Queen Latifah
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Queen Latifah, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
155 acting credits
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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
Saturday Night Live
1975
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
30 Rock
2006
The View
1997
Entourage
2004
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hot Ones
2015
American Idol
2002
The Fairly OddParents
2001
Hollywood Squares
1998
Empire
2015
Sherri
2022
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Spin City
1996
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
MTV Video Music Awards
1984
America's Next Top Model
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Equalizer
2021
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Hot in Cleveland
2010
Ellen
1994
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Intimate Portrait
1993
Finding Your Roots
2012
The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
People's Choice Awards
1975
The Reichen Show
2005
Lip Sync Battle
2015
The Talk
2010
Star
2016
American Music Awards
1974
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
2017
Living Single
1993
Ice Age: The Meltdown
2006
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
1992
Ice Age: Continental Drift
2012
Eve
2003
Scary Movie 3
2003
Ice Age: Collision Course
2016
The Critic
1994
Maya and the Three
2021
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Today
1952
Hollywood
2020
Yo! MTV Raps
1988
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
22 Jump Street
2014
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Miracles from Heaven
2016
Hustle
2022
Chicago
2002
Girls Trip
2017
What Happens in Vegas
2008
Roc
1991
Taxi
2004
The Bone Collector
1999
Hairspray
2007
Sphere
1998
Ice Age: Boiling Point
2027
Rock Concert
1973
Payback
2022
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2021
Last Holiday
2006
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
2011
Hoodlum
1997
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
2004
Valentine's Day
2010
When the Streetlights Go On
2020
Bringing Out the Dead
1999
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
2016
The Early Show
1999
Hogan Knows Best
2005
Juice
1992
Beauty Shop
2005
Mama Flora's Family
1998
Set It Off
1996
Stranger Than Fiction
2006
The Secret Life of Bees
2008
Mad Money
2008
The Queen Latifah Show
2000
MADtv
1995
I Love the '80s Strikes Back
2003
Just Wright
2010
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
2009
Bringing Down the House
2003
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
Jungle Fever
1991
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
2023
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
2019
The Earth Day Special
1990
The Jenny Jones Show
1991
The Country Bears
2002
Untold Stories of Hip Hop
2019
The Dilemma
2011
Joyful Noise
2012
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
2005
End of the Road
2022
Brown Sugar
2002
The Cookout
2004
My Life
1993
And the Winner Isn't
2017
House Party 2
1991
A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
2023
Bessie
2015
The Little Mermaid Live!
2019
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
Living with the Dead
2002
Flint
2017
You're Watching Video Music Box
2021
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012
2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2023
Living Out Loud
1998
The Tiger Rising
2022
Arctic Tale
2007
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
1993
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
2002
The Grammys
1959
Living with the Dead
2002
Steel Magnolias
2012
Who's the Man?
1993
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
2025
Zac Efron's Pool Party
2009
The Perfect Holiday
2007
The Trap
2019
House of Bodies
2013
The Wiz Live!
2015
Life Support
2007
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
2009
One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute
1999
The Making of the Wiz Live!
2015
Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
1990
Mama Africa
2002
VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens
2016
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004
Girls Trip 2
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Tony Bennett: Duets II - The Great Performances
2012
King of the South
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Garrett's Gift
2008
Teach
2013
I Hate The Way I Look
1994
Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras
2002