Sanaa Lathan

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1971-09-19 (54 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Sanaa Lathan

Biography

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 miniseries on Peacock, Naomi Hicks on Netflix's Hit & Run, Violet Jones in Nappily Ever After, Ashe Akino on Fox's drama Shots Fired, Deputy Director Natalie Austin in Now You See Me 2 (2016), Leah Vaughn in The Perfect Guy (2015), Jenelle Wilson on Showtim...

Acting

2004

2003

Out of Time

as Ann Merai Harrison

2023

Young. Wild. Free.

as Janice Huffman

1999

Life

as Daisy

2008

A Raisin in the Sun

as Beneatha Younger

2009

1998

Blade

as Vanessa

2000

Love & Basketball

as Monica Wright

2006

Something New

as Kenya McQueen

1999

The Best Man

as Robyn

1999

The Wood

as Alicia

2002

Brown Sugar

as Sidney 'Sid' Shaw

2000

Disappearing Acts

as Zora Banks

2011

Contagion

as Aubrey Cheever

2009

Powder Blue

as Diana

2014

Repentance

as Maggie

2024

2015

The Perfect Guy

as Leah Vaughn

2022

2005

The Golden Blaze

as Monica (voice)

2016

Now You See Me 2

as Deputy Director Natalie Austin

2016

Approaching the Unknown

as Captain Emily Maddox

1997

Drive

as Carolyn Brody

2017

American Assassin

as Irene Kennedy

2019

Native Son

as Trudy Thomas

2018

Nappily Ever After

as Violet Jones

1997

Miracle in the Woods

as Young Lilly

2021

With/In Volume 1

as (segment "Leap")

Production

2021

With/In Volume 1

as Director

2022

On the Come Up

as Director

2015

The Perfect Guy

as Executive Producer

2023

Young. Wild. Free.

as Executive Producer

2018

2022

With/In Volume 2

as Director

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Leap

as Director

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