along with Vanessa Bell Calloway, Tatyana Ali & Freda Payne. As of 2015, Lewis is playing a recurring role on Major Crimes as Patrice, a love interest for Lt. Provenza, whom he met during a case. In that same year, she also voiced Ruby's mother Helen Hanshaw in one episode of Sofia The First. In March 2016, Lewis was cast in Disney Junior's animated series Doc McStuffins as the voice of Grandma McStuffins. In 2017 she provided the voice of Maybelle Mundy in the film Bunyan and Babe. In 2018 she began voicing Fannie Granger on DreamWorks's Spirit Riding Free and Dr. Jones in Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, while in 2019 began voicing The Chief on Netflix's animated Carmen Sandiego. She voiced Attorney General's special agent Lenora Carter in The Simpsons episode "The Fat Blue Line" in 2019, and became the voice of Bernice Hibbert starting with "Uncut Femmes" in 2021. On November 7, 2019, Lewis began portraying Zelma, Tina Turner's mother in Tina on Broadway and working under the name "Dr. Dawnn Lewis." From August 2020 she stars as the voice of Captain Carol Freeman in the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks. From 2021 to 2022, Lewis voiced Ms. Jackie Washington, the Neighborhood Council President of Hansberry Heights, in the animated series Karma's World. Lewis is an honorary member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. Filmography Film Television Video games Album appearances Vanessa Williams – The Right Stuff, on the song "If You Really Love Him" Take 6 – So Much 2 Say, on the interlude "That's The Law" D-Nice – Call Me D-Nice, on the song "It's Over" References External links "Different World" Star Dawnn Lewis to Get Into the Habit for Sister Act The Musical Playbill. Retrieved 2006-09-24 1961 births Living people Actresses from New York City African-American actresses American film actresses American people of Guyanese descent American television actresses American video game actresses American voice actresses People from Brooklyn The High School of Music & Art alumni University of Miami Frost School of Music alumni 20th-century American actresses 21st-century American actresses 20th-century African-American women 20th-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American people