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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 18, 1970
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
- Dana Owens
- 퀸 라티파
- Κουίν Λατίφα
- Dana Elaine Owens
- 拉蒂法皇后
Queen Latifah
2.1 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
0.0
Ellie (voice)
Ice Age: Boiling Point
2027
7.4
Self
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
2025
9.0
Self
A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
2023
8.1
Self
2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2023
7.5
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
2023
5.6
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
3.0
Self - Guest
Sherri
2022
6.0
Brenda Freeman
End of the Road
2022
4.0
Self - Funeral Attendee (archive footage)
Payback
2022
7.7
Teresa Sugerman
Hustle
2022
Credits
Ice Age: Boiling Point
as Ellie (voice)
2027
0.0
Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
as Self
2025
7.4
A GRAMMY Salute to 50 Years of Hip-Hop
as Self
2023
9.0
2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2023
8.1
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
2023
7.5
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Sherri
as Self - Guest
2022
3.0
End of the Road
as Brenda Freeman
2022
6.0
Payback
as Self - Funeral Attendee (archive footage)
2022
4.0
Hustle
as Teresa Sugerman
2022
7.7
The Tiger Rising
as Willie May
2022
5.6
You're Watching Video Music Box
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.4
2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self
2021
7.0
Maya and the Three
as Gran Bruja (voice)
2021
7.9
The Equalizer
as Robyn McCall
2021
7.3
Hollywood
as Hattie McDaniel
2020
7.2
Hollywood
as Hattie Mcdaniel
2020
7.2
When the Streetlights Go On
as Detective Grasso
2020
6.5
The Little Mermaid Live!
as Ursula
2019
6.7
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America
as Self
2019
8.0
Untold Stories of Hip Hop
as Self
2019
0.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
The Trap
as Dr. Obayuwana
2019
4.8
And the Winner Isn't
as Self
2017
5.7
Flint
as Iza Banks
2017
6.8
Carpool Karaoke: The Series
as Self
2017
6.1
Girls Trip
as Sasha Franklin
2017
6.8
Star
as Carlotta Brown
2016
8.0
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
8.5
VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens
2016
0.0
Ice Age: Collision Course
as Ellie (voice)
2016
6.1
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade
as Ellie (voice)
2016
6.4
Miracles from Heaven
as Angela Bradford
2016
7.4
The Wiz Live!
as The Wiz
2015
7.0
The Making of the Wiz Live!
as Self
2015
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
Bessie
as Bessie Smith
2015
6.3
Lip Sync Battle
as Self
2015
6.4
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
Empire
as Carlotta Brown
2015
7.1
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
22 Jump Street
as Mrs. Dickson (uncredited)
2014
6.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Teach
as Self
2013
7.0
House of Bodies
as Nicole
2013
4.9
Steel Magnolias
as M'Lynn
2012
7.0
Ice Age: Continental Drift
as Ellie (voice)
2012
6.4
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
as Self
2012
5.0
Finding Your Roots
as Self
2012
6.6
Tony Bennett: Duets II - The Great Performances
as Self
2012
4.0
Joyful Noise
as Vi Rose Hill
2012
6.4
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
as Ellie (voice)
2011
6.5
The Dilemma
as Dana
2011
5.3
The Talk
2010
3.0
Hot in Cleveland
as Aunt Esther Jean Johnson
2010
7.3
Just Wright
as Leslie Wright
2010
6.5
Valentine's Day
as Paula Thomas
2010
5.9
🎬
Unearthing the Lost World | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
as Self
2009
0.0
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1980s, 1990s and 2000s
as Self (archive)
2009
0.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Michael Jackson Memorial
as Self
2009
8.0
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
as Ellie (voice)
2009
6.8
