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Nia Long was born in Brooklyn which is located in New York region, in a family of African descent. Her mother Talida was a teacher in the school, and her father was a teacher, sculptor and poet. Her pen name on the stage, is the name of one of the seven days of Afro –American Film Festival, and while translating means “the ambition”. Her parents divorced by the time she was two years old and that is why she relocated with her mother to Iowa city, where her mother was studying the art of Drawing. When she was seven they relocated to LA. Little Nitra was studying in the Roman Catholic school, which was called “The academy of Saint Marie” where her main subjects were ballet, and jazz. In 1989 she graduated the Westchester High School, and relocated to NY where she was going through financial problems with her mother, that is why her mother was doing any job she was offered to in order to feed the family. Later Nia went to the school of art performance, where her teacher was Betty Bridges. She performed in a variety of famous TV shows, till she got a role in a comedy. Later she started directing the music videos of rap stars. In 2000 she entered the list of most beautiful people on the planet according to People magazine. The same year in November she bore a son from her boyfriend Massey Dorsey. They were engaged and were planning the wedding, but some time later they decided to break up.

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Here you can learn about the movies Nia Long acted in. You can see the names of the movies, their budget, years of release and the money gained from the screening of the certain movie. It is always interesting to know.

Movies & Videos	Budget	Year	Opening weekend	US box Office
Alfie - Lonette	$60M	2004	$6.22M	$13.4M
Big Momma's House 2 - Sherri	$40M	2006	$27.7M	$70.2M
Are We There Yet? - Suzanne Kingston	$32M	2005	$18.6M	$82.3M
Stigmata - Donna Chadway	$32M	1999	$18.3M	$50M
Big Momma's House - Sherry Pierce	$30M	2000	$25.7M	$118M
Made in America - Zora Mathews	$22M	1993		$44.9M
Premonition - Annie	$20M	2007	$17.6M	$47.9M
The Best Man - Jordan Armstrong	$9M	1999	$9.03M	$34.1M
Held Up - Rae	$8M	1999	$1.91M	$4.69M
Boiler Room - Abbie Halpert	$8M	2000	$6.72M	$16.9M
Soul Food - Bird	$7.5M	1997	$11.2M	$43.5M
In Too Deep - Myra	$7M	1999	$4.22M	$14M
Gospel Hill - Mrs. Palmer	$6M	2008
Boyz n the Hood - Brandi	$6M	1991		$57.5M
Friday - Debbie	$3.5M	1995		$27.9M
The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy - Leslie	$1M	2000	$110K	$1.74M
Hav Plenty - Trudy	$650K	1997	$1.1M	$2.3M
Buried Alive - Fingers		1990
Love Jones - Nina Mosley, Soundtrack (performer: "Lyric: I Am Looking at Music", "Poem No. 3")		1997	$3.91M	$12.5M
The Secret Laughter of Women - Nimi Da Silva		1999