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Two years after McDaniel's historic win at the Oscars, Lena Horne, singer, actress, dancer and activist was the first Black actress to sign a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio (MGM).
He took to his Instagram Story to share snaps of the actor in her all-black ensemble composed of a long-sleeved turtleneck and a sweeping glossy skirt with a twisted train, with a bunch of heart ...
This is a list of African-American actors by alphabetical order. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is African American and a notable actor.
Nina Mae McKinney (June 12, 1912 – May 3, 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theatre, film and television, after beginning her career on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed "The Black Garbo" in Europe because of her striking beauty, [1] [2] McKinney was both one of the first ...
Here’s a star-studded list of 25 famous Black actors in Hollywood you should know. #1 John David Washington ... He technically got his first role at 8 years old — a single line in Spike Lee ...
It includes 20th-century American male actors that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "20th-century African-American male actors" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 916 total.
Every Black actor and actress, director and comedian stands on the shoulders of those who paved the way for future generations. In honor of Black History Month, ET is celebrating some of the ...
Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry (May 30, 1902 – November 19, 1985), better known by the stage name Stepin Fetchit, was an American vaudevillian, comedian, and film actor of Jamaican and Bahamian descent, considered to be the first black actor to have a successful film career. [3]