Mary Jane Blige

Mary Jane Blige (born in The Bronx, New York), is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B, soul, and hip-hop soul singer, songwriter, producer, and actress who has sold more than 34 million records worldwide (according to a March 2007 interview with VIBE). She is widely known as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul."
Blige made her acting debut in 1998 on The Jamie Foxx Show playing Ola Mae, a preacher's daughter who wanted to sing more than gospel music. In 2001, she played Mrs. Butler in the independent feature film, Prison Song, starring rapper Q-Tip. The same year, Blige made a cameo on the Lifetime network series, Strong Medicine, playing Simone Fellows, a band's lead singer who is sick, but won't get help.
In 2004, Blige starred in her first off-Broadway play, The Exonerated. The play chronicled the experiences of real death row inmates. Blige portrayed Sunny Jacobs, a woman who spent twenty years in prison for a crime she did not commit.
In December 2005, it was reported that Blige had landed the starring role in the upcoming MTV Films biopic on Nina Simone. The film's writer, Cynthia Mort, said Blige was the perfect person to bring Simone to life. There is no word yet as to when the film will start shooting.
"Brook Lynn"
In 2006, on a guest appearance for Busta Rhymes' "Touch It" (Remix), Mary revealed that she had also performed using an alter ego, as rapper Brook Lynn. Brook is also featured on "Enough Cryin" and "Gonna Breakthrough" on the The Breakthrough.
In February 2007, she guest-starred on the Ghost Whisperer episode "Mean Ghost", aired on CBS on February 9, as Jackie Boyd, a grievous cheerleading coach that must cope over the death of her brother and deal with a dead cheerleader harming her team. Throughout the episode several of Blige's songs were played.

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