| Sanaa Lathan |
| | Birth name | Sanaa McCoy Lathan | | Born | September 19, 1971 (1971-09-19) (age 35)
| | Years active | 1996-Present |
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (born September 19, 1971) is a Tony Award-nominated American actress. Image File history File links Michelle_Landau. ...
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Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
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Biography
Career Following her training at Yale, where she performed in a number of Shakespeare's plays, Lathan earned acclaim both off-Broadway and on the Los Angeles stage. Encouraged by her father to make Los Angeles her professional base, the young actress found early television roles on episodes of such shows as In the House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue, and Moesha. During that same period, she won raves and a Best Actress nod from the Los Angeles NAACP Theatrical Award Committee for her performance in To Take Arms. “Yale†redirects here. ...
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Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...
In the House was a situation comedy starring LL Cool J. The show ran from 1995 to 1999. ...
Family Matters is an American sitcom about a middle-class, black family living in Chicago. ...
NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ...
Moesha is also the title of a song by former Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, frequently performed by his first solo band. ...
In 1998, Lathan earned a degree of recognition with her role as the mother of Wesley Snipes' title character in Blade. She followed this the subsequent year with back-to-back turns in The Best Man and The Wood. The Best Man was a comedic ensemble film, starring Taye Diggs, Nia Long and Morris Chestnut. The Wood, another ensemble film starring Diggs and Omar Epps, cast her as the love interest of Epps, who at the time was also her real-life boyfriend. Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962 is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. ...
Blade is a 1998 film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the the Blade comics series. ...
The Best Man is a 1999 comedy-drama romance film, written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. ...
The Wood is a 1999 comedy-drama-romance film, written by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd, and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. ...
Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs on January 2, 1971 in Rochester, New York[1]) is an American theatre, film and television actor. ...
Nia Long (born Nitara Carlynn Long on October 30, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress. ...
Morris L. Chestnut (born January 1, 1969) is an American film and television actor. ...
Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor and musician. ...
Lathan and Epps were reunited onscreen in Prince-Bythewood's Love & Basketball, this time playing a couple as passionate about basketball as they are about each other. The film served as a break-out role for Lathan, who played a leading character instead of the girlfriend of one. Her work in Love & Basketball earned her "Best Actress" nominations for both the NAACP Image Award and the Independent Spirit Award. That same year, Lathan earned additional acclaim for her work in the multicultural comedy Catfish in Black Bean Sauce and for her second collaboration with Prince-Bythewood, Disappearing Acts. Based on a novel by Terry McMillan, the HBO movie cast Lathan as an aspiring singer/songwriter in love with a carpenter, played by her Blade co-star Wesley Snipes. For her work in the film, Lathan earned an Essence Award for Best Actress, as well as the added assurance of a very busy work schedule. That year, she was named by Ebony magazine as one of its 55 Most Beautiful People and was honoured by Essence magazine and Black Entertainment Television. Love & Basketball is a 2000 romantic drama film, written and directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood. ...
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music and literature. ...
Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ...
Disappearing Acts is a 2000 drama-romance film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, and Regina Hall. ...
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951 in Port Huron, Michigan) is an African-American author. ...
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962 is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. ...
Essence is an American fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine. ...
Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, and Jamie Foxx on the 60th anniversary cover of Ebony Magazine, November 2005 Ebony, a magazine for the African American market, was founded by John H. Johnson and has been published since the autumn of 1945. ...
Essence is an American fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine. ...
Black Entertainment Television is an American cable network based in Washington, D.C. targeted toward African-American and urban audiences in the United States. ...
Lathan subsequently starred in several major Hollywood films, including Alien Vs. Predator which was Lathan's biggest role to date. Lathan was the female lead in a Science Fiction movie which is rare for a african-american actress. In addition, Alien Vs. Predator was a major success grossing over $171 million dollars worldwide. Out of Time was also an important role for Lathan as she played the bad girl. ...
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Out of Time is a 2003 thriller film, directed by Carl Franklin. ...
In 2006, Lathan co-starred with Simon Baker in Something New, a romantic comedy about an interracial relationship. Lathan appeared in a recurring role as Michelle Landau in another interracial relationship as the much younger wife of a Texas businessman (Larry Hagman) during the fourth season of the television series, Nip/Tuck. // Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing...
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Something New is a 2006 romance film, written by Kriss Turner and directed by Sanaa Hamri. ...
An interracial couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of differing races. ...
Michelle Landau is a character that will appear in the fourth season premiere of the television series, Nip/Tuck. ...
An interracial couple is a romantic couple or marriage in which the partners are of differing races. ...
