Cinqué Lee | |
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Born | (1966-07-04)July 4, 1966 (age 58) Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Occupation(s) | Actor,filmmaker |
Years active | 1986–present |
Parent | Bill Lee |
Relatives | Spike Lee (brother) David Lee (brother) Joie Lee (sister) Malcolm D. Lee (cousin) |
Cinqué Lee (born July 4, 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmakerSpike Lee.
Lee has worked in a number of different positions in his older brother's films, as a camera operator, video archivist, and most notably as a co-screenwriter inCrooklyn (1994). He also had small roles inSchool Daze (1988) andOldboy (2013). As an actor, he appeared in theJim Jarmusch-directed filmsMystery Train (1989) andCoffee and Cigarettes (2003), and a number of other independent films.[1]
Lee is also a filmmaker himself, directing, producing and writing the following films:Window on Your Present (1988),[2][3]Nowhere Fast (1997),Sink Like a Stone (2000),UR4 Given (2004), andBurn Out the Day (2010, co-directed with Sean Bohary).[4][5]