Music career 1988–1989: Career beginnings She performed the number " Home" from the musical The Wiz in a grammar school play. Always tall, the 5-foot-10-inch (1.78 m) Latifah was a power forward on her high school basketball team. She found her stage name, Latifah ( لطيفة laţīfa), meaning "delicate" and "very kind" in Arabic, in a book of Arabic names when she was eight. After high school, Queen Latifah attended classes at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She attended Catholic school in Newark, New Jersey and Essex Catholic Girls' High School in Irvington, but graduated from Irvington High School. Her parents divorced when Latifah was ten. 2018), a teacher at Irvington High School (Latifah's alma mater), and Lancelot Amos Owens, a police officer. She is the daughter of Rita Lamae (née Bray d. 2.3 2003–2009: Change to traditional singingĭana Elaine Owens was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 18, 1970, and lived primarily in East Orange, New Jersey.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. Latifah became the first hip hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2006). Queen Latifah has been referred to as the " Queen of Rap" by several media articles, as well as "rap's first feminist". Since 2021, she has held the lead role on CBS' revival of the action drama The Equalizer. In 2020, she portrayed Hattie McDaniel in the miniseries Hollywood.
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From 2016 to 2019, she starred as Carlotta Brown in the musical drama series Star. 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. 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. She created the daytime talk show The Queen Latifah Show, which ran from 1999 to 2001, and again from 2013 to 2015, in syndication. In 20, she released two more studio albums – Trav'lin' Light and Persona. Latifah released her fifth album The Dana Owens Album in 2004. 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. 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. The record won a Grammy Award and peaked at No. 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. Latifah starred as Khadijah James on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998. Nature of a Sista' (1991) was her second and final album with Tommy Boy Records. 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". Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970), known professionally as Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, actress, and singer.