Lela Rochon Biography
Born: April 17, 1964
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. Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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