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Sep 23, 2022 · In an interview with award-winning actress Sanaa Lathan, she revealed to VIBE her sentiments about taking on such a directorial role, as well as what the novel-turned-film On The Come Up means...
Sanaa Lathan was born on September 19, 1971, in New York City, New York, US, to actor and dancer Eleanor McCoy and director and producer Stan Lathan. Her brother, Tendaji Lathan, grew up to become a well-known DJ. Her parents later divorced, but she remained close to both of them.
- The Affair(2018-2019)—“Janelle”
- Something New(2006)—“Kenya Denise McQueen”
- Nappily Ever After(2018)—“Violet”
- Love and Basketball(2000)—“Monica Wright”
- The Best Man(1999)/The Best Man Holiday(2013)—“Robin”
- Nip/Tuck(2006)—“Michelle Landau”
- Blade(1998)—“Vanessa”
- Alien vs. Predator(2004)—“Alexa Woods”
- Contagion(2011)—“Aubrey Cheever”
- The Cleveland Show(2009-2013)/Family Guy(2010-2019)—“Donna Tubbs”
Sanaa Lathan: Some of the best writing on TV, and I loved the actors—the crème de la crème. The experience really reflected that. They were mainly female show runners, and they were very thoughtful about creating Janelle. They hired Black female playwright Lydia Diamond the first season to write Janelle and then, this year, they hired a woman of co...
SL:It’s interesting because it’s become, like a lot of my rom-coms, kind of a new classic. Netflix picked it up and people come up to me all the time, and I get those notifications on Twitter that people are watching it again and again. So it’s doing something for people, which I love. I got to work with Taraji [P. Henson], she was in that, so that...
AVC: In both Something New and Nappily Ever After,you play a woman who really only becomes true to herself when she embraces her natural hair. It’s such a powerful scene when you shave your head. SL: It connected all over the world, because the hair is really a metaphor for self-love, and being outside of what society tells us we should be. And eve...
AVC: You’ve said that you were not a basketball player, but you pulled it off so well. SL: My mother was a dancer, and I just grew up dancing, and I was lucky that I had that. Because it’s really all about rhythm and form, and so I just practiced my ass off for months and months. By the time we shot it, I could actually do more tricks than some of ...
AVC: In the Best Manmovies, the men are all over the place, and you and Nia Long are the voices of reasons, like, “Can you just get it together?” SL: Isn’t that just how it is? Yes. But we had fun, especially on the second one. The first one, we didn’t know each other. We were in New York. For me it was so exciting, because it was a real movie, and...
AVC: Nip/Tuck was such a bananas show, but your character has such a great relationship with Julian McMahon’s character, Christian. SL: He was the doctor. She has a past with Jacqueline Bisset’s character, who—she was, like, a high-class prostitute who harvested [organs]—oh, my god. It was so wild. AVC: When you came on, what was your take? Because...
AVC: In Blade, you play Wesley Snipes’ evil mom, who he has to stab with a bone. SL: And I had to die on screen, which was so fun. It was one of the most exciting things to get a job with Wesley Snipes. He was so big back then. To play his mom—I’m a vampire, so I’m younger than him. And it was great. How fun to wear the fangs—you had the fangs, you...
SL: Alien Vs. Predator was amazing. I think they had been looking for the lead for, like, a year, but for some reason couldn’t find it. It was a Friday night, and they were like, “Could you come in tomorrow on Saturday and read for this movie?” And I was like, “No.” Because it just felt so last-minute. But I thought about it, so I went in, and I wa...
AVC: Steven Soderbergh is such a genius. SL: He is. I love him. He’s so great. That was really cool, because it’s so collaborative. It’s like his main producer is the first AD, and he’s the cameraman, and he’s just so in the trenches with you. And I’ve known Laurence Fishburne for a long time, and we got to do scenes together. That was a quick one....
SL: That was another fluke where I got a last-minute audition, and I was like, “I’m not going.” Because I had been doing voice-over auditions for years and never even gotten a call back. So I was like, “I’m not going to get this because I never get voice-overs,” and then they were like, “Just go. It’s the creators of Family Guy.” So, thank god I we...
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Sep 6, 2019 · To make sure Janelle's storyline felt authentic, Treem hired female writers of color to get it right — a move Lathan thinks only enhanced the executive producer’s thoughtful characterizations. “After being in the business so long, I’m always talking about how to make a character deeper,” Lathan says.
Sanaa McCoy Lathan (/ s ə ˈ n ɑː ˈ l eɪ θ ən /; born September 19, 1971) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. Her career began after she appeared in the shows In the House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue, and Moesha.
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Feb 3, 2006 · Like many who grow up in show-biz families, actress Sanaa Lathan says some of her earliest memories are of the world of performers.
