Famous Black Actors

• Abdul-Mateen, Yahya

  Cal Abar in the TV version of 'Watchmen'

• Ali, Mahershala

  Two-time Oscar-winner for 'Moonlight' and 'Green Book'

• Angelou, Maya

  The author of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

• Awkwafina

  Comic rapper turned actress who starred in 'The Farewell'

• Bassett, Angela

  The Stella from How Stella Got Her Groove Back

• Berry, Halle

  Oscar-winning star of Monster's Ball

• Common

  The rapper who co-wrote the theme from Selma

• Cosby, Bill

  The controversial star of the hit 1980s sitcom The Cosby Show

• Dandridge, Dorothy

  Star of the movie Carmen Jones

• Horne, Lena

  Singer of the jazz standard "Stormy Weather"

• Kotto, Yaphet

  Parker in the movie 'Aliens' and Idi Amin in 'Raid on Entebbe'

• Markle, Meghan

  The American actress who married Britain's Prince Harry

• McDaniel, Hattie

  The first black actor to win an Oscar, in 1940

• Nicholas Brothers, The

  Acrobatic tapdancers of the 1943 film Stormy Weather

• Odom, Leslie Jr.

  Aaron Burr in the musical 'Hamilton'

• Perry, Tyler

  Madea in his film Diary of a Mad Black Woman

• Poitier, Sidney

  The star of the 1967 film In The Heat of the Night

• Scott, Hazel

  The jazz star who had her own TV show in 1950, The Hazel Scott Show

• Smith, Will

  Popular rapper and star of the film Men in Black

• Thompson, Kenan

  The 'SNL' cast member who was a Nickelodeon star

• Tyson, Cicely

  The star of 'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman'

• Waithe, Lena

  Writer/producer of the film 'Queenie & Slim' and Denise from 'Master of None'

• Winfrey, Oprah

  The host of TV's Oprah from 1986-2011

See: Famous African-Americans (for Black History Month)