American actress and musician, Dana Elaine Owens, widely known as Queen Latifah was born on March 18th, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey in the United States of America.
Latifah was born to Lancelot Amos Owens and Rita Lamae Bray. She shares the same parents with her older brother, Lancelot Owens Jr.
Latifah was brought up as a Baptist. She graduated from Irvington High School while attending Catholic schools in Newark, New Jersey, including Essex Catholic Girls’ High School there.
Queen Latifah attended classes at Borough of Manhattan Community College after graduating from high school. When she was eight years old, she discovered her stage name, Latifah, which is Arabic for “delicate” and “extremely kind.”
Latifah, who has always been big at 5-foot-10 inches (1.78 m), played power forward for her high school’s basketball team. In a production for the grammar school, she sang the song “Home” from the musical The Wiz.
Queen Latifah nationality
Latifah was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States of America.
Queen Latifah age
Latifah was born on March 18th, 1970, hence she is currently 52 years of age.
Queen Latifah net worth
Latifah has a net worth estimated to be about $70 million.
Queen Latifah education
Latifah attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey and Essex Catholic Girls’ High School in Irvington, but graduated from Irvington High School. After high school, Queen Latifah attended classes at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Queen Latifah career
Latifah, who was 19 at the time, released her debut album All Hail the Queen in 1989, which featured the smash hit “Ladies First.”
Latifah is well known for her work in music, cinema, and television. She has won a number of awards, including a Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, three Screen Actors Guild, two NAACP Image, and a nomination for an Academy Award.
She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006, m aking history as the first hip-hop artist to do so. Tommy Boy Records produced her 1991 album Nature of a Sista.
The single “U.N.I.T.Y.” from her third album, Black Reign (1993), had a significant impact on bringing attention to violence against women and the objectification of Black female sexuality. It was the first solo female rapper’s album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
The song earned a Grammy Award and debuted in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. She later played the lead in Set It Off (1996), and on June 16, 1998, Motown Records published her fourth album, Order in the Court. The Dana Owens Album, Latifah’s fifth album, was released in 2004.
She issued Trav’lin’ Light and Persona, two additional studio albums, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. From 1993 through 1998, Latifah played Khadijah James in the Fox sitcom Living Single.
She was the creator of the daytime chat show The Queen Latifah Show, which was shown in syndication from 1999 to 2001 and again from 2013 to 2015.
With her performance as Matron “Mama” Morton in the musical movie Chicago (2002), Latifah won praise and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
She has starred or co-starred in a number of films, such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Taxi (2004), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2005), Beauty Shop (2005), Last Holiday (2006), Hairspray (2007), Joyful Noise (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014) and Girls Trip (2017) and provided voice work in the Ice Age film series.
Latifah won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for her depiction of blues artist Bessie Smith in the 2015 HBO film Bessie, which she also co-produced.
She played Carlotta Brown in the musical drama series Star from 2016 to 2019. She played Hattie McDaniel in the Hollywood miniseries in 2020. She has played the title role in CBS’ relaunch of the action drama The since 2021.
Queen Latifah family and siblings
Latifah was born to Lancelot Amos Owens and Rita Lamae Bray. She shares the same parents with her older brother, Lancelot Owens Jr.
Queen Latifah husband
Latifah’s partner is Eboni Nichols
Queen Latifah children
Latifah has a son named Rebel.
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