Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress, and singer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released her debut album All Hail the Queen on November 28, 1989, featuring the hit single “Ladies First”. Nature of a Sista’ (1991) was her second and final album with Tommy Boy Records.
Latifah starred as Khadijah James on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998. Her third album, Black Reign (1993), became the first album by a solo female rapper to receive a RIAA certification, and spawned the single “U.N.I.T.Y.”, which was influential in raising awareness of violence against women and the objectification of Black female sexuality. The record won a Grammy Award and peaked at No. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. She then starred in the lead role of Set It Off (1996) and released her fourth album, Order in the Court, on June 16, 1998, with Motown Records. Latifah garnered acclaim with her role of Matron “Mama” Morton in the musical film Chicago (2002), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Latifah released her fifth album The Dana Owens Album in 2004. In 2007 and 2009, she released two more studio albums – Trav’lin’ Light and Persona. She created the daytime talk show The Queen Latifah Show, which ran from 1999 to 2001, and again from 2013 to 2015, in syndication. She has appeared 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 received critical acclaim for her portrayal of blues singer Bessie Smith in the HBO film Bessie (2015), which she co-produced, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. From 2016 to 2019, she starred as Carlotta Brown in the musical drama series Star. In 2020, she portrayed Hattie McDaniel in the miniseries Hollywood.
Queen Latifah has been referred to as the “Queen of Rap” by several media articles, as well as “rap’s first feminist”. Latifah became the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2006). Latifah’s work in music, film and television has earned her a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
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Queen Latifah Biography / Wiki
| Name | Queen Latifah |
| Also Know | Dana Owens, 퀸 ë¼í‹°íŒŒ, Κουίν Λατίφα, Dana Elaine Owens |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newark, New Jersey, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1970-03-18 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 52 |
| Deathday |
Queen Latifah Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Arctic Tale | Narrator | 2007-06-17 | Arctic Tale is a 2007 documentary film from the National Geographic Society about the life cycle of a walrus and her calf, and a polar bear and her cu… |
| Taxi | Isabelle ‘Belle’ Williams | 2004-10-06 | A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quart… |
| Beauty Shop | Gina Norris | 2005-04-22 | Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profe… |
| Just Wright | Leslie Wright | 2010-05-14 | A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury…. |
| Joyful Noise | Vi Rose Hill | 2012-01-13 | G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir’s newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group’s direction as they head into a national competition…. |
| Last Holiday | Georgia Byrd | 2006-01-13 | After she’s diagnosed with a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to take a European vacation…. |
| Life Support | Ana | 2007-03-10 | The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community…. |
| Steel Magnolias | M’Lynn | 2012-10-07 | In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, “Steel Magnolias” chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Loui… |
| Bessie | Bessie Smith | 2015-05-16 | The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and ’30s…. |
| Garrett’s Gift | 2008-02-01 | A young boy’s creative mind gets him into trouble, until he begins to apply that creativity to life-changing inventions, including the traffic signal…. | |
| Flint | Iza Banks | 2017-10-28 | A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family…. |
| Mama Africa | Host | 2002-06-07 | In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called t… |
| End of the Road | Brenda | 2022-09-09 | Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger…. |
| Joyful Noise | Vi Rose Hill | 2012-01-13 | … |
| Bringing Down the House | Charlene Morton | 2003-03-07 | When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak h… |
| Mad Money | Nina Brewster | 2008-01-17 | Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed…. |
| Set It Off | Cleo | 1996-11-06 | Four black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a … |
| The Secret Life of Bees | August Boatwright | 2008-09-17 | Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely… |
| House of Bodies | Nicole | 2013-04-19 | While indulging his appetite for the grim and gruesome by patronizing a voyeuristic Web site that’s based in a house where a serial killer once lived,… |
| Girls Trip | Sasha Franklin | 2017-07-21 | Four girlfriends take a trip to New Orleans for an annual festival and, along the way, rediscover their wild sides and strengthen the bonds of sisterh… |
| Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O’Neal | herself / host | 2002-01-29 | The Shaquille O’Neal Celebrity Roast is a unique urban comedy special that combines the world of sports and entertainment. In an unconventional format… |
| Hustle | Teresa Sugerman | 2022-06-03 | After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom … |
