
Dana Elaine Owens was born on March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey. Better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, she is a rapper, actress and singer. Queen Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination. From 1993-1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single. She began her film career in supporting roles in the 1991 and 1992 films House Party 2, Juice and Jungle Fever. Later, Latifah appeared in the 1996 box-office hit, Set It Off and subsequently had a supporting role in the Holly Hunter film Living Out Loud (1998). She also played the role of Thelma in the 1999 movie The Bone Collector, alongside Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Although she had already received some critical acclaim, she gained mainstream success after being cast as Matron "Mama" Morton in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of the musical Chicago (2002). Latifah received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Since then, she has starred in a number of popular films including; Bringing Down the House, with Steve Martin, Taxi, Beauty Shop, Hairspray and Last Holiday. In 2007, she produced the film The Perfect Holiday starring Morris Chestnut and Gabrielle Union. Her most recent films include; Just Wright (2010), The Dilemma (2011) and she is set to reprise her role in the next installment of the animated film, Ice Age.
Movie | Girls Trip | Sasha Franklin | 2017-07-21 |
tv | Star | Carlotta Brown | 2016-12-14 |
Movie | Ice Age: Collision Course | Ellie (voice) | 2016-06-23 |
Movie | Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade | Ellie (voice) | 2016-03-20 |
Movie | Miracles from Heaven | Angela | 2016-03-17 |
Movie | The Wiz Live! | The Wiz | 2015-12-03 |
Movie | Bessie | Bessie Smith | 2015-05-16 |
tv | Lip Sync Battle | Herself | 2015-04-02 |
Movie | 22 Jump Street | Mrs. Dickinson | 2014-06-05 |
Movie | House of Bodies | Nicole | 2013-04-19 |
Movie | Steel Magnolias | M'Lynn | 2012-10-07 |
Movie | Ice Age: Continental Drift | Ellie (voice) | 2012-06-26 |
Movie | Joyful Noise | Vi Rose Hill | 2012-01-13 |
Movie | The Dilemma | Dana | 2011-01-13 |
Movie | Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas | Ellie (voice) | 2011-11-24 |
Movie | Just Wright | Leslie Wright | 2010-05-14 |
Movie | Valentine's Day | Paula Thomas | 2010-02-10 |
Movie | Michael Jackson Memorial | Herself | 2009-07-07 |
Movie | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Ellie (voice) | 2009-06-29 |
Movie | The Secret Life of Bees | August Boatwright | 2008-09-17 |
Movie | What Happens in Vegas | Dr. Twitchell | 2008-05-07 |
Movie | Mad Money | Nina Brewster | 2008-01-17 |
Movie | The Perfect Holiday | Mrs. Christmas | 2007-12-12 |
Movie | Hairspray | Motormouth Maybelle | 2007-07-13 |
Movie | Arctic Tale | Narrator | 2007-06-17 |
Movie | Life Support | Ana | 2007-03-10 |
Movie | Ice Age: The Meltdown | Ellie (voice) | 2006-03-23 |
Movie | Last Holiday | Georgia Byrd | 2006-01-13 |
tv | 30 Rock | Unknown | 2006-10-11 |
Movie | Stranger Than Fiction | Penny Escher | 2006-09-09 |
tv | VH1 Rock Honors | Unknown | 2006-05-31 |
tv | The Tyra Banks Show | Unknown | 2005-09-12 |
tv | Hogan Knows Best | Unknown | 2005-07-10 |
Movie | Beauty Shop | Gina Norris | 2005-06-02 |
Movie | The Muppets' Wizard of Oz | Aunt Em | 2005-05-20 |
Movie | Taxi | Isabelle 'Belle' Williams | 2004-10-06 |
Movie | Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Gina | 2004-01-20 |
Movie | Scary Movie 3 | Aunt Shaneequa/The Oracle | 2003-10-24 |
tv | I Love the '80s Strikes Back | 2003-10-21 | |
tv | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Unknown | 2003-09-08 |
Movie | Bringing Down the House | Charlene Morton | 2003-03-07 |
tv | American Idol | Unknown | 2002-06-11 |
Movie | Talking to Heaven | Midge Harmon | 2002-04-28 |
Movie | Chicago | Matron Mama Morton | 2002-12-26 |
Movie | The Country Bears | Cha-Cha | 2002-07-26 |
Movie | Brown Sugar | fracine | 2002-10-05 |
Movie | The Bone Collector | Thelma | 1999-11-04 |
tv | The Early Show | Unknown | 1999-11-01 |
Movie | Bringing Out the Dead | Dispatcher Love (Voice) | 1999-10-22 |
Movie | Hoodlum | Sulie | 1997-08-27 |
tv | Living Single | 1993-08-22 | |
Movie | Who's the Man? | Herself | 1993-04-23 |
Movie | House Party 2 | Zora | 1991-10-23 |