Queen Latifah s Guide to Turning Your Dreams Into Realities In The Envelope: The Actors Podcast

Someone as prolific and consistently stellar as Queen Latifah needs no introduction. At every surprising turn of her career as an actor, musician, and producer, shes used an exacting work ethic and irrepressible enthusiasm to inspire women like her. There were no blueprints for a lot of what I was doing, she says of her beginnings in the music and filmmaking industries. How has she persevered for so long You have to fail, she advises. I, luckily, was thrown out there in enough things to fail and cry and get up and fail and cry. After blazing trails as one of the first women in jazzrap at age 17, Queen Latifah refused pigeonholing in the biz, getting her start onscreen in Spike Lees, JungleFever and Will Smiths The Fresh Prince of BelAir. Shes since starred in Living Single, Set It Off, Bringing Down the House, Chicago, Last Holiday, Hairspray, Bessie, The Wiz Live, Girls Trip, Star, Flint, The Little Mermaid Live, and Hollywood, earning an Emmy Award, three SAG