Lela Rochon
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Los Angeles, California, USA
Actress Lela Rochon started her career in show business as a bikini-clad party girl in Spuds MacKenzie beer commercials during the '80s. A trained dancer, she was in the background of Breakin', Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, and Lionel Richie's music video for "All Night Long." In 1985, she starred in her first feature, A Bunny's Tale, a TV-movie starring Kirstie Alley as feminist activist Gloria Steinem during her Playboy Bunny days. Rochon went on to appear in the low-budget movies Stewardess Schooland Foxtrap, as well as the Eddie Murphy blockbusters Harlem Nights and Boomerang. Her big film breakthrough came in 1995, when her friendship with author Terry McMillan helped her to get an audition with director Forest Whitaker for the role of Robin in Waiting to Exhale. The film was a surprise Hollywood hit and Rochon was offered several new projects. After joining the cast of the WB series The Wayans Bros. as Shawn Wayans' girlfriend Lisa, she starred opposite Timothy Hutton in the made-for-cable movie Mr. and Mrs. Loving. She showed her versatility in her next few films as a wide array of characters: an exotic dancer in Gang Related, a government aide in The Chamber, a schoolteacher in Why Do Fools Fall in Love, a corporate vice president in Knock Off, and a kooky best friend in Labor Pains. In 2001, she joined the cast of the Lifetime original series The Division as Inspector Angela Reide. She and her husband, director Antoine Fuqua, have two children.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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38% | Reversion |
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— | 2015 |
27% | Supremacy |
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— | 2015 |
45% | Brooklyn's Finest |
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$26.8M | 2010 |
52% | Blood Done Sign My Name |
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$83.2k | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Fatal Secrets |
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— | 2008 |
8% | First Daughter |
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$9.1M | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Let the Church Say Amen |
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— | 2004 |
No Score Yet | Labor Pains |
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— | 2000 |
52% | Any Given Sunday |
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— | 1999 |
8% | Knock Off |
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— | 1998 |
52% | Why Do Fools Fall In Love |
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— | 1998 |
43% | The Big Hit |
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— | 1998 |
53% | Gang Related |
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— | 1997 |
83% | Ruby Bridges |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Legal Deceit |
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— | 1997 |
12% | The Chamber |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Mr. and Mrs. Loving |
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— | 1996 |
60% | Waiting to Exhale |
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— | 1995 |
29% | The Meteor Man |
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— | 1993 |
43% | Boomerang |
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— | 1992 |
21% | Harlem Nights |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Wild Pair |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Into the Homeland |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Stewardess School |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | Foxtrap |
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— | 1986 |
No Score Yet | A Bunny's Tale |
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— | 1985 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
David Makes Man
2019
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24% |
Training Day
2017
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No Score Yet |
Baldwin Hills
2007-2009
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No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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No Score Yet |
The Wayans Bros.
1995-1999
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No Score Yet |
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper
1992-1997
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No Score Yet |
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990-1996
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No Score Yet |
The Cosby Show
1984-1992
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No Score Yet |
The Facts of Life
1979-1988
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Quotes from Lela Rochon's Characters
Nora Stark: | You're in Mississippi now - the land of the secrets. There are bodies everywhere. |
Troy: | You black bitches are all the same. |
Robin Stokes: | Bitch? |
Troy: | Ya'll always complanin' about how nobody don't want your ass, don't nobody know how to treat ya! Then you meet a man, a brother, with genuine interest in ya, and you gotta act simple. Then you wonder why we date white women. |
Robin Stokes: | A white woman can have your sorry ass! |
Robin Stokes: | A white women can have your sorry ass?. |
Robin Stokes: | A white woman can have your sorry ass! |