Aliases
Dana Elaine Owens


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Actresses // Singers // Rappers // Women


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Famous For
TV Sitcom: Living Single

Albums: All Hail the Queen, Nature of a Sista, Black Reign, Order in the Court, The Dana Owens Album, Trav'lin' Light.

Spokesperson for Cover Girl cosmetics, Curvation ladies underwear, Pizza Hut and Jenny Craig.




Quick Bio
Latifah's work in music, film and television has earned her a Golden Globe award, Grammy Award, five additional Grammy nominations, two Screen Actors Guild Award, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination. Tommy Boy Records released Latifah's first album All Hail the Queen in 1989 when she was nineteen. In 2004, she released the soul/jazz standards The Dana Owens Album. From 1993 to 1998, Latifah had a starring role on Living Single, a FOX sitcom, she also wrote and performed its theme music. She began her film career in a supporting role in the 1991 films House Party 2, Juice, and Jungle Fever. Queen really started gaining notice after she played a lesbian in the film Set It Off. She has starred in two movie remakes (Taxi and Last Holiday), four sequels (House Party 2, Scary Movie 3, Barbershop 2: Back in Business and Ice Age 2: The Meltdown), 1 Spinoff (Beauty Shop), 1 movie based on a book (The Bone Collector), and two screen adaptations of musicals (Chicago and Hairspray).