Luenell
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Born | Luenell Campbell March 12, 1959[1] |
Occupation(s) | Actress, comedian |
Years active | 1993–present |
Children | 1 |
Luenell Campbell (born March 12, 1959), known mononymously as Luenell, is an American comedian and actress.
Life and career
Luenell was born in Tollette, Arkansas, and is best known by her first name. The youngest of eight children,[2] she was raised in Northern California and attended Castro Valley High School.[2] She has one daughter and lives in Los Angeles, California.
In the early-1990s, Luenell appeared regularly on Soul Beat TV on the Oakland, California cable station KSBT, along with prominent Bay Area African-American journalist Chauncey Bailey, an interviewer and talk show host on the program.[3] Luenell was one of the few hired actors[citation needed] in the 2006 hit mockumentary comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In the film, Luenell plays a prostitute of the same name, a hooker with a heart of gold, who later marries Borat.
In 2012, she acted in three #1 feature films: Think Like A Man; the 3D animated hit Hotel Transylvania, with Adam Sandler; and Taken 2, with Liam Neeson. She also co-starred in the comedy That's My Boy with Adam Sandler and Leighton Meester. TV appearances include episodes of The Middle and It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, as well as stand-up appearances on Snoop Dog's Bad Girls of Comedy on Showtime and Stand-up In Stilettos on the TV Guide Network.
An interview and non-nude photo spread of Luenell appeared in the April 2017 issue of Penthouse magazine.
Filmography
Films
- So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
- The Rock (1996)
- Never Die Alone (2004)
- So Fresh, So Clean... a Down and Dirty Comedy (2005)
- Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
- Divine Intervention (2007)
- American Hustle (2007)
- The Hustle (2008)
- Spring Breakdown (2009)
- All About Steve (2009)
- Head Case (2009)
- 35 and Ticking (2011)
- Budz House (2011)
- Think Like a Man (2012)
- That's My Boy (2012)
- C'mon Man (2012)
- Taken 2 (2012) - Driving Instructor
- Mac & Devin Go to High School (2012)
- Hotel Transylvania (2012)
- Think Like a Man Too (2014)
- School Dance (2014)
- Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)
- The Comedian's Guide to Survival (2016)
- A Star Is Born (2018)
- Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
- Coming 2 America (2020)
- All-Star Weekend (TBA)
Television
- Nash Bridges (1996)
- The Tracy Morgan Show (2004)
- Hey Luenell (2009); TV film
- The Tony Rock Project (2009)
- Californication (2009)
- The Boondocks (2010)
- Laugh Out Loud Comedy Festival (2011)
- Funny or Die Presents (2011)
- The Middle (2011)
- Breaking In (2011)
- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2011)
- The Rickey Smiley Show (2012)
- Comedy Underground (2012)
- Snoop Dogg Presents: The Bad Girls of Comedy (2012) (TV film)
- DTLA (2012)
- Black Dynamite (2014)
- Black Jesus (2015)
- Bunnicula (2016)
- Lopez (2017)
- Hollywood Unlocked (2019)[4]
References
- ^ Krefting, Rebecca (2014). All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents. JHU Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-1-4214-1429-4. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ a b Luenell biography, thestar.com
- ^ Josh Richman; Douglas Fischer (2007-08-03). "Bailey's career in news spanned globe for decades". Oakland Tribune. Archived from the original on 2017-09-17.
- ^ "Luenell on Malik Yoba's Sexuality & Nicole Murphy Cheating on Hollywood Unlocked [UNCENSORED]" – via www.youtube.com.
External links
- 1959 births
- Living people
- People from Howard County, Arkansas
- Actresses from Arkansas
- African-American actresses
- African-American comedians
- Actresses from Oakland, California
- American women comedians
- People from Castro Valley, California
- Comedians from California
- 20th-century American comedians
- 21st-century American comedians