Sanaa Lathan Bio, Age, Net Worth, Husband, Kids, Mother, Father, Movies, TV Shows

Sanaa Lathan Biography

Sanaa Lathan (Sanaa McCoy Lathan) is an American actress and voice actress. Lathan has starred in many films, including The Best Man, its 2013 sequel, The Best Man Holiday, Love & Basketball, Brown Sugar, The Family That Preys, lien vs. Predator, Contagion and Now You See Me 2.

In theatre, shes nominated for a Tony Award for her performance on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun and starred in 2010 in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London. Lathan voiced Donna Tubbs fm 2009 to 2013, in The Cleveland Show and has voiced her in all concurrent and subsequent Family Guy appearances.

Sanaa Lathan Age

Sanaa Lathan was born on September 19, 1971 in New York City, New York, U.S. She is 47 years old as of 2018.

Sanaa Lathan Height

Lathan stands at a height of t: 5′ 7″ (1.7 m).

Sanaa Lathan Net Worth

She has an estimated net worth of $5.5 million. Acting is the primary source of her income.

Sanaa Lathan Husband – Sanaa Lathan Married

Sanaa is not married but previously she was married to Hollywood actor Shemar Moore since on May 11, 1990. According to the reports, the marriage ended in a divorce in 1996.

Sanaa Lathan Father

Stan Lathan is the father of Sanaa Lathan who is an American television and film director and television producer. He is executive producer and director of BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood.

Sanaa Lathan Mother

Eleanor McCoy is the mother of  Sanaa.  Eleanor McCoy, was a dancer and actress. She divorced from her husband, Stan Lathan while Sanaa was still young. This saw Sanaa shuttling between Los Angeles and New York to spend time with each of them.

Sanaa Lathan Siblings

Lathan has a brother named Tendaji Lathan, a DJ and three sisters namely Colette Lathan, Arielle Lathan and Lilane Lathan.

Sanaa Lathan Children

Sanaa does not have children neither is she married, maybe she is waiting for her perfect man to get married and have children with in the near future. In an interview she revealed that she is single and ready to mingle but her process of getting someone to bear children with is still underway.

Sanaa Lathan Early Life

Lathan first name means “artistry” in Swahili and “piece of art” in Arabic. Lathan’s mother, Eleanor McCoy, was an actress and dancer who performed on Broadway with Eartha Kitt. Her father, Stan Lathan, worked behind the scenes in television for PBS, as well as a producer on shows such as Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam and Sanford & Son. She has a brother Tendaji Lathan, a well known DJ.

Lathan went to Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She then attended Yale University and earned a master’s degree in drama.

Sanaa Lathan Education

Following Lathan’s training at Yale, where she studied with Earle R. Gister and performed in a number of Shakespeare plays, she earned acclaim both off-Broadway and on the Los Angeles stage. Encouraged by her father to make Los Angeles her professional base, she found early television roles in episodes of such shows as In the House, NYPD Blue, Family Matters and Moesha. During that same period, Lathan won raves and a Best Actress nod from the Los Angeles NAACP Theatrical Award Committee for her performance in To Take Arms.

Sanaa Lathan Career

Lathan earned a degree of recognition in 1998, with her role as the mother of Wesley Snipes’ title character in Blade. Lathan followed this the subsequent year with a role in Life with Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy and back-to-back turns in The Best Man and The Wood. The Best Man was a comedic ensemble film, starring Taye Diggs, Harold Perrineau Jr., Nia Long and Morris Chestnut. The film went on to become one of the top ten highest grossing African American films in history and Lathan received a NAACP Image Award nomination for her performance.

Lathan was cast as the love interest of Epps in The Wood, another ensemble film starring Diggs and Omar Epps. Lathan and Epps were reunited onscreen in Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Love & Basketball, this time playing a couple as passionate about basketball as they are about each other. Lathan’s earned the 2001 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, for herperformance in Love & Basketball as well as an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress and a BET Award. She appeared in 2000, in the Off-Broadway production of The Vagina Monologues along with Julianna Margulies and Teri Garr.

Lathan earned additional acclaim for her work in 2001, in the multicultural comedy film Catfish in Black Bean Sauce. Next was her second collaboration with Prince-Bythewood: Disappearing Acts; it is based on a novel written by Terry McMillan. Lathan is cast in the HBO film, as an aspiring singer/songwriter in love with a carpenter, played by her Blade co-star Wesley Snipes. For her work in the film, she earned an Essence Award for Best Actress. That year, Lathan was named as one of its 55 Most Beautiful People by Ebony magazine and was honoured by Essence magazine and Black Entertainment Television. Lathan starred in the romantic comedy film, Brown Sugar, alongside Queen Latifah Diggs and Mos Def in 2002.

