Nia Long

• Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
• Birthday: October 30, 1970

This stunningly beautiful, rising black actress first began her acting career as a teenager, appearing in several stage productions, including "227", which was the basis for the NBC sitcom of the same name on which she made a guest appearance. She landed a role in "The B.R.A.T. Patrol" (ABC, 1986), a "Disney Sunday Movie" and appearances in music videos before breaking onto the big screen in "Buried Alive" (1990). In John Singleton's acclaimed "Boyz N the Hood" (1991), Long played the marria…more