Janelle Monáe

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1985 age 0

   Born

2. 2016 age 31

   CreditHidden Figures

   CreditMoonlight

3. 2019 age 34

   CreditLady and the Tramp

4. 2022 age 37

   CreditGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

• MAMahershala Ali2 titles
• HZHans Zimmer1 title
• JHJessica Henwick1 title
• AOAfemo Omilami1 title
• JPJim Parsons1 title
• BPBrad Pitt1 title
• CBClancy Brown1 title
• RJRian Johnson1 title
• ENEdward Norton1 title
• JGJoseph Gordon-Levitt1 title

• Partner

  • TTTessa Thompson

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• That's the great thing about being an artist. Your job is to comfort, your job is to be the voice, your job is to bring awareness, your job is to be a rebel, .

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I've always wanted people to ask questions about the music. Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings. I appreciate that as a writer because sometimes the mystery, when it's gone, is not as interesting. I love the mystery behind things

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “Grandpapa and even Artis’s friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn’t true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work out that invisible balance so you don’t get crushed but also don’t float away was labor Artis didn’t always feel strong enough to do.

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “Return whole, my children, your eyes a constellation of stars. Full of the knowledge that I love you, that we are what we carry—the years, the nights, and the seconds, and all the spaces in between. It flows through us, flows from within us. This love cannot be stopped. It grows—and it must be free. The time to dream is a sacred thing, Trell. It heals, lifts us up. Ola, every child, not just my own, needs it. Our world demands it. You’ve got to dream a future before you can build a future. Together, let us begin this dreaming awak

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• “Grandpapa and even Artis's friends believed that New Dawn was the most dangerous thing in their world. But Artis knew that wasn't true. Hope was. Having too much, having too little. Trying to work out that invisible balance so you don't get crushed but also don't float away was labor Artis didn't always feel strong enough to do. It hurt too much to hope sometimes. Better to just be, take whatever comes as gracefully as you can, 'cuz it's coming anyway, whether you want it or not.

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I feel myself becoming the fearless person i have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No But I'M constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

  Janelle Monae, CC BY-SA 4.0