Her performance earned an NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. The film Brown Sugar, also received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Motion Picture. Lathan starred in 2004, on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun with McDonald, Sean Combs, Audra and Phylicia Rashad. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger. Lathan reprised the role in an ABC Network production, several years later, of A Raisin in the Sun.

She co-starred with Denzel Washington in 2003, in Out of Time. The following year, Lathan was cast in the lead role in Alien vs. Predator. The film was a major success grossing over $171 million worldwide. She has acted in several roles in which her characters are involved in interracial relationships. Lathan co-starred with Simon Baker in 2006, in Something New, a romantic comedy; as Michelle Landau, the much younger wife of Larry Hagmana, a Texas businessman during the fourth season of the television series, Nip/Tuck; and as Andrea in Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys in 2008.

The film also features Kathy Bates and Alfre Woodard, it was released on September 12, 2008 in the U.S. Lathan said in an interview with NPR, the script took a fresh approach to telling an interracial love story, by describing the internal conflict some African-American women confront when it comes to dating interracially. “I feel like with black women, in a way, I feel like it has been harder for us to go there just in terms of culturally. I know that there’s this statistic that says that about 13 percent of black men are in interracial relationships. And don’t quote me on this, but it’s like 4 percent or 3 percent of black women are in interracial relationships and I think that says a lot about you know, either black women’s loyalty her black man or her either guilt about stepping outside of the race.”

In 2009, Lathan co-starred alongside Matthew Broderick in the drama Wonderful World. Lathan voiced the character Donna Tubbs on The Cleveland Show from 2009 to 2013. In 2011, Lathan co-starred in the Steven Soderbergh thriller Contagion together with Matt Damon, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne. Lathan starred with Anthony Mackie and Forest Whitaker in Repentance in 2011, a psychological thriller directed by Phillipe Caland. In the second season of Starz’ original series Boss, Lathan played series regular Mona Fredrickss tarring Kelsey Grammer.

In 2013, she reprised her role in The Best Man′s sequel, The Best Man Holiday. She was cast in 2016, with the ensemble of the sequel of Now You See Me entitled Now You See Me 2, which was a box-office success and she was cast in the Sci Fi movie Approaching the Unknown. Lathan returned to TV in 2017, in a lead role in the series Shots Fired and she also appeared in the movie American Assassin. Lathan will recur in the Season 4 of The Affair, as well as in Nappily Ever After as the lead role.

Sanaa Lathan Movies

• 1997 Miracle in the Woods Young Lilly
• 1997 Drive Carolyn Brody
• 1998 Blade Vanessa Brooks
• 1999 The Wood Alicia
• 1999 The Best Man Robyn
• 1999 Catfish in Black Bean Sauce Nina
• 1999 Life Daisy
• 2000 Love & Basketball Monica Wright
• 2002 Brown Sugar Sidney “Sid” Shaw
• 2003 Out of Time Ann Merai Harrison
• 2004 Alien vs. Predator Alexa “Lex” Woods
• 2005 The Golden Blaze Monica (voice)
• 2006 Something New Kenya McQueen
• 2008 The Family That Preys Andrea Pratt-Bennett
• 2009 Wonderful World Khadi
• 2009 Powder Blue Diana
• 2011 Contagion Aubrey Cheever
• 2013 The Best Man Holiday Robyn Stewart
• 2013 Repentance Maggie Carter
• 2015 The Perfect Guy Leah Vaughn
• 2016 Approaching the Unknown Captain Emily Maddox
• 2016 Now You See Me 2 Natalie Austin
• 2017 American Assassin Deputy Director Irene Kennedy
• 2018 Nappily Ever After Violet Jones
• 2019 Native Son Trudy Thomas

Sanaa Lathan TV Shows

• 1996 In the House Charese
• 1996 Moesha Ebony
• 1997 Family Matters Allison
• 1998 NYPD Blue Shirley Barish
• 1998–1999 LateLine Briana Gilliam
• 2000 Disappearing Acts Zora Banks
• 2006 Nip/Tuck Michelle Landau
• 2008 A Raisin in the Sun Beneatha Younger
• 2009–2013 The Cleveland Show Donna Tubbs (voice)
• 2010–present Family Guy Donna Tubbs (voice)
• 2011 Tilda Sasha Litt
• 2012 Boss Mona Fredricks
• 2014 Real Husbands of Hollywood Herself
• 2017 Shots Fired Ashe Akino
• 2018 The Affair Jenelle
• 2019 The Twilight Zone TBA

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