Sanaa Lathan is a famous actress. She is mostly known for her appearances in such movies as Alien vs. Predator, The Best Man, Brown Sugar, The Family That Preys and Love & Basketball. What is more, Sanaa also performs on Broadway and was nominated for Tony Award. During her career as an actress Lathan has won such wards as BET Award, Image Awards, Theatre World Award and Lucille Lortel Awards. She also has been nominated for different kind of awards several times. So how rich is Sanaa Lathan? It has been made a statement that Lathan’s net worth is 4 million dollars, but it is probably not the end and it might become higher in the future.
Sanaa Lathan Net Worth $4 Million
Sanaa McCoy Lathan, or better known as Sanaa Lathan, was born in 1971, in New York City. From the very young age Sanaa was familiar with acting, as her mother was an actress and performed on Broadway and her father was a producer on such shows as Def Comedy Jam and Sanford & Son. Sanaa finished University of California, Berkeley and Yale University. At Yale University she studied drama and gained more experience in performing. Sanaa career as an actress began with roles in Family Matters, Moesha, In the House and NYPD Blue. Alhough these roles were not that popular it still added up to Sanaa Lathan’s net worth. Later Sanna together with Wesley Snipes acted in Blade. After that Lathan also acted in The Best Man, Life and The Wood. During the acting in these movies she had an opportunity to work with Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Omar Epps, Richard T. Jones and many others. These appearances of course affected the growth of Sanaa’s net worth.
One of the most important roles for Lathan was the role in Love & Basketball, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. For this role Sanaa won NAACP Image Award, BET Award and Independent Spirit Award. Other movies that Lathan acted in include Out of Time, The Golden Blaze, Something New, Powder Blue, Wonderful World and many others. Her latest appearances are in The Best Man Holiday and Repentance. All these appearances had a huge impact on the growth of Sanaa Lathan’s net worth. As it was mentioned before, Lathan not only acts in movies and television shows but she also sometimes appear on Broadway. She was a part of the plays A Raisin in the Sun and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Although she is not that famous on Broadway as she is in the movie industry it still added up to Lathan’s net worth. Finally, it could be said that Sanaa is a successful actress who gained respect and acclaim during her career as an actress. Lathan is now 42 years old, and there are still a lot of opportunities for her. As she is a very talented and beautiful actress, she might receive more suggestions in the future to act in different kind of movies, and that is when Sanaa Lathan’s net worth might grow.
BET Award, Image Awards, Theatre World Award, Lucille Lortel Awards, NAACP Image Award, Independent Spirit Award
Nominations
Black Reel Award for Best Actress, Tony Award, Drama Desk Award (2012)
Movies
"Blade" (1998), "Love & Basketbal" (2000), "Out of Time" (2003), "The Golden Blaze" (2005), "Something New" (2006), "Powder Blue" (2009), "Wonderful World" (2009), "The Best Man Holiday" (2013), "Repentance" (2014)
TV Shows
"LateLine" (1998-1999), "The Cleveland Show" (2009-2013), "A Raisin in the Sun" (2008), "Shots Fired" (2017)
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I grew up in the business. My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer, she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.
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Appearing on Broadway as Beneatha in "Raisin In The Sun". [April 2004]
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Graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a B.A. in English.
Voted one of Ebony magazine's 55 Most Beautiful People. [2000]
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Says her name is pronounced Sa-NA, "like Sinatra without the tra".
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Her name is Swahili for "work of art".
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Yale School of Drama graduate.
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Sanaa was raised partly in Beverly Hills with her father, director Stan Lathan, and partly in New York with her mother, Eleanor McCoy, a Broadway stage actress.
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