Nia Long

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1970-10-30 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Nia Long

Biography

Nia Long (born October 30, 1970) is an American actress and occasional music video director. She is best known for her roles in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Third Watch, and the films Soul Food, Love Jones, The Best Man, Big Momma's House, and Are We There Yet?   Long was born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Her family is of Afro-Trinidadian descent. Her name, Nia, is one of the seven days of Kwanzaa, which means purpose in Swahili. Long's parents divorced when she was two years old, and she and her mother moved to Iowa City, Iowa. They subsequently moved to a South Los Angeles neighborhood when Long was seven. Long's f...

Acting

1991

2007

Are We Done Yet?

as Suzanne Persons

1999

Stigmata

as Donna Chadway

1995

Friday

as Debbie

2008

Gospel Hill

as Mrs. Palmer

2009

Good Hair

as Self

1989

Buried Alive

as Fingers

2006

1999

2005

Are We There Yet?

as Suzanne Kingston

1993

Made in America

as Zora Mathews

2004

Alfie

as Lonette

2000

Big Momma's House

as Sherry Pierce

2007

Premonition

as Annie

1997

Love Jones

as Nina Mosley

2004

Baadasssss!

as Sandra

2000

Boiler Room

as Abbie Halpert

1986

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

as Darla Perkins

1997

Soul Food

as Robin (Bird)

1999

The Best Man

as Jordan Armstrong

2011

Mooz-lum

as Safiyah

1999

Held Up

as Rae

2023

You People

as Fatima

1998

Butter

as Carmen Jones

2013

The Best Man Holiday

as Jordan Armstrong

1999

2014

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Michael

as Katherine Jackson

2016

Keanu

as Hannah

2017

Roxanne Roxanne

as Ms. Peggy

2017

Beaches

as Hillary Whitney

2017

Lemon

as Cleo

2020

Life in a Year

as Catherine

1997

Hav Plenty

as Trudy

2020

The Banker

as Eunice Garrett

2020

Fatal Affair

as Ellie Warren

2023

Missing

as Grace

2022

Look Both Ways

as Lucy Galloway

Production

2024

2020

Fatal Affair

as Producer

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