# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sanaa-lathan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:25:45.647Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sanaa-lathan"
name: "Sanaa Lathan"
slug: "sanaa-lathan"
description: "Sanaa McCoy Lathan is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. Her career began after she appeared in the shows In the House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue, and Moesha. Lathan later garnered further prominence after starring in the 1998 superhero film Blade, which followed with film roles in The Best Man (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Disappearing Acts (2000), and Brown Sugar (2002)."
tagline: "American actress"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sanaa_Lathan_Comic-Con_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1971-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             11.33946856123209
  historical:           23.84468666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "justsanaa"
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    handle:    "sanaalathan"
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    handle:    "SanaaLathan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm0005125"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sanaa Lathan"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump