Sanaa Lathan

American actress

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2025 Sanaa Lathan received two NAACP Image Award nominations: Outstanding Actress in a Limited Television Series for 'The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat' and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Television Series for 'Young. Wild. Free.'
2024 Appeared in 2 episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Sibby Sanders
2024 Cast as Barbara Jean in 'The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat'
2023 Sanaa Lathan was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited Series or Dramatic Special for 'The Best Man: The Final Chapters'.
2023 Executive produced 'Young. Wild. Free.' where she played Janice Huffman
2022 Starred in main cast of The Best Man: The Final Chapters as Robyn Stewart
2022 Directed 'On The Come Up' where she played Jayda 'Jay' Jackson
2022 On the Come Up premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
2022 Made her directorial debut with the film On the Come Up and received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her guest role in Succession.
2021 Directed a segment called 'Leap' in 'With/In: Volume 1'
2021 Directed the film adaptation of Angie Thomas's novel On the Come Up.
January 2021 Cast in season 3 of Succession as Lisa Arthur, earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
2020 Began recurring voice role as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in Harley Quinn animated series
2019 Sanaa Lathan was nominated for two NAACP Image Awards: Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for 'Nappily Ever After' and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for 'The Affair'.
2018 Joined main cast of The Affair in season 4 as Janelle
2018 Starred in and produced 'Nappily Ever After'
2017 Starred in main cast of Shots Fired as Ashe Akino
2017 Played CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy in 'American Assassin'
2016 Sanaa Lathan won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture for her role in 'The Perfect Guy'.
2016 Sanaa Lathan voiced the character Alexa "Lex" Woods in three video games: Zen Pinball 2, Pinball FX 2, and Pinball FX 3
2015 Sanaa Lathan starred in and executive produced 'The Perfect Guy'
2014 Sanaa Lathan participated in the UNICEF: World version of 'Imagine', appearing as herself in the multi-artist collaborative music video
2014 Sanaa Lathan voiced the character Donna Tubbs in the video game Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff
2013 Reprised her role as Robyn in The Best Man Holiday and continued voicing Donna Tubbs in The Cleveland Show and Family Guy.
2012 Sanaa Lathan won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actress for 'By The Way, Meet Vera Stark' and was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award in the same category.
2012 Joined main cast of Boss as Mona Fredricks in season 2
2011 Starred in television film Tilda as Sasha Litt
2010 Began recurring voice role as Donna Tubbs in Family Guy, continuing to present
2010 Starred in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London.

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