Is Jennifer Holliday a lesbian?
David Schmidt
Updated on February 21, 2026
Jennifer Yvette Holliday is an American actress and singer. Jennifer started her career on Broadway in musicals such as Dreamgirls (1981–83), and Your Arms Too Short to Box with God (1980–1981) and later became a successful recording artist.
Jennifer is best known for her debut single, the Dreamgirls number, and rhythm-and-blues/pop hit, “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going”, for which she won a Grammy in 1983. She also won a 1982 Tony Award for Dreamgirls.
Is Jennifer Holliday a lesbian?
The American actress and singer are not a lesbian, Holliday has been married twice. In March 1991, just two months after she met keyboardist Billy Meadows in a nightclub where she was singing, they married.
“He had a great sense of humor and he made me laugh all the time,” Holliday says of her first husband. “I had been feeling bad for so long, I wanted to laugh.” But in December 1991, just nine months later, they divorced; the marriage, according to Holliday, “ran out of steam.
Jennifer’s second marriage, which began on March 21, 1993, and ended in 1994, was to Rev. Andre Woods, a minister in Detroit.
The jet magazine covered the marriage in their April 19, 1993 issue. Though Woods was a charismatic Detroit preacher, she subsequently said that even so, he was a player who also ran through her money. Still, Holliday was devastated when, in 1994, that marriage, too, ended.