Zac Efron's Pool Party
as Self
2009
3.2
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
as Self
2009
4.6
The Secret Life of Bees
as August Boatwright
2008
7.5
What Happens in Vegas
as Dr. Twitchell
2008
6.1
Garrett's Gift
2008
0.0
Mad Money
as Nina Brewster
2008
6.5
The Perfect Holiday
as Mrs. Christmas
2007
5.4
Hairspray
as Motormouth Maybelle
2007
6.7
Arctic Tale
as Narrator
2007
6.7
Life Support
as Ana
2007
5.6
30 Rock
as Regina Bookman
2006
7.5
Stranger Than Fiction
as Penny Escher
2006
7.3
VH1 Rock Honors
2006
7.0
Ice Age: The Meltdown
as Ellie (voice)
2006
6.7
Last Holiday
as Georgia Byrd
2006
7.2
The Reichen Show
as Self - Guest
2005
4.8
The Tyra Banks Show
2005
4.8
Hogan Knows Best
2005
5.2
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
as Aunt Em
2005
5.2
Beauty Shop
as Gina Norris
2005
6.3
Taxi
as Isabelle 'Belle' Williams
2004
5.6
The Cookout
as Security Guard
2004
4.6
Entourage
as Dana Elaine Owens
2004
7.4
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
as Self
2004
0.0
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
as Gina
2004
6.0
Scary Movie 3
as Aunt Shaneequa / The Oracle
2003
6.0
I Love the '80s Strikes Back
2003
8.0
Eve
as Simone
2003
8.6
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
America's Next Top Model
as Guest
2003
5.3
Bringing Down the House
as Charlene Morton
2003
6.0
Chicago
as Matron Mama Morton
2002
7.1
Brown Sugar
as Francine
2002
6.6
The Country Bears
as Cha-Cha
2002
4.7
American Idol
as Self
2002
5.1
Mama Africa
as Host
2002
0.0
Living with the Dead
as Midge Harmon
2002
5.3
Through the Years of Hip Hop Volume 1 Graffiti Extras
2002
0.0
Platinum Comedy Series: Roasting Shaquille O'Neal
as Self - Host
2002
7.0
🎬
Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
The Fairly OddParents
as Pam Dromeda (voice)
2001
7.6
The Queen Latifah Show
2000
4.8
One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star tribute
as Self - Perfomer
1999
9.3
The Bone Collector
as Thelma
1999
6.8
The Early Show
as Self
1999
6.2
Bringing Out the Dead
as Dispatcher Love (voice)
1999
6.6
🎬
Mama Flora's Family
as Diana
1998
7.3
Living Out Loud
as Liz Bailey
1998
5.8
Sphere
as Alice 'Teeny' Fletcher
1998
6.1
Hoodlum
as Sulie
1997
6.4
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Set It Off
as Cleo
1996
7.2
Spin City
as Robin Jones
1996
7.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self - Guest
1996
3.9
MADtv
as Self - Hostess
1995
7.0
Ellen
as Queen Latifah (uncredited)
1994
6.1
🎬
I Hate The Way I Look
as Self
1994
0.0
The Critic
as Queen Latifah (voice)
1994
7.3
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
My Life
as Theresa
1993
6.7
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
as Self - Special Guest
1993
6.0
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
as Self - Guest
1993
7.2
Living Single
as Khadijah James
1993
8.3
Who's the Man?
as Queen Latifah
1993
5.2
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
as Queen Latifah
1992
6.6
MTV Movie & TV Awards
as Self - Presenter
1992
8.1
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
Juice
as Ruffhouse M.C.
1992
7.2
House Party 2
as Zora
1991
5.3
🎬
The Jenny Jones Show
1991
0.0
Roc
1991
7.8
Jungle Fever
as Lashawn
1991
6.4
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
as Marissa Redman
1990
7.9
The Earth Day Special
as Self
1990
6.3
Slammin' Rap Video Magazine Vol. 1
as Self
1990
0.0
Yo! MTV Raps
as Self
1988
7.5
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as Self - Guest
1988
5.4
MTV Video Music Awards
as Self
1984
7.7
Entertainment Tonight
as Self
1981
4.1
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host & Musical Guest
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Rock Concert
as Self
1973
8.0
The Grammys
as Self - Host
1959
8.6
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
The Oscars
as Self - Performer
1953
7.0
Today
as Self
1952
5.6
🎬
Girls Trip 2
as Sasha Franklin
N/A
0.0
🎬
King of the South
N/A
0.0