Sharon M. Lewis is a Canadian television personality and film director from Toronto, Ontario.

[2] She began her career on counterSpin with a special on the September 11 attacks.

[3] Lewis subsequently established the company urbansoul inc., which promotes the art of minority women.

[4] During her acting career, she appeared on Degrassi: The Next Generation as the mother of Jimmy Brooks, who was played by rapper Drake.

In 2017, Lewis directed her Afro-futurist feature film Brown Girl Begins, a feature film prequel to the celebrated novel Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson.