Cinqué Lee | |
Birth Place: | Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Occupation: | Actor, filmmaker |
Years Active: | 1986–present |
Parents: | Bill Lee |
Relatives: | Spike Lee (brother) David Lee (brother) Joie Lee (sister) Malcolm D. Lee (cousin) |
Cinqué Lee (born July 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Spike 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 in Crooklyn (1994). He also had small roles in School Daze (1988) and Oldboy (2013). As an actor, he appeared in the Jim Jarmusch-directed films Mystery Train (1989) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and a number of other independent films.[1]
Lee is also a filmmaker himself, directing, producing and writing the films Nowhere Fast (1997), Sink Like a Stone (2000, short film), UR4 Given (2004), Window on Your Present (2010), and Burn Out the Day (2010, co-directed with Sean Bohary).[2] [3]