Nia Long

Q: Has Nia Long won any awards?

Nia Long has received several nominations throughout her career, including NAACP Image Awards. However, she has not won an Academy Award.

Q: What was Nia Long's first film?

Nia Long's first film role was in 'Boys n the Hood', released in 1991. This role significantly launched her career in Hollywood.

Q: How many children does Nia Long have?

Nia Long has two children: Massai Zhivago Dorsey II and Kez Sunday Udoka. She is known to be a devoted mother.

Q: What is Nia Long's estimated net worth?

Nia Long's estimated net worth is approximately $13 million, reflecting her successful career in film and television.

Q: What genres is Nia Long known for?

Nia Long is primarily known for her work in romantic comedies and dramas. She is recognized for portraying strong female characters.

Q: What is a notable milestone in Nia Long's career?

A notable milestone in Nia Long's career was her role in 'The Best Man' and its sequel, 'The Best Man Holiday', both of which were critical and commercial successes.

Q: Has Nia Long worked in television?

Yes, Nia Long has had a successful television career, appearing in series such as 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and 'Empire', showcasing her versatility as an actress.

Known for

Big Momma’s House (2000)

IMDb 5.2 / 10

2000 / Action, Adventure / 98mins

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...

Friday (1995)

IMDb 7.2 / 10

1995 / Comedy, Drama / 91 min

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

Name

Nia Long

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

30 October 1970, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Spouses

Ime Udoka (2015–2022)

Children

2 (Massai Zhivago Dorsey II, Kez Sunday Udoka)

