Queen Latifah partner-American actress and musician, Queen Latifah was born on March 18th, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey in the United States of America.

Latifah was born to Lancelot Amos Owens and Rita Lamae Bray. She shares the same parents with her older brother, Lancelot Owens Jr.

Latifah was brought up as a Baptist. She graduated from Irvington High School while attending Catholic schools in Newark, New Jersey, including Essex Catholic Girls’ High School there.

Queen Latifah attended classes at Borough of Manhattan Community College after graduating from high school. When she was eight years old, she discovered her stage name, Latifah, which is Arabic for “delicate” and “extremely kind.”

Latifah, who has always been big at 5-foot-10 inches (1.78 m), played power forward for her high school’s basketball team. In a production for the grammar school, she sang the song “Home” from the musical The Wiz.

Queen Latifah career

Latifah, who was 19 at the time, released her debut album All Hail the Queen in 1989, which featured the smash hit “Ladies First.”

Latifah is well known for her work in music, cinema, and television. She has won a number of awards, including a Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, three Screen Actors Guild, two NAACP Image, and a nomination for an Academy Award.

She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006, making history as the first hip-hop artist to do so. Tommy Boy Records produced her 1991 album Nature of a Sista.

The single “U.N.I.T.Y.” from her third album, Black Reign (1993), had a significant impact on bringing attention to violence against women and the objectification of Black female sexuality. It was the first solo female rapper’s album to be certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

The song earned a Grammy Award and debuted in the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. She later played the lead in Set It Off (1996), and on June 16, 1998, Motown Records published her fourth album, Order in the Court. The Dana Owens Album, Latifah’s fifth album, was released in 2004.

She issued Trav’lin’ Light and Persona, two additional studio albums, in 2007 and 2009, respectively. From 1993 through 1998, Latifah played Khadijah James in the Fox sitcom Living Single.

She was the creator of the daytime chat show The Queen Latifah Show, which was shown in syndication from 1999 to 2001 and again from 2013 to 2015.

With her performance as Matron “Mama” Morton in the musical movie Chicago (2002), Latifah won praise and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

She has starred or co-starred in a number of films, such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Taxi (2004), Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2005), Beauty Shop (2005), Last Holiday (2006), Hairspray (2007), Joyful Noise (2012), 22 Jump Street (2014) and Girls Trip (2017) and provided voice work in the Ice Age film series.

Latifah won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie for her depiction of blues artist Bessie Smith in the 2015 HBO film Bessie, which she also co-produced.

She played Carlotta Brown in the musical drama series Star from 2016 to 2019. She played Hattie McDaniel in the Hollywood miniseries in 2020. She has played the title role in CBS’ relaunch of the action drama The since 2021.

Who is Queen Latifah’s partner?

Queen Latifah’s partner is Eboni Nichols. The couple have been together since 2013 and they are still going strong. They while on the set of Dancing with the Stars and made their relationship official in 2013.

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