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Lela Rochon Staples was born on April 17, 1964 in Los Angeles, USA to Zelma and Samuel Staples. Zelma was a nurse practitioner; while Samuel owned a graphic-arts business.
“Samuel and Zelma Staples both are from Camden, AR Samuel a 1963 grad of UAPB. We new each other from home. We were always friendly with each other, but...
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- Became The “Spuds” Girl
- Launched Film Career Opposite Eddie Murphy
- Forced to Wangle The Exhale Audition
- New and Challenging Roles
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But Rochon’s genetic combination of brains and beauty were inadvertently leading her down another path. “In Los Angeles, people stop you on the street and say, ’Do you want to model? It pays two hundred dollars an hour!’” she told Cosmopolitan’s Tom Green. Rochon found it a difficult offer to pass up, and the money helped pay for college tuition an...
Rochon’s first big break came when she won a small but pivotal role in the 1989 Eddie Murphy film Harlem Nights. She spent only ten minutes on screen as a dressed-to-the-nines hooker, but it was a sassy performance that earned notice. Three years later, Murphy cast her in a small role in Boomerang, and Rochon again stole the moment—her scenes turne...
When Rochon read Terry McMillan’s 1992 bestseller Waiting to Exhale, a novel centered around the romantic travails in the lives of a quartet of successful, intelligent African American women, Rochon felt a connection. “I knew that Robin was my part,” she told Collier in Ebony when she heard it was being made into a film. “I was like, ‘Oh please, my...
The success of the film made Rochon a household name: by early 1996, Waiting to Exhale had become a box-office phenomenon that was taking in millions of dollars weekly, and Rochon was a star. “Although Exhale is an ensemble effort, it is Rochon who most surprised fans with her versatile acting effort,” wrote Ebony’s Collier. Female moviegoers ident...
Cosmopolitan,May 1996, p. 114. Ebony,May 1996. Essence,May 1996, p. 52; March 1997, pp. 67-68. Jet,April 9, 1990, pp. 24-26. People,January 15, 1996; October 14, 1996. —Carol Brennan
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