Jemele Hill
Born: 1975-12-21 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
Jemele Juanita Hill (/dʒəˈmɛl/ jə-MEL; born December 21, 1975) is an American sports journalist, TV personality, and author. She worked for the Raleigh News & Observer, the Detroit Free Press, and the Orlando Sentinel. She joined ESPN in 2006 and worked in various roles until 2013, when she succeeded Jalen Rose as host of ESPN2's Numbers Never Lie. The show was rebranded to His & Hers which she co-hosted with Michael Smith. Hill and Smith co-hosted SC6, the 6 p.m. (ET) edition of ESPN's flagship SportsCenter from 2017 to 2018. In 2017, she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding News Special for the ABC News Special The President and The People. In she left her role as co-host of SC6 and joined the ESPN website, The Undefeated. She left ESPN shortly afterward to work as a contributing writer for The Atlantic. From August 2020 to February 2021, she co-hosted Vice's Cari & Jemele (Won't) Stick to Sports alongside Cari Champion. She is the co-founder of the film and production company Lodge Freeway Media and published her autobiography Uphill: A Memoir in 2022. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filmography
2025
- Untold: The Fall of Favre as Self - Sports Journalist
- Hoops, Hopes & Dreams
2024
- Simone Biles Rising ... (Producer)
- Black Twitter: A People's History as Self - Writer & Journalist
- Power of the Dream as Self
- Above the Fold with Jemele Hill as Self - Host
- Memes & Nightmares as Self
2023
- The Crossover: 50 Years of Hip Hop and Sports as Self
- Bye Bye Barry as Self
2022
- Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL as Self - Sports Journalist (archive footage)
2021
- National Champions as Jemele Hill
- Level Playing Field as Self
2020
- Power Book II: Ghost as Jemele Hill
- Vice Versa as Self
- With Drawn Arms as Self
- One Man and His Shoes as Self
2019
- Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
- A Black Lady Sketch Show as Product Purger
2018
- The Shop as Self
- Shut Up and Dribble as Narrator (voice)
2016
- Marvel's Luke Cage as Jemele Hill
- VICE News Tonight as Self
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest