Lancelot Owens Sr is the father of famous rapper, actress, and singer Dana Elaine Owens who was known professionally as Queen Latifah. Lancelot Owens Sr worked as a cop, a police tactical officer. He was married to school teacher Rita Owens, who later died of scleroderma, an autoimmune disease.
He is the father of Queen Latifah, Lancelot Owens Jr. Lancelot Jr. was killed in 1992 in an accident involving a motorcycle that Latifah had bought for him. There are fewer details about the early life age, parents’ identity, and siblings as well as other vital information about Lancelot Owens Sr’s life.
Lancelot Owens Sr: Bio Summary
| Name | Lancelot Owens Sr |
| Gender | Male |
| Famous as | Queen Latifah’s father |
| Spouse | Rita Owens |
| Children | Queen Latifah, Lancelot Owens Jr. |
| Occupation | Police Officer |
Lancelot Owens Sr is a police officer. His former wife is Rita Owens and they had a son and a daughter. He is the father of Queen Latifah and Lancelot Owens Jr. His son was also a cop but he died in 1992 in a motorcycle accident. He raised his kids with his wife in East Orange, New Jersey, in the United States of America. He took care of and provided for his family.
Who is Lancelot Owens Sr’s Wife?
Lancelot Owens Sr was married to Rita Owens a teacher at Irvington High School where their daughter Latifah went to school. We do not have details on how the two met or where they met. After some years of staying together, they got separated when their daughter Latifah was just ten years old.
Lancelot’s wife Rita Owens, died of scleroderma, an autoimmune disease in which the condition is common, and has no cure. According to Latifah, It was, “something that affected my mom who was otherwise a healthy person”.
Lancelot Owens Sr Famous Daughter
Dana Elaine Owens known by many as Queen Latifah is Lancelot Owens ‘ famous daughter. Queen Latifah was born on March 18 in 1970, in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States of America but grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. She come up with her popular name Latifah (لطيفة laţīfa), meaning “delicate” and “very kind” in Arabic, in a book of Arabic names when she was at the age of eight years. She attended a Catholic School in Newark, New Jersey.
During her high school days, she played on the basketball team and had parts in school plays like The Wiz. She enrolled in Essex Catholic Girls’ High School in Irvington but graduated from Irvington High School. She later attended Borough of Manhattan Community College.
Lancelot’s daughter is an American rapper, actress, and singer who signed with Tommy Boy Records in 1989 and released her debut album All Hail the Queen on November 28, 1989, featuring the hit single “Ladies First”. Nature of a Sista’ (1991) was her second and final album with Tommy Boy Records.
Her third album, Black Reign (1993), was the first album by a solo female rapper to receive an RIAA certification, and spawned the single “U.N.I.T.Y.” She dropped her fourth album, Order in the Court, on June 16, 1998, with Motown Records.
She then garnered acclaim with her role of Matron “Mama” Morton in the musical film Chicago (2002), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Queen Latifah has also been named the “Queen of Rap” as well as “rap’s first feminist”.
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As an actress, Queen Latifah has starred in multiple films including the lead role in Set It Off (1996). She starred as Khadijah James on the Fox sitcom Living Single from 1993 to 1998 and in other films.
She was the first hip-hop artist to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2006). She has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, and an Academy Award nomination.
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