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Jurnee Diana Smollett was born in New York City, [2] to Janet Harris and Joel Smollett. Her father was Ashkenazi Jewish, with ancestors from Russia and Poland, [3] [4] [5] while her mother is African American. [6] [7] [8] She is the fourth of six siblings, all performers: [9] one sister, Jazz Smollett, [10] and four brothers, Jussie, JoJo, Jake ...
Smollett used the opportunity to deride the social norms of the Kingdom of France and the Italian states, and to voice his Anti-Catholicism. The book inspired a reply in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) by Laurence Sterne, which contained a satirical depiction of Smollett as Smelfungus.
Jussie Smollett was born in Santa Rosa, California, [2] to Joel and Janet (née Harris) Smollett. He has three brothers and two sisters: Jake, Jocqui, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jazz, several of whom are also actors. [3] Smollett is biracial [4] and Jewish. [5] His mother is African-American, and his father is Jewish. [6]
Smollett has grown used to hearing sentiments like that — with “Lovecraft Country,” for example, audiences were inspired to research more about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre or sundown towns ...
Smollett also starred alongside his sister Jurnee Smollett as Samuel L. Jackson's son in the critically acclaimed [6] feature film Eve's Bayou, [7] directed by Kasi Lemmons. He was in ABC Family's [8] The Middleman. Jake portrayed Noser, [9] a character derived from Javier Grillo-Marxuach's [10] comic book.
Smelfungus is a character in the novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, written by Laurence Sterne in 1768. The character was created as a satire of Tobias Smollett, himself author of a volume of Travels Through France and Italy, which was published in 1766. Sterne had met Smollett during his own travels in Europe, and strongly ...
Lacy, at her piano teacher’s house, picks up a Red Riding Hood doll. She flips the skirt inside out. It transforms into the grandmother. She pulls back the bonnet and, boom, now it’s the wolf.
On Our Own is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from September 13, 1994, until April 14, 1995. The series stars Ralph Louis Harris and six real life siblings: Jazz, Jocqui, Jake, Jojo, Jurnee, and Jussie Smollett.