Caption: (Left to right) Angie Stone as Alma, Cuba Gooding, Jr. as Darrin Hill, Rue McClanahan as Nancy Stringer, Melba Moore as Bessie Cooley, Beyoncé Knowles as Lilly and LaTanya Richardson as Paulina Pritchett.
Actress, Director, Soundtrack
Born: October 21, 1949
Star sign: Libra
Known for: U.S. Marshals (1998), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Malcolm X (1992), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
Source: IMDB
She graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1971. While a student at Spelman (an all-female institution), she met Samuel L. Jackson, who was a student at Morehouse College (the all-male institution affiliated with Spelman), who would later become her husband. She and Jackson have one daughter named Zoe.