| Fun Facts About Queen Latifah | - Her older brother Lance Owens, who was a police officer, died in an accident on the motorcycle Latifah bought for him as a present. She still wears the motorcycle key around her neck.
- Impressive fact:First female rapper to be nominated for an Academy Award.
- Queen played power forward on the Irvington Public High School girls' basketball team and led them to two New Jersey state championships.
- She was nicknamed "Latifah" (Arabic for delicate and sensitive) by a cousin while she was in her teens.
- Queen Latifah Became the first hip-hop artist honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. [4 January 2006]
- She Had not done any musical theatre since high school prior to her role in Chicago (2002).
- Queen is of both African American and Native American descent.
- Out of all her roles to date (2008), her personal favorite is Cleopatra Sims from Set it off(1996).
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