Parents

Talita Long, Doughtry Long

Estimated Net Worth

$13 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael	Self	Not rated
2026	Movie Michael The story of Michael Jackson, one of the most influential artists the world has ever known, and his life beyond...	Katherine Jackson	TMDB 8.7 / 10
2025	TV Number One on the Call Sheet Some of Hollywood's biggest stars reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles. In candid interviews, they shine a light on...	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2023	Movie You People A new couple and their families reckon with modern love amid culture clashes, societal expectations and generational differences.	Fatima	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2023	Movie Missing When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by...	Grace	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2022	TV The Best Man: The Final Chapters Catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch as their relationships evolve and past grievances resurface...	Jordan Armstrong	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV The Jennifer Hudson Show Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2022	Movie Look Both Ways On the night of her college graduation, Natalie's life splits into parallel realities after she takes a pregnancy test. What...	Lucy Galloway	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2020	Movie Life in a Year A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire...	Catherine	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2020	Movie Fatal Affair After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage...	Ellie Warren	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2020	TV #blackAF A father takes an irreverent and honest approach to parenting and relationships.	Lavette	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2020	Movie The Banker In the 1960s, two entrepreneurs hatch an ingenious business plan to fight for housing integration—and equal access to the American...	Eunice Garrett	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2019	TV The Kelly Clarkson Show Kelly Clarkson presents the biggest newsmakers and names in film, television and music; as well as emerging new talent and...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie 47 Meters Down: Uncaged Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city. Once inside, their rush of excitement...	Jennifer	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2017	TV Steve After ending his Chicago-based show, Steve Harvey heads to Los Angeles to host a new weekday syndicated program aiming to...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	TV Dear White People Students of color navigate the daily slights and slippery politics of life at an Ivy League college that's not nearly...	Neika Hobbs	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2017	Movie Roxanne Roxanne The most feared battle emcee in the early 1980s in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenager from the Queensbridge...	Ms. Peggy	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Lemon Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to leave him,...	Cleo	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2017	Movie Beaches Follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Boardwalk, who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on...	Hillary Whitney	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2016	TV Uncle Buck Based on the hit movie of the same name, Uncle Buck is a fun-loving but irresponsible guy who needs a...	Cindy Russell	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie Keanu Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.	Hannah	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	TV Empire A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his...	Giuliana	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	TV The Divide The Divide is a 2014 legal drama that aired on WE tv. The first season consisted of eight hour-long episodes....	Billie Page	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2014	Movie The Single Moms Club A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.	May Miller	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Best Man Holiday When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten...	Jordan Armstrong	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	TV House of Lies Charming, fast talking Marty Kaan and his crack team of management consultants know how to play the corporate game better...	Tamara	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2011	Movie The Enduring Significance of 'Boyz n the Hood' A wonderful retrospective supplement that features much of the primary cast cast as well as Writer/Director John Singleton looking back...	Self	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2011	Movie Mooz-lum Thanks to a strict Muslim upbringing that largely shielded him from the outside world, Tariq's first year of college proves...	Safiyah	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2009	Movie Good Hair An exposé of comic proportions that only Chris Rock could pull off, GOOD HAIR visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles,...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2009	TV Celebrity Ghost Stories Compelling, surprising and downright spooky — celebrities share their real-life personal encounters with the paranormal in each one-hour special. From...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2009	TV The Cleveland Show The bizarre adventures of Cleveland Brown and his family.	Roberta Tubbs (voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	TV NCIS: Los Angeles The exploits of the Los Angeles–based Office of Special Projects (OSP), an elite division of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service...	Shay Mosley	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2009	Movie ‘Friday’ Straight Up Featurette about the making of "Friday."	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	TV The Wendy Williams Show Radio personality Wendy Williams is the host to her own live syndicated talk show. Wendy injects her television series with...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2008	Movie Gospel Hill Gospel Hill tells the intersecting story of two men in the fictional South Carolina town of Julia. Danny Glover plays...	Mrs. Palmer	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2007	TV Big Shots Four friends are at the top of their game...until the women in their lives enter the room. Lines between boardroom...	Katie Graham	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	Movie Are We Done Yet? Newlyweds Nick and Suzanne decide to move to the suburbs to provide a better life for their two kids. But...	Suzanne Persons	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2007	Movie Premonition A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously awakens the next morning...	Annie	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2006	Movie Big Momma's House 2 FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now...	Sherri	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2005	Movie Are We There Yet? The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly...	Suzanne Kingston	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie Alfie A tale of a philosophical womanizer who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence.	Lonette	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2004	TV Boston Legal Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a...	Vanessa Walker	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2004	TV The Tony Danza Show The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was...	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	Movie Baadasssss! Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing...	Sandra	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	TV America Beyond the Color Line Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2003	Movie Friendly Fire: Making of an Urban Legend Cast and crew offer up a nice overview piece, discussing the picture's authenticity, real life in the time of "Boyz...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2002	Movie Sightings: Heartland Ghost The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may...	Lou	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2002	TV Everwood After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small...	Cassie	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2000	TV 106 & Park 106 & Park is an American Hip Hop and R&B music video show set up in a countdown format, that...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2000	Movie Big Momma's House When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an...	Sherry Pierce	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2000	Movie If These Walls Could Talk 2 The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who...	Karen	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2000	Movie Boiler Room A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track...	Abbie Halpert	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2000	Movie The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy A close-knit group of gay friends share the emotional roller coster of life, relationships, the death of friends, new beginnings,...	Leslie	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1999	Movie The Secret Laughter of Women Oscar-winner Colin Firth stars in this heart-warming cross-cultural romantic comedy set in the idyllic South of France. Nimi, a beautiful...	Nimi Da Silva	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1999	Movie The Best Man After writing a soon-to-be bestselling novel, writer and committed bachelor Harper attempts to hide the fact that his saucy new...	Jordan Armstrong	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie Held Up What should have been a romantic getaway turns into one hilarious debacle after another when Michael's woman dumps him in...	Rae	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1999	TV Third Watch The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen,...	Sasha Monroe	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1999	TV Judging Amy Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV....	Andrea Solomon	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Stigmata A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the...	Donna Chadway	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1999	Movie In Too Deep Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined...	Myra	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1998	Movie Butter Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and...	Carmen Jones	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1997	Movie Soul Food Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when sisters Teri, Bird and Maxine start bringing their problems to the...	Robin (Bird)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1997	Movie Hav Plenty Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very beautiful woman and his...	Trudy	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1997	Movie Love Jones Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While...	Nina Mosley	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	TV Moesha The everyday life of Moesha Mitchell, a vivacious young woman juggling romance, school, ever-changing family dynamics, and friendships.	Babysitter	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1995	TV Live Shot Live Shot is an American drama television show starring Jeff Yagher that aired in fall 1995 on UPN. The show...	Ramona Greer	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1995	Movie Friday Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and...	Debbie	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1994	TV ER ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and...	Christy Wilson	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1993	TV Late Night with Conan O'Brien Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition...	Self - Guest	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1993	TV Living Single Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993,...	Stacey	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1993	Movie Made in America A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that wasn't bad enough, he's white.	Zora Mathews	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1991	Movie Boyz n the Hood In the middle of the Los Angeles ghetto, drugs, robberies and shootings dominate everyday life. During these times, Furious tries...	Brandi	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1990	TV The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Will, a street-smart teenager, moves from the tough streets of West Philly to posh Bel-Air to live with his Uncle...	Claudia	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1989	Movie Buried Alive A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed...	Fingers	TMDB 4.3 / 10
1986	Movie The B.R.A.T. Patrol A group of military brats uncovers a plot to steal base equipment.	Darla Perkins	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1975	TV People's Choice Awards An American awards show recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the general public and fans.	Self - Presenter	TMDB 9.2 / 10
1954	TV The Wonderful World of Disney Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the...	Darla Perkins	TMDB 7.9 / 10
TBA	TV Unsung Hollywood Shining a spotlight on ground-breaking artists and entertainers who’ve devoted their lives to making their mark in movies, television, comedy...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Are They Gone Yet? Nick faces his biggest challenge yet… grandkids.	Suzanne Persons	Not rated
TBA	Movie Don't Ever Wonder Project is inspired by R&B singer Maxwell's debut album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2024	Movie Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story reveals the extraordinary rise, sudden disappearance, and resurgence of trailblazing Black trans soul...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2020	Movie Fatal Affair After a brief encounter with David Hammond, an old college friend, successful lawyer Ellie Warren tries to mend her marriage...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.7 / 10
TBA	Movie Don't Ever Wonder Project is inspired by R&B singer Maxwell's debut album, Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite.	Producer Production	Not rated

Don't Stop Til' You Get Enough: The Making of Michael

2026

Michael

2026 / TMDB 8.7

You People

2023 / TMDB 5.6

Missing

2023 / TMDB 7.4

Look Both Ways

2022 / TMDB 6.8

Life in a Year

2020 / TMDB 8.2

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