Chenoa Maxwell

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Chenoa Maxwell (b. 16 November 1969) is an American actress and photographer. She is best known for her starring role in the 1997 romantic comedy Hav Plenty and as the recurring character Lena Turner on the hit UPN sitcom Girlfriends. Ms. Maxwell has also appeared in the WB sitcom, For Your Love. She was the leading lady in R&B singer Joe's video, What if a Woman. She also had a cameo in the infomercial for Yoga Booty Ballet.

Chenoa Maxwell

“From the Silver Screen to Behind the Lens”

Chenoa Maxwell is best described as a modern day renaissance woman, gracefully balancing her roles as actor, producer, photographer and entrepreneur.

Born in New York, Maxwell has enraptured film, television & theatre audiences around the world with her striking combination of beauty, strength and natural talent. Most recently, she played the lead female alongside Blair Underwood and Richard T. Jones in the 2005 summer blockbuster G, a modern retelling of The Great Gatsby for which she received critical acclaim. Maxwell is, perhaps best known for her breakout role as the title character in Miramax’s feature Hav Plenty, produced by Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds.

Maxwell began her career off-Broadway as the lead in Back To Black Woman and has continued to establish herself as a true leading lady in the world of independent urban cinema with roles in Sacred starring Nas and Isaiah Washington, Doing Hard Time with Boris Kodjoe, Cold Feet and Malfunction, for which she won Best Actress for the Polo/Ralph Lauren Viewer’s Choice Awards. Since then, she has appeared on numerous television shows, landing guest starring roles in WB’s For your Love and reoccurring as “Lena on UPN’s hit show, Girlfriends.

Industry insiders also know Maxwell as the co-founder of Big Baby Films, a fully integrated music video and film production company. In 1999, she served as co-producer to the independent feature, Box Marley, starring Hill Harper, Tom Arnold and Tommy Davidson.

As an emerging photographer is where Maxwell has found her truest passion and has spent the last three years living between NYC and London with her husband traveling extensively and documenting world issues. However, it was her recent trip to Uganda that inspired her latest documentary works, which is also the topic of her first solo photography show scheduled for Spring 2007. Maxwell’s works have been exhibited in the Hampton’s Art Meets Architecture Open House Exhibit and the infamous Soho Photo Gallery in New York City.