborating with Maxine Bailey on the play Sistahs in 1994. The two subsequently launched their own theatre company, Sugar & Spice Productions.

She continued to work as an actress and author before becoming the host of counterSpin on CBC Television in 2001, and then hosted ZeD, also for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She began her career on counterSpin with a special on the September 11 attacks.

Lewis subsequently established the company urbansoul inc., which promotes the art of minority women.

During her acting career, she appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation as the mother of Jimmy Brooks, who was played by rapper Drake. She also appeared in the film Troubled Waters.

In 2017, Lewis directed her Afro-futurist feature film Brown Girl Begins, a feature film prequel to the celebrated novel Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.

In 2024, she directed the mid-season premiere of Power Book II: Ghost, from the Power franchise.

Lewis is a member of Film Fatales.

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