Name: Spike Lee
Variant Name: Sheldon Jackson Lee
Birth Date: March 20, 1957
Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: filmmaker, actor, author/poet

Controversial filmmaker Spike Lee (born ca. 1957) is known for powerful films such as She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do The Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Malcolm X (1992), and many others. Lee's 1994 film Crooklyn was a loosely structured story of a jazz musician, his wife and their children in Brooklyn of the 70s while Clockers focussed on crack dealers in Jersey City. Recent work has included Summer of Sam, Bamboozled and he is working on 25th Hour with Ed Norton and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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