Name
Cheryl Dunye
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1966-05-13 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Monrovia, Liberia
Biography
Cheryl Dunye (born May 13, 1966) is a film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress. Dunye is a lesbian and her work often concerns themes of race, sexuality, and gender, particularly issues relating to black lesbians.
Known For
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A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing from her stores a...
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A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s blac...
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About the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life and the speculation swi...
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A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant...
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With things growing a bit stale in the bedroom, lesbian couple Claudia and Dylan agree to ...
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After a stint in a juvenile detention center, Treasure is transferred to an adult prison w...
- 1993 Sex Fish
- 1997 The Watermelon Woman as Cheryl
- 1993 Strange Weather as Crystal
- 1996 Greetings from Africa as Cheryl
- 1998 Women of Vision as Self
- 2017 Mansfield 66/67 as Self
- 2003 Sisters in Cinema as Self
- 2012 Mommy Is Coming as Cabby
- 1998 Lavender Limelight as Self
- 2018 Dykes, Camera, Action! as Self
- 1990 Janine
- 1992 Vanilla Sex as Narrator
- 1992 She Don't Fade as Cheryl / Shae Clarke
- 2010 The Owls as Carol
- 1993 The Potluck and the Passion
- 1993 An Untitled Portrait as (voice)
- 2010 Hooters! as Self
- Soon The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye as herself
- Soon The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye as herslef
- 2024 Hollywood Black ( 4 episodes ) as Self
