JoNell Kennedy

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"Una Great Movie" theatrical trailer. As a screenwriter tries to sell her movie to Hollywood executives, her script slowly transforms from a beautiful movie about a black woman traveling in Mexico, to an all white romantic comedy. The absurd reality of chasing a dream.

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Una Great Movie (2022)

JoNell Kennedy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her father is a retired government employee (of the federal Department of Labor) and her mother was a vocalist with the 1960s pop music girl group The Dixie Cups. She is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in University Park, Texas, where she majored in theatre.

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Dreamgirls

6.6

Joann

2006

Guess Who

5.9

Winnie(as Jonell Kennedy)

2005

Collateral

7.5

Waitress(as Jonell Kennedy)

2004

Me and You and Everyone We Know

7.2

2005

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Actress

Red for Revolution
9.6
Podcast Series
- News Reporter (voice)
- 2025
Chicago Med
7.6
TV Series
- Sheryl Russell
- 2024
Fright Krewe
7.4
TV Series
- Marie Laveau (voice)
- 2023
The Rookie: Feds
5.4
TV Series
- Renee
- 2022
From Scratch
7.9
TV Mini Series
- Barbara
- 2022
The Ms. Pat Show
8.3
TV Series
- Cheryl
- 2021–2022
Una Great Movie
5.4
- Zoe
- 2022
9-1-1
7.9
TV Series
- Dr. Thompson
- 2022
Grey's Anatomy
7.6
TV Series
- Duda Kyat
- 2022
FBI
7.1
TV Series
- Ann Tasker
- 2022
All Things Undone
Podcast Series
- Tilly (voice)
- 2020–2021
Theater aLIVE
Podcast Series
- 2021
Nocturne
5.7
- Gordon
- 2020
NCIS: Los Angeles
6.8
TV Series
- Navy Commander Susan Yelton
- 2016–2019
Bolden
5.6
- Ida Bass
- 2019

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Alternative names
- Jo Nell Kennedy
Height
- 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
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Stage: Appeared in the revue, "Spunk-Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston," at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, IL, with Shari A. Seals and Ellis Foster also in the cast. The director was Donald Douglass. NOTE: She received the 1992 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Revue.