Name
Lauryn Hill
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1975-05-26 (51 years old)
Place of Birth
South Orange, New Jersey, USA
Biography
Lauryn Noelle Hill (born May 26, 1975) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of her time and considered a pioneer of neo soul and rap-singing, she has been credited by The Telegraph with popularizing hip-hop music. In 2015, Billboard named her the greatest female rapper. Hill has been named one of Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers, VH1's 100 Women in Music, and NPR's 50 Great Voices. She is the highest-grossing American female rapper in live music, and has won eight Grammy Awards, the most for any female rapper.
Known For
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Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic scho...
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Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lin...
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While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman are pull...
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Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches a...
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The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small ...
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Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follow...
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The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment....
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Exploring the social impact of what The Source Magazine in 1998 voted, "The Best Hip Hop R...
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Lee Plenty is an almost broke would-be novelist and Havilland Savage is a rich and very be...
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Based on powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle fo...
- 2005 Dave Chappelle's Block Party as Self (Fugees)
- 1993 Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit as Rita Louise Watson
- 1993 King of the Hill as Elevator Operator
- 2000 Santana: Supernatural Live as Self
- 2021 You're Watching Video Music Box as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 Why Is We Americans? as Self
- 2009 DJ Cinema Presents: Masterpiece Theater Blend Dvd as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 One Love: The Bob Marley All-Star Tribute as Self - Perfomer
- 2005 Santana: In Concert as Self - Vocals
- 2007 Soul Divas as Self
- 1996 Fugees: Live at New Pop Festival 1996 as Self - Fugees
- 2014 Concerning Violence as Narrator in English version
- 1998 Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! as Self - The Fugees
- 2010 My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip Hop as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives
- 1997 Rhyme & Reason as Self
- 1999 Restaurant as Leslie
- 2018 Ms. Lauryn Hill - Baloise Session 2018 as vocals
- 2015 Lauryn Hill: Austin City Limits as vocals
- 1999 Lauryn Hill - Live at Budokan, Japan as vocals
- 2001 Lauryn Hill: MTV Unplugged as Self
- 2019 The Apollo as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert as Self (archive footage)
- 1999 Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales as Self
- 2025 Hodgepodge as Self (archive footage)
- 1998 Free Tibet as Self - Fugees
- 2025 SNL50: The Homecoming Concert as Self
- 2025 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music as Self (archive footage)
- 1996 Daddy's Girl as Malika
- 1997 Hav Plenty as Debra
- Soon Dave Chappelle's Block Party 2 as Self
- 2026 Ye Live at SoFi as Self
- 2021 When I See Them, I See Us
- 2018 Fly Paper
- 1994 All That ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Musical Guest
- 1984 MTV Video Music Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1999 Teen Choice Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 ECHO-Verleihung ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1992 Here and Now ( 1 episode )
- 2001 BET Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
- 1959 The Grammys ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1977 The BRIT Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1996 TFI Friday ( 2 episodes )
