Jackson received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for original song for “Again,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1993. The movie, which featured poems written by Maya Angelou, also starred Tupac Shakur. Jackson made her cinematic debut in the 1993 film “Poetic Justice,” a film about a young African-American poet written and directed by John Singleton. She also appeared on “Diff’rent Strokes,” playing Willis’ girlfriend, Charlene Duprey, and as a dance student on “Fame.” 2Janet on the big screen While five of her brothers - initially The Jackson 5, then The Jacksons - were climbing the pop and soul charts in 1977, Jackson was busy hamming it up on television as Millicent “Penny” Gordon Woods on the CBS television show “Good Times,” which was a spinoff of “Maude.” She was part of the six-season show’s main cast, joining in Season 5.

Let’s relive some of our favorite Miss Jackson pop culture moments. The calculated move showed that 29 years after “Control” cemented her pop icon status, Jackson is still in control and thinks she has a lot of music left in her.

The singer and actress, who quietly lived in North County in the 1990s, announced her new album and tour at the stroke of midnight May 16, her 49th birthday. 31 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and makes its San Diego stop Saturday at San Diego State University’s Viejas Arena. The latter - “Unbreakable” - launched Aug. “Unbreakable” is part of a well-orchestrated comeback: She’s got a new record label (her own), a new album and a new tour.

The new album “Unbreakable,” her first in seven years, is currently perched atop the Billboard 200 albums chart, making Jackson one of only three musical acts to catapult an album to the No. In 2012, she managed to keep her life so private that it wasn’t until a year later, in 2013, that she revealed she’d married Wissam Al Mana, a tycoon from Qatar. Perhaps that’s why Janet Damita Jo Jackson, the youngest of 10 from a musical family that produced the King of Pop, has been out of the limelight these last few years, choosing - some say, masterminding - to live a life away from the media microscope. Where: Viejas Arena, San Diego State University, 5500 Canyon Crest Drive, San Diego

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