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Sanaa Lathan is immensely blessed because she gets to experience both. The actress recently shared selfies with her mother, Eleanor McCoy, who she is a spitting image of.

Perhaps Lathan's resigned ease with the push-pull of celebrity access is natural-born: Lathan's mother, Eleanor McCoy, was an actress in the 1970s and 1980s; her father Stan Lathan, is a director.

Sanaa Lathan on Making Her Directing Debut at TIFF With ‘On the Come Up’: ... [Eleanor McCoy] was a dancer and an actress, so I was born into the business.

Taking notes from her mother, Eleanor McCoy, Sanaa Lathan was out and about yesterday, September 19th, celebrating her 53rd birthday. And the girlies can’t get enough! toggle menu.

The queen of aging like fine wine, drinking water, and minding her business while proving that age is nothing but a number is back at it again. Taking notes from her mother, Eleanor McCoy, Sanaa ...

Sanaa Lathan, thank you so much for talking with us. LATHAN: Thank you for having me. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ON THE COME UP") RAPSODY: (Rapping) Run up the numbers. My come up is on.

Sanaa Lathan is Black royalty. It felt really surreal to know I was working with someone I grew up watching. It also felt great to know that I was working with somebody experienced in the industry.

Lathan plays an alcoholic character, which she tells PEOPLE "felt cathartic" after deciding to give up drinking in 2018. ‘The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat,’ out now, stars Sanaa Lathan ...

Sanaa Lathan at DGA Theater Complex on June 25, 2024 | Robin L Marshall/Getty Images for BET+. Lathan has been making the media rounds to promote Young.Wild.Free.

Lathan fans know that the 53-year-old doesn’t look much older than she did in Love and Basketball and is still as breathtaking as she was in the 90s. Sis obviously inherited her mom’s genetics.