Luenell

Luenell
Luenell at the 79th Annual Academy Awards Children Uniting Nations/Billboard afterparty, February 2007
Born	Luenell Campbell (1959-03-12) March 12, 1959 (age 53) Tollette, Arkansas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress/Comedienne
Years active	1993–present

Luenell Campbell (born March 12, 1959), known professionally as Luenell, is an American comedienne and actress.

She was born in Tollette, Arkansas and uses only her first name. She is the youngest of eight children.^[1] She was raised in Northern California and attended Castro Valley High School.^[1] Luenell has one daughter, and lives in Los Angeles, California.

In the early 1990s Luenell appeared regularly on Soul Beat TV on the Oakland, California cable station KSBT, along with prominent Bay Area African-American journalist Chauncey Bailey, an interview and talk show host on the program.^[2]

Luenell was one of the few actual actors in the 2006 hit mockumentary-styled comedy film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In it, Luenell plays a prostitute of the same name, a hooker with a heart of gold. She has also been seen on the BET comedy series, Comicview, and is featured on the new season of Wild 'N Out.

Luenell was in the second episode of the Comedy Central comedic reality show, Reality Bites Back.

As of 2009 she has been dating Romico Barnes Jr.

Filmography

Luenell in December 2010

• So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)- Police Records Officer
• The Rock (1996)- Female Tourist
• Never Die Alone (2004)- Jasper
• So Fresh, So Clean... a Down and Dirty Comedy (2005)- Mrs. Keyes
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)- Luenell The Hooker
• American Hustle (2007) as herself
• The Hustle (2008)- Metermaid
• Spring Breakdown (2009)- Hooker
• All About Steve (2009)- Protester's Wife
• Californication (2009)- Rhonda (4 episodes)
• Head Case (2009)- Twinkle Finklestein
• The Boondocks (2010)- Nellie Ruckus (1 episode)
• 35 and Ticking (2011)- Dondra
• The Middle (2010)- Security Women (2 episodes)
• Breaking In (2011)- Lunch Truck Lady (1 episode)
• Budz House (2011)- Mary Jane Howard (completed)
• It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (2011)- Dylan Toback/Catfish (1 episode)
• Think Like a Man (2012)- Aunt Winnie
• C'mon Man (2012)- Joyce (post-production)
• That's My Boy (2012)- Champale (post-production)
• Reverence (2012)- Sunny (pre-production)
• Hotel Transylvania (2012) - TBA (filming)

References

External links

• Luenell's website
• Luenell at the Internet Movie Database
• Luenell's MySpace page