Andrea Lewis is a Toronto born Actor, Singer and Songwriter.
She has literally grown up in the entertainment industry acting in commercials from a baby and on to film and television.
Andrea currently plays "Hazel" on the hit TV series Degrassi:The Next Generation. Andrea continues to develop her musical talents and has
amazed everyone with her powerful and soulful vocals. Penning her own lyrics since age 12, Andrea co-wrote her entire album
due out this year, in collaboration with renowned producer Justin Gray.
Andrea has fashioned a career not only out of her chameleon
like acting abilities-which have landed her movie roles alongside Hollywood legend Diahann Carroll and teen sensation Hilary
Duff, but also out of her sexy, sultry voice reminiscent of Aaliyah but brimming with soul a la Aretha Franklin. Where does
this 19-year-old get her old soul? Mostly from her dad, who exposed her to Otis Redding, Gladys Knight, Curtis Mayfield and
The Supremes at a very young age. While other eight-year-olds in talent competitions trotted out songs from The Little Mermaid,
Andrea belted out Whitney Houston ballads.
But before Degrassi, Andrea landed some coveted movie
roles. In 1998 she co-starred with Alfre Woodard and Wesley Snipes in the critically acclaimed movie Down in the Delta, directed
by world-renowned poet Maya Angelou. In 1999 she played music student Autumn in A Holiday Romance with Naomi Judd. A year
later she appeared as a teenage Natalie Cole in The Natalie Cole Story with one of her idols, Diahann Carroll, and in 2002
she befriended Hilary Duff-on and off the set-as the know-it-all, tells-it-like-it-is street kid Carla in Cadet Kelly.
The ambitious teenager is now writing scripts for TV
movies and hopes to start her own fashion line someday. Andrea also tries to give back to the community, whether it's participating
in UNICEF campaigns, playing with kids from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children or hanging out with underprivileged youth.