| The Bone Collector | Thelma | 1999-11-04 | Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department’s top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of … |
| Living Out Loud | Liz Bailey | 1998-10-30 | Judith Moore is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor, has been having an affair with a younger woman. J… |
| The Wiz Live! | The Wiz | 2015-12-03 | Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Wiz was a massive Broadway hit which spawned a dismal feature film starring Diana Ross and Michae… |
| King of the South | Upcoming biopic of Master P, the hip-hop mogul, CEO, and founder of No Limit Records…. | ||
| The Tiger Rising | Willie May | 2022-01-21 | When 12-year-old Rob Horton discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home, his imagination runs wild and life begins to change in the most unexpe… |
| Ice Age: The Meltdown | Ellie (voice) | 2006-03-29 | Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is … |
| Chicago | Matron Mama Morton | 2002-12-10 | Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chic… |
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Ellie (voice) | 2009-06-26 | Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes whe… |
| My Life | Theresa | 1993-11-12 | It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob’s life is turned upside… |
| Brown Sugar | Francine | 2002-10-05 | Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory…. |
| Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas | Ellie (voice) | 2011-11-24 | When Sid accidentally destroys Manny’s heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa’s naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to ma… |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | Ellie (voice) | 2016-06-23 | Set after the events of Continental Drift, Scrat’s epic pursuit of his elusive acorn catapults him outside of Earth, where he accidentally sets off a … |
| The Little Mermaid Live! | Ursula | 2019-11-05 | Live musical performances by a star-studded cast will be interwoven into the broadcast of the animated classic…. |
| Stranger Than Fiction | Penny Escher | 2006-09-09 | Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life…. |
| The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz | Aunt Em | 2005-05-20 | The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz follows a young woman named Dorothy Gale who dreams of becoming a singer but is unable to pursue her dreams. After being swe… |
| The Dilemma | Dana | 2011-01-13 | Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really lau… |
| House Party 2 | Zora | 1991-10-23 | Kid’N’Play leave their neighborhood and enter the world of adulthood and higher education. Play attempts to get rich quick in the music business while… |
| Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade | Ellie (voice) | 2016-03-19 | A harried prehistoric bird mother entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbours, business booms at his ne… |
| Tony Bennett: Duets II – The Great Performances | 2012-03-06 | Bennett again recorded his greatest hits with a celebrated list of artists and Duets II made music history by debuting top of the Billboard chart. Du… | |
| Sphere | Alice ‘Teeny’ Fletcher | 1998-02-13 | A spacecraft is discovered on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists an… |
| Juice | Ruffhouse M.C. | 1992-01-17 | Four Harlem friends — Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem — dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, th… |
| Ice Age: Continental Drift | Ellie (voice) | 2012-06-27 | Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and … |
| Teach | Self | 2013-09-06 | Explores America’s education system through the eyes, minds and hearts of its most essential resource, teachers…. |
| Hairspray | Motormouth Maybelle | 2007-07-19 | Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad auditions to be on Baltimore’s most popular dance show – The Corny Collins Show – and lands a prime spot. Thr… |
| Barbershop 2: Back in Business | Gina | 2004-01-20 | The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin’s Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his business… |
| The Trap | Dr. Obayuwana | 2019-04-01 | A man returns home to Atlanta to help and turn around his family’s struggling restaurant with the help of a new chicken recipe…. |
| Miracles from Heaven | Angela Bradford | 2016-03-17 | When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as s… |
| The Making of the Wiz Live! | Herself | 2015-11-25 | Go behind the curtain in The Land of Oz with NBC’s “The Making of The Wiz Live!” The hour-long special will give an exclusive backstage look at this h… |
| The Cookout | Security Guard | 2004-09-03 | When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep thing… |
| We Are One With President-Elect Barack Obama | Self | 2009-01-18 | A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the Nationa… |
| Talking to Heaven | Midge Harmon | 2002-04-28 | A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how… |
| Hoodlum | Sulie | 1997-08-27 | In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running ‘the numbers’. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Har… |
| What Happens in Vegas | Dr. Twitchell | 2008-05-07 | During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other … |
| You’re Watching Video Music Box | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-03 | The untold story of the world’s longest running video show, Video Music Box. A hip hop mainstay since 1983, VMB gave a platform to artists like Jay-… |
