Janet Jackson Biography

Fast Facts

• As a child, she aspired to be a jockey
• Began performing in her family's Las Vegas revue at age 7, doing celebrity impressions such as Mae West and Cher
• In 1979, she starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom New Kind of Family opposite Rob Lowe
• Nicknamed "Dunk
• " Only member of the Jackson family to be nominated for an Academy Award
• Mattel auctioned off a special Barbie made in her likeness in December 2010, and the proceeds were donated to the Los Angeles charity Project Angel Food
• Coauthored the self-help book True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself, which was released in February 2011
• With the release of her 2015 album Unbreakable, she became only the third artist (after Bruce Springsteen and Barbra Streisand) to have a number one album in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s