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Sharon Lewis
Canadian television personality and film director From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sharon M. Lewis is a Canadian television personality and film director from Toronto, Ontario. She studied political science at the University of Toronto.[1] 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.[2] She began her career on counterSpin with a special on the September 11 attacks.[1] 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?"[1] After leaving ZeD, Ziya Tong took over as host.[3] Lewis subsequently established the company urbansoul inc., which promotes the art of minority women.[4]
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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.[5]
In 2024, she directed the mid-season premiere of Power Book II: Ghost,[6] from the Power franchise.
Lewis is a member of Film Fatales.
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