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Queen Latifah

Posted December 19, 2007 by Eric Levin, Lois Levine

The multifaceted Newark native first showed her acting chops on the 1993 sitcom Living Single. She has dozens of movie and TV appearances to her credit, a 2002 Best Supporting Actress nomination for Chicago, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, bestowed last year. But what sets the former Dana Elaine Owens apart is her own potent material, delivered in the macho medium of rap. “I’m too slick to slip up or get tricked by the shady type,” she warned would-be Romeos in “Latifah’s Had It Up 2 Here.” Don’t mess with the Queen.

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