Leslie Jones Before She Was Famous (Remastered) (Repos Movie Scene)
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Date: 2017-03-14

Leslie Jones Before She Was Famous (Remastered) (Repos Movie Scene) 

Leslie Jones (born September 7, 1967) is an American comedian and actress who is a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live. Jones has been a featured performer at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and the Aspen Comedy Festival. In 2010, her one-hour comedy special, Problem Child, was broadcast on Showtime.[1] Jones starred in Ghostbusters (2016) as Patty Tolan.

Leslie Jones was born on September 7, 1967 in Memphis, Tennessee.[1][2] Her father was in the United States Army and her family moved frequently.[3] Her family moved to Los Angeles, when her father took a job at Stevie Wonder's radio station, KJLH, as an electronics engineer. Jones attended high school in Lynwood, California, where she also played basketball; in May 2015, she stated on Late Night with Seth Meyers that her father suggested that she play the sport because she is six feet tall.[4]
Jones attended Chapman University on a basketball scholarship and transferred to Colorado State University when her coach left Chapman for Colorado State.[5][6] She intended to become a lawyer,[1] but changed her mind and changed her major a few times, including to business accounting and computer science and eventually ended up majoring in communications.[7] At Chapman, Jones became a radio DJ.[7] She was unsure of what she wanted to do, and contemplated the possibility of a career playing basketball overseas.[1]

Following the release of Ghostbusters, Jones became the target of numerous Twitter accounts making racially charged attacks. Twitter responded by taking action against several users, resulting in a lifetime ban of Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos[24] who was accused of orchestrating it.[25] After continuing to receive racial comments towards her, Jones announced that she would be leaving Twitter on July 18, 2016.[26] Jones appeared later in the week on Late Night with Seth Meyers, in which she described the ordeal and her meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Responding to Yiannopoulos's claim that he was targeted for being a "gay conservative", Jones stated, "Free speech and hate speech [are] two different things".[27]

Nearly a month later, Jones was again the subject of numerous online attacks. Her personal website was hacked, with its contents being replaced by photos of her driver's license and passport.[28] The site was also made to display alleged nude photographs of Jones, as well as a video tribute to Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla killed in May 2016 (a reference to the racially-charged gorilla remarks directed at Jones in the earlier attack). Jones' team took the website down shortly after it was hacked.[29]

Both incidents resulted in large outpourings of celebrity and fan support, via the hashtag "#LoveForLeslieJ", which trended on both Twitter and Instagram.[30] Questlove commented that what had happened to Jones qualified as "hate crimes".[31] Paul Feig,[32] Gabourey Sidibe, Ellen DeGeneres, Sara Benincasa, Ava DuVernay, Hillary Clinton, Corey Taylor,[33] Katy Perry, Octavia Spencer, Anna Kendrick, Lena Dunham[34] and Loni Love expressed solidarity with Jones. Jones responded to the hacks on the October 22, 2016 episode of Saturday Night Live.[35]

Year Film Title Role Notes
1998 Sploosh  Short film
1998 Does That Make Me a Bad Person? Marilyn Dukekne Short film
2000 A Feeling Called Glory Vapid Nurse Short film
2003 National Security Britney 
2003 A Guy Thing Sales Employee 
2006 Repos Lay La Credited as Annette Jones
2007 Gangsta Rap: The Glockumentary Mamma Rag 
2008 Internet Dating Too Sweett Jones 
2010 Something Like a Business Vanity 
2010 Lottery Ticket Tasha 
2010 The Company We Keep Beverly Blue 
2012 House Arrest Boss Lady 
2014 Top Five Lisa 
2015 We Are Family Leslie 
2015 Trainwreck Angry Subway Patron 
2016 Ghostbusters Patty Tolan 
2016 Sing Meena's mother Voice
2016 Masterminds FBI Special Agent Scanlon 
Television
Year Title Role Notes
2000 Mermaid Clerk Television film
2001 Dark Angel Waitress Episode: "Boo"
2002 The New Beachcombers Maud Wrecht Television film
2012 Daddy Knows Best Angry Woman Episode: "Taser"
2013 Sullivan & Son Bobbie Episode: "Acceptance"
2013 The League Stand Up Student Episode: "The Bringer Show"
2014–present Saturday Night Live Various Cast member and writer
Nominated – Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy/Variety Series (2015)
2014 Workaholics Lynette Episode: "The One Where the Guys Play Basketball and Do the Friends Title Thing"
2015 The Awesomes Silent But Deadly Voice, Episode: "The Final Showdown"
2016 The Blacklist Citizen Episode: "Lady Ambrosia"