- Her name is Swahili for "art" but can be loosely interpreted as "artwork" or "work of art".
- Alfre Woodard has played Sanaa's mother in three different films: Something New (2006), Love & Basketball (2000) and The Family That Preys (2008).
- Yale School of Drama graduate.
- Sanaa was raised partly in Beverly Hills with her father, director Stan Lathan, and partly in New York with her mother, Eleanor McCoy, a Broadway stage actress.
- Graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with a B.A. in English.
- Gained 20 pounds for her role in Disappearing Acts (2000).
- Voted one of Ebony magazine's 55 Most Beautiful People. (2000)
- Says her name is pronounced Sa-NA, "like Sinatra without the tra".
- Appearing on Broadway as Beneatha in "Raisin In The Sun". (April 2004)
- Best friend of Sean Patrick Patterson.
- Friends with Gabrielle Union.
- Mother was an Alvin Ailey dancer.
- Sister of Tendaji Lathan.
- She is African-American.
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