Queen Latifah

**Dana Elaine Owens** (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), known professionally as **Queen Latifah** is an American, rapper, actress and singer. After she signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989, Latifah released her first album _All Hail the Queen_. She is widely considered of the greatest female rappers of all time. She has also won a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Image Awards, a Grammy Award, six additional Grammy nominations, an Emmy Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination.

She is in a partnership with Eboni Nichols and has a son Rebel.

## Discography

**Studio albums**
- _All Hail the Queen_ (1989)
- _Nature of a Sista_' (1991)
- _Black Reign_ (1993)
- _Order in the Court_ (1998)
- _The Dana Owens Album_ (2004)
- _Trav'lin' Light_ (2007)
- _Persona_ (2009)

### Movies

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|1991|||||||
|Lashawn||||||||
|Zora||||||||
|Herself||||||||
|rowspan=2|1992|||||||
|Ruffhouse M.C.||||||||
|Herself||||||||
|rowspan=2|1993|||||||
|Herself|Cameo|||||||
|Theresa||||||||
|1996||||||||
|Cleopatra 'Cleo' Sims||||||||
|1997||||||||
|Sulie||||||||
|rowspan=3|1998|||||||
|Liz Bailey||||||||
|Alice "Teeny" Fletcher||||||||
|Diana|Television movie|||||||
|rowspan=2|1999|||||||
|Thelma||||||||
|Dispatcher Love (voice)||||||||
|rowspan=5|2002|||||||
|Matron "Mama" Morton||||||||
|Dove (English voice)||||||||
|Francine||||||||
|Cha-Cha||||||||
|Midge Harmon|Television movie|||||||
|rowspan=2|2003|||||||
|Aunt Shaneequa / The Oracle||||||||
|Charlene Morton|Producer|||||||
|rowspan=3|2004|||||||
|Isabelle “Belle” Williams||||||||
|Mildred Smith|Producer|||||||
|rowspan=2|Gina Norris|||||||
|rowspan=2|2005|||||||
|Producer||||||||
|Aunt Em|Television film|||||||
|rowspan=3|2006|||||||
|Penny Escher||||||||
|Ellie (voice)||||||||
|Georgia Byrd||||||||
|rowspan=3|2007|||||||
|Motormouth Maybelle||||||||
|Mrs. Christmas|Producer|||||||
|Ana Wallace|Television film; Producer|||||||
|rowspan=3|2008|||||||
|Nina Brewster||||||||
|Dr. Twitchell||||||||
|August Boatwright||||||||
|2009||||||||
|Ellie (voice)||||||||
|rowspan=2|2010|||||||
|Paula Thomas||||||||
|Leslie Wright|Producer|||||||
|2011||||||||
|Susan Warner||||||||
|rowspan=3|2012|||||||
|Ellie (voice)||||||||
|Vi Rose Hill||||||||
|M'Lynn|Television film|||||||
|2013||||||||
|Nicole|Executive Producer|||||||
|2014||||||||
|Mrs. Dickson||||||||
|rowspan=2|2015|||||||
|Bessie Smith|Television film|||||||
|The Wiz|Television film; NBC Musical based on _The Wiz_|||||||
|rowspan=2|2016|||||||
|Angela||||||||
|Ellie (voice)||||||||
|rowspan=2|2017|||||||
|Sasha Franklin||||||||
|Iza Banks|Television film|||||||
|2019||||||||
|Dr. Obayuwana||||||||
|rowspan="3"|2022|||||||
|Willie May||||||||
|Teresa Sugarman||||||||
|Brenda||||||||
|TBA||||||||
|TBA|Pre-production|||||||

### Television

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1991||||||||
|Marissa Redman / Dee Dee|Episodes: "Working It Out" and "She Ain’t Heavy"|||||||
|1995||||||||
|Herself (voice)|Episode: "Lady Hawke"|||||||
|1997||||||||
|Herself|Episode: "Ellen Unplugged"|||||||
|1993–98||||||||
|Khadijah James|Lead Role|||||||
|1999–01||||||||
|Herself|Host; Creator / Executive Producer|||||||
|2000-present||||||||
|Ellie (voice)||||||||
|2001||||||||
|Robin Jones|Episodes: "Yeah Baby!" and "Sleeping with the Enemy"|||||||
|2003–08||||||||
|Herself / Gwen Ifill|Host; Episodes: "Queen Latifah/Ms. Dynamite", "Queen Latifah" and "Anne Hathaway/The Killers"|||||||
|rowspan=2|2004|||||||
|Simone|Episode: "Party All the Time"|||||||
|Pam Dromeda (voice)|Episode: "Crash Nebula"|||||||
|2005||||||||
|Herself|Host; Television special|||||||
|2008||||||||
|Narrator|Episode: "Garrett's Gift"|||||||
|rowspan=3|2010|||||||
|Herself|Episode: "Porn Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"|||||||
|Regina Bookman|Episode: "Let's Stay Together"|||||||
|Herself||||||||
|2011||||||||
|Ellie (voice)|Television special|||||||
|2011–12||||||||
|Sharon Love|Recurring role; Executive Producer|||||||
|2012||||||||
|Bobbie|Episode: "Beauty and the Birthday"; Executive producer|||||||
|2013–15||||||||
|Herself|Host; Creator / Executive producer|||||||
|rowspan=2|2014|||||||
|Aunt Esther Jean Johnson|Episode: "Strange Bedfellows"|||||||
|Sweet Brown|Episode: "Sweet Brown: Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That"|||||||
|2015||||||||
|Herself|Episode: "Queen Latifah vs. Marlon Wayans"|||||||
|2016||||||||
|Ellie (voice)|Television special|||||||
|2016–19||||||||
|rowspan=2|Carlotta Brown|Main cast||||||
|rowspan=2|2017|||||||
|Episode: "Noble Memory"||||||||
|Herself|Episode: "Queen Latifah & Jada Pinkett Smith"|||||||
|2019||||||||
|Ursula|Television special|||||||
|rowspan=2|2020|||||||
|Hattie McDaniel|Episodes: "A Hollywood Ending" and "Jump"|||||||
|Detective Grasso|Miniseries|||||||
|2020; 2022||||||||
|Herself|Episodes: "A _Girl’s Trip_ Coronavirus Quarantine Reunion" and "Queen Latifah is on a Mission!"|||||||
|2021||||||||
|Gran Bruja (voice)|Miniseries|||||||
|2021–25||||||||
|Robyn McCall|Lead Role; Executive producer|||||||

## Infobox (musical artist)

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## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Queen Latifah
- **image**: Queen Latifah 2018.jpg
- **caption**: Latifah in 2018
- **birth name**: Dana Elaine Owens
- **birth place**: Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
- **years active**: 1989–present
- **children**: 1