Sanaa Lathan

Person · Open Library

Works

1

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · New York City, New York, USA

Sanaa McCoy Lathan (/səˈnɑ/ born September 19, 1971) is an American stage, film, television, and voice actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. She earned bachelor's degree in English from University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in drama from Yale. She is best known for her roles as Robyn in The Best Man films and subsequent TV…

Known for

• The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat — Barbara Jean Maxberry2024
• Young. Wild. Free. — Janice Huffman2023
• On the Come Up — Jay2022
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self2022
• The Best Man: The Final Chapters — Robyn2022
• With/In Volume 1 — (segment "Leap")2021
• Solos — Nia (voice)2021
• Hit & Run — Naomi Hicks2021
• Native Son — Trudy Thomas2019
• Lost in America — Self2019

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

20

Total plays

157

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)¹

   · 2021 · cited 2,489x

2. Discovery of cross-reactive probes and polymorphic CpGs in the Illumina Infinium HumanMethylation450 microarray

   · 2013 · cited 1,421x

3. Religiousness and Spiritual Support Among Advanced Cancer Patients and Associations With End-of-Life Treatment Preferences and Quality of Life

   · 2007 · cited 747x

4. Standard and Increased-Dose BEACOPP Chemotherapy Compared with COPP-ABVD for Advanced Hodgkin's Disease

   · 2003 · cited 691x

5. Patient-Clinician Communication: American Society of Clinical Oncology Consensus Guideline

   · 2017 · cited 549x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

• “It crossed all racial and cultural lines.”
• “I almost made my Broadway debut much sooner”
• “The more vivid an imagination you have, [the more it] brings reality to the story that you’re telling, and the more the audience will be brought in”
• “A person who knows how to act can better direct an actor”
• “she is every mother regardless of race”
• “sometimes I think people cast people on an intuitive level, they don’t even know they’re doing it, but this has happened a lot where you have a real connection with the person”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Father

Stan Lathan

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Hair colour

black hair

Image

Sanaa Lathan Comic-Con 2011.jpg

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