Larry Hagman (born on September 21, 1931) is a popular American actor who is famous for playing J.R. Ewing in the 1980s television soap opera Dallas and Major Anthony Nelson on the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. ...
Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ...
Personal Life Generally private, Lathan has never been married but had been involved with actor Omar Epps for a time. Actress Regina Hall is among her closest friends. Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor and musician. ...
Regina Hall Regina Hall (born on December 12, 1970 in Washington, D.C.) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles in the Scary Movie films. ...
She is the daughter of Stan Lathan, an influential producer/director. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490133/
Trivia At least three of the films she's starred in contain some sort of wedding sequence.
Brother Tendaji is a well known LA based deejay.
As the female lead in Alien vs. Predator, Lathan has three things in common with Sigourney Weaver, the last female lead in the franchise: both majored in English at a California university, both graduated from Yale School of Drama, and both have fathers who created shows for television. Comic book series Film version of Alien vs. ...
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress. ...
Has worked on two separate occasions with three different lead actors: Wesley Snipes, Taye Diggs, and Omar Epps. Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962 is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. ...
Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs on January 2, 1971 in Rochester, New York[1]) is an American theatre, film and television actor. ...
Omar Hashim Epps (born July 20, 1973) is an American actor and musician. ...
Selected filmography This is a list of television-related events in 2006. ...
Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ...
// Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2006; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing...
Something New is a 2006 romance film, written by Kriss Turner and directed by Sanaa Hamri. ...
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ...
Alien vs. ...
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. ...
Out of Time is a 2003 thriller film, directed by Carl Franklin. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 2002. ...
Brown Sugar is a 2002 romantic drama film, written by Michael Elliott and Rick Famuyiwa, and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ...
Disappearing Acts is a 2000 drama-romance film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, and Regina Hall. ...
This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ...
Love & Basketball is a 2000 romantic drama film, written and directed by Gina Prince-Blythewood. ...
The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ...
The Best Man is a 1999 comedy-drama romance film, written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. ...
The year 1999 in film involved some significant events. ...
The Wood is a 1999 comedy-drama-romance film, written by Rick Famuyiwa and Todd Boyd, and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. ...
// February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein. ...
Blade is a 1998 film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the the Blade comics series. ...
Awards & nominations - Image Awards
- 2007, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Something New (Nominated)
- 2007, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series: Nip/Tuck (Nominated)
- 2004, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Out of Time (Nominated)
- 2003, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Brown Sugar (Nominated)
- 2001, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture: Love & Basketball (Winner)
- 2000, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: The Best Man (Nominated)
The BET Awards were established in 2001 by BET to celebrate and honour all of the favorites of Black music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year. ...
Something New was the Beatles third Capitol release, but fifth American album following the UA release of A Hard Days Night. ...
The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of African-Americans in feature, independent and television films. ...
Something New was the Beatles third Capitol release, but fifth American album following the UA release of A Hard Days Night. ...
The title Out of Time has been used for: A highly-regarded song by the Rolling Stones from the albums Aftermath (UK) and Flowers (US). ...
Brown sugar typical of that bought in Western supermarkets Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. ...
There are multiple meaning for Love & Basketball The 2000 film — Love & Basketball (film) The 2000 soundtrack — Love & Basketball (soundtrack) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Disappearing Acts is a 2000 drama-romance film, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Sanaa Lathan, Wesley Snipes, and Regina Hall. ...
The NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music and literature. ...
Something New was the Beatles third Capitol release, but fifth American album following the UA release of A Hard Days Night. ...
Nip/Tuck is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks. ...
The title Out of Time has been used for: A highly-regarded song by the Rolling Stones from the albums Aftermath (UK) and Flowers (US). ...
Brown sugar typical of that bought in Western supermarkets Brown sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. ...
There are multiple meaning for Love & Basketball The 2000 film — Love & Basketball (film) The 2000 soundtrack — Love & Basketball (soundtrack) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Best man has several meanings: Best man is a member of a wedding Films: The Best Man (1914 film) is a 1914 film The Best Man (1916 film) is a 1916 film The Best Man (1917 film) is a 1917 film The Best Man (1919 film) is a 1919 film...
Founded in 1984, the Independent Spirit Awards were originally known as the FINDIE (Friends of Independents) Awards and presented winners with Plexiglas pyramids containing suspended shoestrings representing the paltry budgets of independent films. ...
There are multiple meaning for Love & Basketball The 2000 film — Love & Basketball (film) The 2000 soundtrack — Love & Basketball (soundtrack) This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
The Theatre World Award is an American honor given annually to an actor or an actress in recognition of an outstanding breakout performance in their New York City stage debut. ...
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. ...
What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...
A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. ...
External links The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ...
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