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Sanaa Lathan
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Born: Sep 19, 1971
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Sanaa Lathan was born in New York, New York, USA. Her mother Eleanor McCoy performed on Broadway with Eartha Kitt and her father Stan Lathan worked behind the scenes in television for PBS. She was exposed to the life of entertainment and stars at a very early age, which had a profound impact upon her life. As a child she was nurtured in athletics and the arts through training in Gymnastics and Dance.
Being academically competitive and wanting to attain proficiency to become a successful professional, Sanaa attended the University of California at Berkley in the liberal arts division studying English. While an undergraduate, she continued to nurture the latent desire to express herself through the arts by performing with the Black Theatre Workshop. She was encouraged to apply to the Masters program at the Yale School of Drama by a recruiter. Through the three years of the training and skill attainment that Yale provided, she was able to visualize how she could effectively combine her talents, giftedness and intelligence to express herself through this powerfully expressive art form called acting. She gained a love for the stage and the drama greats like Shakespeare by performing in school productions such as, 'Othello', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The Winter's Tale', and 'The Twelfth Night'.
She began her career performing in Off -Broadway productions such as 'Por' Knockers' and 'A Movie Star Has to Be Born in Black and White'. After seeing her perform in a number of productions and realizing her skill and ambitions, her father counseled and encouraged her to move to California to get into the hot bed of action that Hollywood. She was able to get notable appearances in television on shows such as In the House, Moseha, NYPD Blue, Family Matters and the made for TV movie Miracle in the Woods playing the younger character opposite Della Reese. She even obtained television series regular roles in two very short-lived sitcoms -- Built to Last that never got national distribut...[MORE]
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Sanaa Lathan Nude and Sexy
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