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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
2024
Executive Producer
Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story reveals the extraordinary rise, sudden disappearance, and resurgence of trailblazing Black trans soul singer Jac...
You People
2023
as Fatima
A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.
Missing
2023
as Grace
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
2022
as Lucy Galloway
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
2020
as Catherine
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
2020
as Ellie Warren
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
2020
Producer
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
2020
as Eunice Garrett
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
2019
as Jennifer
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
2017
as Ms. Peggy
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
2017
as Cleo
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
2017
as Hillary Whitney
Follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Boardwalk, who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on unexpected and lifelong...
Keanu
2016
as Hannah
Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
The Single Moms Club
2014
as May Miller
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
The Best Man Holiday
2013
as Jordan Armstrong
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'
2011
as Self
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
2011
as Safiyah
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
2009
as Self
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
Featurette about the making of "Friday."
Gospel Hill
2008
as Mrs. Palmer
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?
2007
as Suzanne Persons
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
2007
as Annie
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
2006
as Sherri
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?
2005
as Suzanne Kingston
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
2004
as Lonette
A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.
Baadasssss!
2004
as Sandra
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
2003
as Self
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
2002
as Lou
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
2000
as Sherry Pierce
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
2000
as Karen
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
2000
as Abbie Halpert
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
2000
as Leslie
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
1999
as Nimi Da Silva
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
1999
as Jordan Armstrong
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
1999
as Rae
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
1999
as Donna Chadway
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
1999
as Myra
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
1998
as Carmen Jones
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
1997
as Robin (Bird)
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
1997
as Trudy
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
1997
as Nina Mosley
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
1995
as Debbie
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
1993
as Zora Mathews
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
1991
as Brandi
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
1989
as Fingers
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
1986
as Darla Perkins
A group of military brats uncovers a plot to steal base equipment.
Michael
N/A
as Katherine Jackson
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
N/A
as Debbie
The fourth and final installment in the 'Friday' franchise.