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Sharon Lewis

Canadian television personality and film director

Summary

Canadian television personality and film director

Field	Value
name	Sharon Lewis
image	An Evening With Pam Grier (6830128909).jpg
caption	Lewis at the Black History Month event "An Evening with Pam Grier" in 2011
birth_name	Sharon M. Lewis
birth_place	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
nationality	Canadian
alma_mater	University of Toronto (BA)
occupation
years_active	1995present

Sharon M. Lewis is a Canadian television personality and film director from Toronto, Ontario. She studied political science at the University of Toronto. She was an actress and author before being 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. She called herself an "activist," saying "it's a journalist's job to activate change through information... Who isn't passionate and is in the journalist field, otherwise I don't know what would drive you?" After leaving ZeD, Ziya Tong took over as host. 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.

Filmography

Filmmaker

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
2006	Ritch (Short)	rowspan=16		rowspan=2
2009	Chains (Short)
2011	In Between Life (Short)
2016	See Me Now (Short)
2017	Brown Girl Begins
2019	Disruptor Conductor (Documentary)	rowspan=11	rowspan=11
2020	Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding
2021	Murdoch Mysteries
2021	With Wonder (Documentary)
2022	Hudson & Rex
2023	Power Book IV: Force
2024	Sight Unseen
2024	Chicago Med
2024	Power Book II: Ghost
2024	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
2024	FBI: Most Wanted

Actress

Year	Title	Role
1999	Lullaby (Short)	Creation Woman (as Sharon M. Lewis)
2001	Maple (Short)	Chamele (as Sharon M. Lewis)
2002	The Style of My Soul (Short)	as Sharon M. Lewis
2014	Happy 1 Year (Short)	Diana
2018	Mouthpiece	Barbara
2019	White Lie	Collette

References

John McKay, "Sharon Lewis finds activism experience a plus for new role as CounterSpin host," ''Western Star'', Corner Brook, Newfoundland: October 6, 2001, pg. 30.
Alex Strachan, "Audacious, energetic and offbeat: That's ZeD on CBC," ''[[The Vancouver Sun]]'', October 23, 2002, pg. B.6.FRO.
"Sharon Lewis calls it quits," ''Packet and Times'', Orillia, Ontario: June 19, 2002, pg. A.9.
"[http://individual.utoronto.ca/dtsang/hhlecture/bio.html Hart House Lecture 2006: Biographies] {{webarchive. link. (2005-11-23 ," [[University of Toronto]], URL accessed 13 March 2007.)
"[http://www.thecaribbeancamera.com/awards/canadian-premiere-brown-girl-begins-art-gallery-ontario-saturday/ Canadian premiere of Brown Girl Begins at the Art Gallery of Ontario on Saturday The Caribbean Camera]
https://www.talkofthetown411.com/2024/09/behind-scenes-power-book-2-ghost-season.html

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