Ms. Jeannette’s film cred­its in­clude: “Cry for the City”, “Noth­ing but a Man”, “Shaft”, “The Leg­end of Nig­ger Char­lie”, “Cot­ton Comes to Harlem”, “Black Girl”, and sev­eral doc­u­men­taries and short films. In ad­di­tion, Ms. Jean­nette is a play­wright and di­rec­tor and has writ­ten such plays as: This Way For­ward, A Bolt from the Blue, Light in the Cel­lar, Who’s Mama’s Baby, Who’s Daddy’s Child, Gladys’ Dilemma, and has di­rected the works of many play­wrights both pub­lished and un­pub­lished. Her Off-​​Broadway/​Repertory Na­tional and In­ter­na­tional roles are too many to men­tion here.

Ms. “J” or Ms. “G” as she is en­dear­ingly called, re­ceived the Out­stand­ing Pi­o­neer Award From AUDELCO in 1984, and the AT&T and Black Amer­i­can Newspaper’s 1987 Per­son­al­ity of the Year Award. She is the re­cip­i­ent of the 1992 Harlem Busi­ness Recog­ni­tion Award from the Na­tional Coun­cil of Ne­gro Women, Man­hat­tan Sec­tion, on May 11, 1991, and she was also hon­ored at the Na­tional Black The­atre Fes­ti­val in Winston-​​Salem, North Car­olina in Au­gust 1991 as a Liv­ing Legend.

She was in­ducted into the Hatch-​​Billops Oral His­tory Col­lec­tion at the Schom­burg Cen­ter for Re­search in Black Cul­ture. She re­ceived the 1998 Li­onel Hamp­ton Legacy Award; plus the Stand­ing on Our Shoul­ders Award from the Delta Sigma Theta, Bronx Chap­ter, for her out­stand­ing work in the com­mu­nity; and was in­ducted into the Bush­fire The­atre Walk of Fame in Philadel­phia Penn­syl­va­nia. She re­ceived the 2004 Giv­ing Back Award, from The Giv­ing Back Cor­po­ra­tion, fol­lowed by the River­side Club/​National Ne­gro Busi­ness and Pro­fes­sional Women’s 2006 Pro­fes­sional Award.

Per­haps most out­stand­ing was the state in which Ms. Jean­nette was born and raised be­stowed upon her the honor of be­ing in­ducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame on Oc­to­ber 16, 1999. Her por­trait hangs in the halls next to pre­vi­ous hon­orees such as Maya An­gelou, John H. John­son, Daisy Bates, and Ernest Green to name a few. Pres­i­dent Bill Clin­ton was also in­ducted in the Black Hall of Fame in 2000.

On Oc­to­ber, 4^th 2002, she re­ceived the pres­ti­gious Paul Robe­son Award from the Actor’s Eq­uity As­so­ci­a­tion. In Feb­ru­ary 2003 Ms. Jean­nette was amongst thirty in­di­vid­u­als hon­ored in the Harlem is…Living His­tory of Harlem ex­hibit, a pub­lic art and ed­u­ca­tion project of Com­mu­nity Works. This mul­ti­me­dia, in­ter­gen­er­a­tional, liv­ing his­tory pro­gram cel­e­brates thirty Harlemites (ages 50 – 100) whose con­tri­bu­tions to the fields of art, mu­sic, ed­u­ca­tion, pol­i­tics, com­mu­nity ser­vice and sports de­fine Harlem’s rich and di­verse cul­tural legacy.  Ms. Jean­nette was also hon­ored with the New Hope SDA (Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist) Church Women’s Min­istry Award in De­cem­ber 2003.

Of all her ac­com­plish­ments and all the recog­ni­tions that have been be­stowed on her, Ms. Jean­nette is most proud of the work she has done in and around the Harlem community.