Lela Rochon

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1964 age 0

   Born

2. 1984 age 20

   CreditBreakin'

3. 1987 age 23

   CreditInto the Homeland

4. 1989 age 25

   CreditHarlem Nights

5. 1992 age 28

   CreditBoomerang

6. 1996 age 32

   CreditThe Chamber

7. 1998 age 34

   CreditKnock Off

8. 1999 age 35

   CreditAny Given Sunday

9. 2004 age 40

   CreditFirst Daughter

• BGBrian Grazer2 titles
• EMEddie Murphy2 titles
• JDJean-Claude Van Damme2 titles
• APAl Pacino1 title
• GRGianni Russo1 title
• JLJohn Logan1 title
• AEAaron Eckhart1 title
• ARAriana Richards1 title
• RCRichard Chew1 title
• PBPowers Boothe1 title

• Spouse

  • AFAntoine Fuqua
  • SHShabba-Doo

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

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  Photo:Antoine_Fuqua_Lela_Rochon.jpg : SPakhrin derivative work: MaterialscientistCC BY 2.0

• I didn’t read the book. I wasn’t a fan of the idea of playing a maid

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I didn’t really get it. I was like, ‘eh ok, I’m not really interested in that.'

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Sometimes you read a script and you just don’t know what it’s going to be

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I remember reading The Matrix — it’s techno-babble, it’s scientific, I don’t even understand what I’m reading.

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Well, thank you. Thank you. I think going back to your question, it’s a lot of politics involved with pictures now because you have a lot of male stars. And then it kind of became a thing in the early 2000s where they were forced to have, you know, non-Black female leads as co-stars. They became other races and other things. They take the big African American movie star and put him with a Latino girl, white girl, you know, and those roles kind of went like that, which is unfortunate, you know

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Well, I took this role because I read it and I couldn’t believe it was written for a woman and a Black woman because this character could be a man. And I was watching other women who were in sports You know, I love Your Honor. I love the character Mo on that. I loved Griselda with Sofia Vergara. There are a lot of like female gangster characters that I was seeing. And I didn’t feel like I had seen one that I could do. And when they called me and they sent me that script, I said, oh, my God, I love her. This is a stretch. This is challenging. This is something I haven’t done before.

  Lela Rochon, CC BY-SA 4.0