Nia Long

Nia Long

1970-10-30 Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA 48 Credits

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...

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Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

2024

Executive Producer

7.5
Producing

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story reveals the extraordinary rise, sudden disappearance, and resurgence of trailblazing Black trans soul singer Jac...

You People

You People

2023

as Fatima

5.6
Acting

A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.

Missing

Missing

2023

as Grace

7.4
Acting

When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuc...

Look Both Ways

Look Both Ways

2022

as Lucy Galloway

6.9
Acting

On the night of her college graduation, Natalie's life splits into parallel realities after she takes a pregnancy test. What will life and love bring?

Life in a Year

Life in a Year

2020

as Catherine

8.2
Acting

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Fatal Affair

Fatal Affair

2020

as Ellie Warren

5.6
Acting

After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus. ...

Fatal Affair

Fatal Affair

2020

Producer

5.6
Producing

After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage with her husband Marcus. ...

The Banker

The Banker

2020

as Eunice Garrett

7.6
Acting

In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American Dream. Nicholas Hou...

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

47 Meters Down: Uncaged

2019

as Jennifer

5.7
Acting

Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement turns into a jolt of terror as th...

Roxanne Roxanne

Roxanne Roxanne

2017

as Ms. Peggy

6.0
Acting

The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge projects. At the age of 14, Roxanne S...

Lemon

Lemon

2017

as Cleo

4.5
Acting

Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him, and his own family singles him out as a...

Beaches

Beaches

2017

as Hillary Whitney

6.1
Acting

Follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Boardwalk, who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on unexpected and lifelong...

Keanu

Keanu

2016

as Hannah

6.1
Acting

Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

The Single Moms Club

The Single Moms Club

2014

as May Miller

6.0
Acting

A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.

The Best Man Holiday

The Best Man Holiday

2013

as Jordan Armstrong

6.5
Acting

When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances t...

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood'

2011

as Self

2.0
Acting

A wonderful retrospective supplement that features much of the primary cast cast as well as Writer/Director John Singleton looking back at the picture...

Mooz-lum

Mooz-lum

2011

as Safiyah

4.6
Acting

Thanks to a strict Muslim upbringing that largely shielded him from the outside world, Tariq's first year of college proves transformative. That is, u...

Good Hair

Good Hair

2009

as Self

6.6
Acting

An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories an...

‘Friday’ Straight Up

2009

as Self

8.0
Acting

Featurette about the making of "Friday."

Gospel Hill

Gospel Hill

2008

as Mrs. Palmer

4.9
Acting

Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays John Malcolm, the son of a slain...

Are We Done Yet?

Are We Done Yet?

2007

as Suzanne Persons

5.8
Acting

Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But their idea of a dream home is disturbed by a...

Premonition

Premonition

2007

as Annie

6.3
Acting

A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at h...

Big Momma's House 2

Big Momma's House 2

2006

as Sherri

5.8
Acting

FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must...

Are We There Yet?

Are We There Yet?

2005

as Suzanne Kingston

5.7
Acting

The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve...

Alfie

Alfie

2004

as Lonette

5.8
Acting

A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.

Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!

2004

as Sandra

6.5
Acting

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playin...

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend

2003

as Self

4.5
Acting

Cast and crew offer up a nice overview piece, discussing the picture's authenticity, real life in the time of "Boyz n the Hood," the parallels between...

Sightings: Heartland Ghost

Sightings: Heartland Ghost

2002

as Lou

4.6
Acting

The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.

Big Momma's House

Big Momma's House

2000

as Sherry Pierce

5.8
Acting

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate...

If These Walls Could Talk 2

If These Walls Could Talk 2

2000

as Karen

6.5
Acting

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Ed...

Boiler Room

Boiler Room

2000

as Abbie Halpert

6.7
Acting

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as ...

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy

2000

as Leslie

6.3
Acting

A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings, jealousy, fatherhood...

The Secret Laughter of Women

The Secret Laughter of Women

1999

as Nimi Da Silva

4.7
Acting

Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful Nigerian si...

The Best Man

The Best Man

1999

as Jordan Armstrong

6.6
Acting

After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new book is loosely based ...

Held Up

Held Up

1999

as Rae

5.6
Acting

What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in the desert where he gets car...

Stigmata

Stigmata

1999

as Donna Chadway

6.3
Acting

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus re...

In Too Deep

In Too Deep

1999

as Myra

6.3
Acting

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold o...

Butter

Butter

1998

as Carmen Jones

2.5
Acting

Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. Th...

Soul Food

Soul Food

1997

as Robin (Bird)

6.3
Acting

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) ...

Hav Plenty

Hav Plenty

1997

as Trudy

5.5
Acting

Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his friend. When she invites him to her ho...

Love Jones

Love Jones

1997

as Nina Mosley

7.5
Acting

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if ...

Friday

Friday

1995

as Debbie

7.1
Acting

Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.

Made in America

Made in America

1993

as Zora Mathews

5.5
Acting

A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.

Boyz n the Hood

Boyz n the Hood

1991

as Brandi

7.6
Acting

In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries to raise his son Tre...

Buried Alive

Buried Alive

1989

as Fingers

4.1
Acting

A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by ...

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

1986

as Darla Perkins

5.6
Acting

A group of military brats uncovers a plot to steal base equipment.

Michael

Michael

N/A

as Katherine Jackson

Acting

An in-depth portrayal of Michael Jackson, a complicated man, who became the King of Pop. The biopic will bring to life Jackson’s most iconic performan...

Last Friday

Last Friday

N/A

as Debbie

Acting

The fourth and final installment in the 'Friday' franchise.