| Scary Movie 3 | Aunt Shaneequa / The Oracle | 2003-10-24 | In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, news anchorwoman Cindy Campbell has to investigate mysterious crop circles and killing video ta… |
| Who’s the Man? | Herself | 1993-04-23 | Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as fa… |
| Michael Jackson Memorial | Herself | 2009-07-07 | A live telecast of the public memorial service for the king of pop, Michael Jackson…. |
| Bringing Out the Dead | Dispatcher Love (Voice) | 1999-10-22 | Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything … |
| The Country Bears | Cha-Cha | 2002-07-26 | For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears’ young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Cou… |
| Valentine’s Day | Paula Thomas | 2010-02-10 | More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine’s Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputt… |
| The Perfect Holiday | Mrs. Christmas | 2007-12-12 | Laughter, love and just a hint of magic make for THE PERFECT HOLIDAY, a fun-filled comedy romance starring Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Charlie M… |
| The Earth Day Special | Herself | 1990-04-22 | The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour s… |
| 22 Jump Street | Mrs. Dickson (uncredited) | 2014-06-05 | After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local co… |
| Jungle Fever | Lashawn | 1991-06-07 | A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference wo… |
| And the Winner Isn’t | Self | 2017-12-08 | A satirical documentary charting Geoffrey Moore and his daughter Ambra’s journey through Hollywood, as the pair track down celebrities and industry … |
| 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | 2021-11-20 | Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner, Carol… | |
Queen Latifah Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Bringing Down the House | Executive Producer | 2003-03-07 | When a lonely guy meets a woman on the internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to get him to prove her innocence, and proceeds to wreak h… |
| Brotherly Love | Executive Producer | 2015-04-24 | West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition…. |
| Just Wright | Producer | 2010-05-14 | A physical therapist falls for the basketball player she is helping recover from a career-threatening injury…. |
| Joyful Noise | Executive Producer | 2012-01-13 | G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir’s newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group’s direction as they head into a national competition…. |
| The Secrets of Emily Blair | Executive Producer | 2016-10-01 | Desperate to save his fiancée from a demon that has possessed her soul, a man turns to his longtime priest for help…. |
| Percentage | Executive Producer | 2013-04-24 | After a drug deal gone wrong, two New York City hustlers relocate to Miami, where they set up a lucrative credit card fraud operation. Unfortunately, … |
| Who’s Your Caddy? | Executive Producer | 2007-07-27 | Superstar rap mogul C-Note wants to join the Carolina Pines Golf & Country Club, but faces stiff opposition from the establishment’s snooty members. C… |
| Romeo and Juliet | Producer | A contemporary musical take on William Shakespeare’s tragedy set against the urban rhythms of New York. The love story follows a young waitress from t… | |
| Dear Mama: A Love Letter to Mom | Executive Producer | 2019-05-06 | VH1’s annual Mother’s Day celebration salutes moms everywhere. Anthony Anderson and La La Anthony hosted the event, which included performances by Ash… |
| End of the Road | Producer | 2022-09-09 | Recently widowed mom Brenda fights to protect her family during a harrowing road trip when a murder and a missing bag of cash plunge them into danger…. |
| Beauty Shop | Producer | 2005-04-22 | Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profe… |
| The Cookout | Producer | 2004-09-03 | When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep thing… |
| The Tiger Rising | Executive Producer | 2022-01-21 | When 12-year-old Rob Horton discovers a caged tiger in the woods near his home, his imagination runs wild and life begins to change in the most unexpe… |
| Bessie | Executive Producer | 2015-05-16 | The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and ’30s…. |
| House of Bodies | Executive Producer | 2013-04-19 | While indulging his appetite for the grim and gruesome by patronizing a voyeuristic Web site that’s based in a house where a serial killer once lived,… |
| Producer | The Queen Latifah Show is an American talk-variety series hosted by Queen Latifah that premiered on September 16, 2013. Previously, a talk show with t… | ||
| Producer | Single Ladies is an American comedy-drama television series on VH1 that debuted on May 30, 2011, as a two-hour television film. Created by Stacy A. Li… | ||
| Producer | Let’s Stay Together is an American romantic comedy television series created by Jacque Edmonds Cofer. It premiered on BET on January 11, 2011. The tit… | ||
| Executive Producer | What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Cookout | Story | 2004-09-03 | When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep thing… |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Taxi | Music Consultant | 2004-10-06 | A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver has hot tips for a green and inept cop set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies committed by a quart… |
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