Lena Waithe

Lena Waithe is an American actress, voice actress, producer, and screenwriter, known for creating the Showtime drama series and the BET comedy shows and . She is best known as the actress and writer of the Netflix comedy-drama series , which led her to become the first African-American woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017. She also appears in the 2018 science fiction adventure film , by Steven Spielberg.
For Disney, she voiced Specter in the 2020 Disney/Pixar film Onward, which is the first animated film in Disney media that features an LGBTQ character, as Waithe herself is to be openly lesbian in real life. She also provides a special guest voice as college Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins in the 2022 animated reboot The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder on Disney+. 
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Specter.png|Specter(Onward)
The Proud Family- Louder & Prouder Maya.jpeg|Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins(The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder)
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Category:1980s births
Category:Females
Category:African American people
Category:Actresses
Category:Screenwriters
Category:Producers
Category:People from Illinois
Category:Pixar actors and actresses
Category:Onward
Category:The Proud Family
Category:Disney+
Category:Pixar
Category:Voice actresses
Category:American people
Category:LGBTQ+ people