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She was one of the first Black Americans to gain recognition for film and stage work in the 1920s and 1930s. Washington was active in the Harlem Renaissance (1920s–1930s). Her best-known film role was as Peola in Imitation of Life (1934). She plays a young light-skinned Black woman who decides to pass as white.
Annette Leslie Jones [1] [2] (born September 7, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and hosted the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep.
Her blog, Blaria (named for "Black Daria"), has been featured in The Huffington Post, [2] and Robinson has regularly performed a live version of Blaria Live in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C. [3] With Jessica Williams, she is the creator and co-host of the 2 Dope Queens podcast and HBO series, and she created and starred in Refinery29's web ...
Danitra Vance (July 13, 1954 – August 21, 1994) was an American comedian and actress who was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) during its eleventh season in 1985.
The same prejudice that forces Black women to fight to be seen as beautiful also denies us the right to safety — both physical and emotional. ... “You’re so pretty … for a Black girl ...
Security Woman Episode: "Hecks on a Plane" 2012 Dishing Tea with Big Meach: Herself Episode: "From Tollette, AK to Hotel Transylvania, SHE Is Going Places" StandUp in Stilettos: Herself Episode: "StandUp in Stilettos, Best of - Melissa Villasenor, Luenell and Nadine Rajabi" DTLA: Racine Episode: "Episode #1.5" 2013 Who Gets the Last Laugh? Herself
Cecily Legler Strong (born February 8, 1984) [2] [3] is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022. [ 4 ] She is the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history.
After a 40-year-long career as a cabaret singer, D'yan Forest, who lives in New York City, became a comedian in 2001. Now 90, she holds the Guinness World Record for Oldest Female Comedian and ...