Name : Lela Rochon
Date of Birth : April 17, 1964
Place of birth : Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name : Lela Rochon Staples
Height : 5' 9.
Lela Rochon - Detailed Biography
Lela
Rochon Staples was born April 17th, 1964, in Los Angeles, California,
where twenty years later she would graduate in the class of 1984 from
Cerritos (rhymes with Burritos) High School.
Lela knew she was destined for entertainment world greatness. If you
were one of the early viewers of MTV, you may have first garnered a
glance of the 5'9" beauty in the 1983 video for Lionel Richie's, "All
Night Long." Lela was also a fixture in another '80s icon: she was a "spudette"
in the Spudz McKenzie Budweiser commercials.
As the '90s came, Lela worked her way into some other films such as The
Meteor Man and Boomerang, once again with Eddie Murphy. While the WB
network offered lots of work for African-American actors and actresses
in the mid-90s, the parade of sitcoms and dramas rarely lasted long.
This included a short stint for Lela on a 1995 one-season run of The
Wayans Bros., starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans of Scary Movie fame.
However, later that year Lela would land the greatest role of her life,
as Robin in 1995's Waiting to Exhale. During the rest of the decade,
Lela landed roles in films such as 1998's The Big Hit and Why Do Fools
Fall in Love, and 1999's Any Given Sunday.
For the last few years, you may have noticed that Lela has been credited
as Lela Rochon Fuqua, after having married director Antoine Fuqua in
1999. The couple had their first child last summer and Lela plans to
take some time off to raise their child, but will be back soon to take
over the world.
