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Becoming a parent herself in 1997 forced her into a healthier lifestyle, and she began earning notice for her small but well-executed supporting roles in films such as Ali and The Gospel. 180.

Good Housekeeping, January 2002, p. The marriage between her parents, which lasted from 1977 to 1981, was a troubled one, and both had substance abuse problems.

Her mother's addictions worsened, and Gaye began using drugs herself at the age of 14.

Gaye eventually dropped out of high school around the time she made her film debut with a bit part in the 1989 Eddie Murphy film Harlem Nights. Still needing to earn a living for herself, Gaye dabbled in modeling, but had a difficult time keeping slim enough.

I'm doing everything I can do to stay away from what I know could destroy me."

Selected works

Albums

Love for the Future (includes "I'm Overjoyed"), Third Stone/Atlantic, 1992.

Films

Ali, 2003.
The Matrix Reloaded, 2003.
The Matrix Revolutions, 2003.
Crash, 2004.
The Polar Express, 2004.
xXx: State of the Union, 2005.
The Gospel, 2005.

Sources

Periodicals

Detroit Free Press, October 5, 2005.

Esquire, March 2002, p.

Her agent suggested she try film, and sent her on an audition for director Michael Mann, who was casting roles for a planned biopic about boxing great Muhammad Ali. Gaye recalled that her lower lip trembled so badly during her tryout that she was sure she had ruined her chances in Hollywood forever, and cried in her car afterward. "But acting's all mine."

BornSeptember 4, 1974

Nona Gaye Biography

1974–

Actor

Gaye, Nona, photograph.

She was cast as Zee (a supporting role that was previously held by the late Aaliyah) in the sequels "The Matrix Reloaded" and "The Matrix Revolutions" (both 2003), and turned in a fine performance via the groundbreaking Performance Capture technology in the CGI-animated children's story "The Polar Express" (2004).

It was inevitable that Nona Gaye would become a singer - she is the granddaughter of Cuban jazz great Slim Gaillard, the niece of R&B singer/songwriter Frankie Gaye and the daughter of soul legend Marvin Gaye.

She also replaced Aaliyah in the two Matrix sequels after the singer died in a plane crash.

I don't drink, I don't smoke. 96.

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Complicating matters even further was the fact that Marvin Gaye was still married, and to Gordy's sister, Anna, at the time his daughter Nona was born.

Endured Difficult Childhood

Gaye and her younger brother grew up in New York City, Los Angeles, and Ostende, Belgium, where their father had settled for tax reasons.

"I think my dad would tell me to be really, really careful to steer clear of the demons that are in my bloodline," she replied. "That never goes away." Despite the recent success her father had achieved, little of that money went to Gaye, her brother, or her mother after outstanding tax claims were settled. At the time of her birth, her father was one of the most successful black recording artists in the world.

She landed a record deal and put out a 1992 album, Love for the Future, whose top single, "I'm Overjoyed," reached No. 17 on R&B singles charts. In 2004, Nona provided the voice for Hero Girl in The Polar Express (2004), which also starred Tom Hanks. "Three years I dated him and didn't know him and really never let him know me, either," she later told Harris in Esquire.

"But that was a long time ago, and I wish him well."

Gaye admits she was still using drugs, and sometimes even with her mother, until the mid-1990s, when Janis entered a treatment facility and Gaye followed not long afterward after swallowing a handful of pills with cham-pagne at a time when she was feeling particularly bereft.

With no acting experience and her agents warning her not to get her hopes up, she won the role of Khalilah Camacho Ali in Ali (2001)opposite Academy Award-nominee Will Smith. But Mann and Will Smith, who played Ali, called her back for more readings, and she won the part of Ali's second wife, Khalilah.

Gaye's next role was in 2003's The Matrix Reloaded, the sequel to the hit sci-fi thriller The Matrix.

At six years old her father announced on Soul Train, "She sings quite well." So at the tender age of 14, Gaye cut her first demo and was signed to Atlantic Records at 16. After becoming sober, she reconnected with her high-school boyfriend, Justin Martinez, and had a son, Nolan, with him in 1997. Gaye was unhappy with the final product, however, and not surprised that it failed to sell.

Neither one of you." Marvin Gaye's career, which had languished after What's Going On, was revitalized in 1983 when he won two Grammy Awards for the song "Sexual Healing," from the album Midnight Love.