Queen Latifah
Living Out Loud (1998)The best rappers-turned-actors: Queen Latifah
REAL NAME Dana Owens
RAP PERSONA Regal figure who's all about female empowerment
SCREEN CHARACTER Liz Bailey, the house performer at a New York jazz club, a woman whose pattern of attraction to gay men feeds her torch-song heartbreak
WHY SHE'S GREAT Her robust renditions of such cabaret standards as Billy Strayhorn's ''Lush Life'' are showstoppers, but even her outpourings of after-hours romantic misery help her steal the film from top-billed Holly Hunter (as a newly divorced socialite who seeks solace at Liz's nightspot).
EW VIDEO GRADE A- (Read the review)
IF YOU LIKE THIS Latifah displays similar scene-stealing skills as one of four desperate women who turn to robbing banks in the ensemble drama Set It Off, holds her own as a comic opposite Steve Martin in Bringing Down the House, and earned an Oscar nomination as the prison matron in Chicago.
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