
Most of us will never forget the striking image she cut on screen as the cute Catholic girlfriend of Cuba Gooding Jr’s “Trey” in the Oscar-nominated classic Boyz N the Hood in 1991. And she sizzled with sensuality in the sensual drama Love Jones opposite Lorenz Tate. But Long played Kat Speakes on the soap “A Guiding Light” from 1991 to 94.