Who is Spike Lee’s wife Tonya Lewis Lee? The ex-lawyer married the director a year after meeting him and adapted his film She’s Gotta Have It into a Netflix show – now she’s an entertainment exec

Apple TV+ is on a roll. After the explosive premiere of Seth Rogen’s The Studio, which features cameos from the likes of Martin Scorsese and Charlize Theron, the streaming giant released the highly anticipated documentary Number One on the Call Sheet. The two-part series celebrates the legacy and continued success of Black actors in Hollywood.

The show stars icons like Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Viola Davis and Eddie Murphy, who recount their journeys in Hollywood and share interesting anecdotes via interviews. Murphy reveals that when he told Sidney Poitier he’d been offered the role of Alex Haley in the 1992 film Malcolm X, the legendary actor and film director told him, “You are not Denzel, and you are not Morgan. You are a breath of fresh air, and don’t f*** with that!” – meaning that he should not take up the role. The comedian and star of Beverly Hills Cop (1984) admitted he “didn’t know if it was an insult or a compliment”. Ultimately, Malcolm X director Spike Lee excluded Haley’s character after taking over from Norman Jewison.

Lee’s latest film is the neo-noir crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest (2025), starring Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky, and adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963). Amid the headlines about his work, Lee’s personal life is also drawing interest.

Lewis Lee always wanted to go into the entertainment industry, but after graduating from law school in 1991, she moved to Washington to work as a lawyer, per People magazine. In 1992 she attended the Congressional Black Caucus dinner, where she met Spike Lee. They were dating by the end of the year, and when they got married in New York in 1993, Stevie Wonder performed at the wedding. The couple share two children – daughter Satchel, 30, and son Jackson, 28 – who are also in the entertainment industry.