Woman Crush Wednesday: Get to ‘You People’ Star Lauren London

It feels like we blinked and January has already passed us by. But before the first month of 2023 can end, we’ve got one last Woman Crush Wednesday to celebrate the laudable ladies leading the way in the top tiles streaming now, and you’re truly in for a treat with this one. This week, we’re talking about an amazing actress that has been serving up consistently excellent, dynamic, and compelling performances in everything from feature films to music videos over the past two decades. So, without further ado, give it up for your WCW, the limitless Lauren London!

WHO’S THAT GAL: Lauren London

WHY WE’RE CRUSHING: London stars as Amira Mohammed in the upcoming Netflix Original title You People, which premieres on the platform this Friday, January 27. The buddy comedy film follows a new couple and their families as they’re forced to re-examine family dynamics and what it takes to navigate the sometimes rocky landscape of modern love. And if that doesn’t seem complicated enough, they are all further tested by societal expectations, clashing cultures and backgrounds, and generational differences.

Co-written by Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill, You People stars London, Hill, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nia Long, and Sam Jay. Make sure to catch all of their great work by viewing this highly-anticipated new film dropping this week, only on Netflix.

WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HER BEFORE: London’s professional onscreen career began with music videos, namely cameos in Ludacris’s (feat. Shawnna) “Stand Up” in 2003 and Pharrell’s (feat. Jay-Z) “Frontin'” in 2003, and Snoop Dogg’s (feat. Pharrell) “Drop It Like It’s Hot” in 2004. She then made her jump to film and TV come 2006, when she appeared in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris and as Erin “New New” Garnett in coming-of-age comedy-drama movie ATL. From there, London swiftly built up her filmography with work in shows like Entourage, 90210, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Single Ladies, and Reed Between the Lines, as well as in films like 2007 Christmas comedy This Christmas, 2009 teen romantic-comedy I Love You, Beth Cooper, 2009 dark comedy Next Day Air, 2009 documentary Good Hair, and 2011 comedy-drama Madea’s Big Happy Family.

By 2013, London cemented herself as a household name thanks to beginning her recurring role as Keira Whitaker in The CW romantic comedy-drama series The Game (on which she acted until 2015) and playing Sheree Moore in romantic-comedy film Baggage Claim that very year. She only continued to crush it thereafter, with even more TV work on Rebel, The Talk, Hip Hop Squares, and Games People Play, plus roles in films like 2016 romantic-comedy The Perfect Match, 2018 family TV movie Poinsettias for Christmas, and 2020 thriller Always and Forever. Most recently, you may have seen London as Monyca in the 2021 Netflix Original dramatic limited series True Story, and as Pam Madden Clark in 2021 action-thriller film Without Remorse. Clearly, London is an exceptional talent and hard worker who has knocked it out of the park on screens big and big, and we can’t wait to see all that she continues to pursue and create in the years ahead!

WHERE YOU’LL SEE HER AGAIN: While we’re not sure what’s next from London role-wise at the moment, you can at least keep up to date with the actress by following her now on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook so that you never miss a moment from your wonderful WCW!