Jungle Fever

Film roles in Jungle Fever (1991), directed by Spike Lee, and in Boomerang (1992), starring Eddie Murphy, first brought her notice. She starred with Jessica Lange in Losing Isaiah (1995), a drama about adoption, before earning acclaim for her portrayal of film star Dorothy Dandridge, the first

…Do the Right Thing (1989); Jungle Fever (1991), in which Dee also appeared; and Malcolm X (1992), in which he reenacted the real-life eulogy he had given for the fallen civil rights leader. Davis also spoke at the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.

…the Right Thing (1989) and Jungle Fever (1991). Among their television credits are Roots: The Next Generations (1979), Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum (1986), and The Stand (1994). The couple’s partnership extended into their activism as well; they served as master and mistress of ceremonies for the…

…instance, with interracial relationships in Jungle Fever (1991) and with the diversity of opinions within the Black community in Get on the Bus (1996).

…later had supporting roles in Jungle Fever (1991) and the biopic Malcolm X (1992), both of which were directed by Spike Lee. In 1994 Imperioli appeared in an episode of NYPD Blue, which marked his TV debut.

…Mo’ Better Blues (1990), and Jungle Fever (1991), for which Jackson garnered the first best supporting actor award ever bestowed by the Cannes film festival judges for his riveting performance as a hard-core drug addict. That role prompted Jackson, who had just come out of rehab, to permanently end his…

…big-screen debut in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever, and after several television appearances she was signed in 1993 to costar in the series Living Single, a sitcom about a group of young Black professionals who live in the same apartment building in Brooklyn. The show ended in 1998, and later that…

…with his white secretary in Jungle Fever, also directed by Lee. In 1992, after starring roles in White Men Can’t Jump and The Waterdance, Snipes played an airline security expert who battles terrorists in Passenger 57, which was a hit at the box office.