• Your Turn: Our readers' choices for the 'A-Team' cast
• Casting Call: We pick the stars for next year's 'A-Team' movie

• Her birthname is Dana Owens.
• Known as the "First Lady of Rap."
• She started her music career beat-boxing for the rap group Ladies Fresh.
• Queen Latifah released her debut album, 'Wrath of my Madness,' when she was 18 years old.
• 'Latifah' is Arabic for delicate and sensitive.
• In 1995, Queen Latifah was the victim of a carjacking and a friend was shot.
• She was arrested in 1996 for assaulting a photographer, carrying a loaded weapon and possession of marijuana.
• Before becoming a rap star, she worked at Burger King.
• Her older brother, police officer Lance Owens, died in a motorcycle accident, riding a bike Queen Latifah bought him. She still wears the motorcycle key around her neck.
• Her rap music is inspired by jazz and soul roots.
• She has her own management company called Flavor Unit Entertainment. It represents stars like L.L. Cool J, Naughty By Nature, Monica and SWV.

Living Out Loud (1998)
She can do more than rap. This actress played the jazz club singer in Living Out Loud.

1. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
2. The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
3. What Happens in Vegas (2008)
4. Mad Money (2008)
5. The Perfect Holiday (2007)
6. Hairspray (2007)
7. Arctic Tale (2007)
8. Life Support (2007)
9. Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
10. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
11. Last Holiday (2006)
12. Talking To Heaven (2006)
13. Living Single: The Complete First Season (2006)
14. Beauty Shop (2005)
15. The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005)
16. Taxi (2004)
17. The Cookout (2004)
18. Sesame Street: What's The Name Of That Song? (2004)
19. Scary Movie 3 (2003)
20. Bringing Down The House (2003)
21. Chicago (2002)
22. Brown Sugar (2002)
23. The Country Bears (2002)
24. Mama Africa (2002)
25. The Bone Collector (1999)
26. Sphere (1998)
27. Living Out Loud (1998)
28. Hoodlum (1997)
29. Set It Off (1996)
30. My Life (1993)
31. House Party 2 (1991)
32. Jungle Fever (1991)
33. Living Single: The Complete Second Season

See Star Profiles