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Chrishaunda Lee

American actress

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5108580
Source-derived summary

Chrishaunda Lee Perez is a writer and film producer known for her work as co-writer and co-producer of the short film, The Forever Tree. She also wrote the book Share The Dream: Building Noah's Ark One Prayer at a Time.

Career

Lee Perez earned her start in entertainment first serving as a publicist. She then worked in front of the camera corresponding on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2004, and later on Entertainment Tonight in 2005. A long-time animal advocate, Chrishaunda co-hosted the show, Animal Attractions for PBS in 2007.

More recently, Lee Perez released her first novel, We Come as Girls, We Leave as Women, about high school senior girls overcoming personal challenges as they head towards graduation.

Personal life and education

Lee Perez is a graduate of Wesleyan University. A niece of the billionaire Oprah Winfrey, she also graduated from Miss Porter's School. As a result of the changes that Winfrey saw in her niece after she attended the school, she created five permanent scholarships there.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chrishaunda Lee” as american actress. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 2005, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Chrishaunda, American and actress can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american actress. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5108580. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004, 2005 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Chrishaunda Lee” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.