American screen and stage actress from a noted family, the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. Her career began after she appeared in the television shows In the House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue and Moesha. Lathan later garnered further prominence after starring in the 1998 superhero film Blade, then with film roles in The Best Man (1999), Love & Basketball (2000), Disappearing Acts (2000) and Brown Sugar (2002).
In 2004, Lathan’s performance in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, earned her a nomination at the Tony Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Play. Following this, she played the role of Alexa “Lex” Woods in the 2004 movie Alien vs. Predator. In 2008, she landed a leading role in film The Family That Preys by Tyler Perry. Lathan returned to theatre work in 2010, starring in the all-black performance of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre in London. She reprised her role as Robyn in the Christmas-themed sequel of The Best Man, in The Best Man Holiday (2013). In 2022, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, for her work on the television series Succession.
As a voice actress, from (2009 to 2013), she voiced Donna Tubbs in The Cleveland Show and in all concurrent and subsequent Family Guy appearances, as well as Catwoman on Harley Quinn.
Link to Wikipedia biography