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Spike Lee - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Spike Lee is an American producer, director, and actor. Born in the spring of 1957 in Atlanta. Spike's mother Jacqueline Carroll worked as a teacher of African American literature and art. His father, William Lee, is a renowned jazz composer and musician. Spike became the firstborn in the family. He has three brothers and a sister.
In the early sixties, Lee moved to Brooklyn, New York. Growing up, Spike entered Morehouse, a local male art college. Only African Americans have been studying here for a long time. It was in college that the aspiring director made his debut student film.
Spike later graduated from Clark, the famous University of Atlanta. And the next place of study for him was the New York Academy of Arts, where Lee studied cinema.
In 1986 there was a picture She needs it desperately - the first major film with Spike Lee as a director. Over the next few years, the filmmaker directed the Jungle Fever and Blues melodramas about a better life, the comedy musical School Years Wonderful, and the dramas Malcolm X, Crooklyn, Pushers and Get on the Bus.
In many of his films, Spike also acts as an actor. Moreover, Lee owns a production company through which many films have already passed: Paratrooper Platoon, Cases in New Jersey, Best Man, Quarter Stories, Clash in New York, Fences, Les Miserables, Love and Basketball, Oldboy and many others.
Spike Lee lives in Manhattan's famous East Side. He is married to Tona Lewis, who is a lawyer. They have two children: a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Sutchel. Films with Spike Lee in the frame, as well as films shot and produced by him, watch on our website.
Spike Lee has brown eyes, naturally dark hair, dark skin and full lips. The shape of the face is rectangular, the forehead is medium, the hair is curly, thick. Spike Lee does not change hair color, preferring natural. The actor has a large, wide nose and a rectangular chin. Spike Lee wears glasses, loses his mustache and beard. The actor is 165 cm tall and has tattoos.
