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As one of the most influential Black women celebrities, Oprah Winfrey is an actress, philanthropist, producer and global media leader. She hosted the highest-rated daytime TV talk show, “The ...
Born in the 1990s-2000s. Ajiona Alexus, actress. Jaylen Barron, actress (half Afro-American, half Mexican) Zazie Beetz (African-American mother), actress [ 1] Rhyon Nicole Brown, actress. Chance The Rapper, rapper. Zendaya Coleman (African-American father), actress and singer [ 2] Jude Demorest, actress. Teala Dunn, actress.
First Black actor to be nominated for Best Actor. 1963. Lilies of the Field. Homer Smith. Won. First Black man to win a competitive Oscar. First Bahamian to win Best Actor. First Black actor to receive two acting nominations (Best Actor). Youngest Black actor to win Best Actor (age 37).
Laverne Cox (born May 29, 1972) is an American actress and LGBT advocate. [3] [4] [5] She rose to prominence with her role as Sophia Burset on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in an acting category, [6] [7] and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer Angela Morley in 1990. [8]
A–C. Roy Acuff, country music singer, performed in blackface in 1930s-40s traveling medicine shows [ 1] Scarlet Adams [ 2] Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, in The Masque of Blackness [ 3] Fred Armisen, impersonating U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008 and 2009 [ 4]
Women Management (Milan) The Squad (London) [ 1] Chantelle Whitney Brown-Young[ 3] (born July 27, 1994), known professionally as Winnie Harlow, is a Canadian fashion model and public spokesperson on the skin condition vitiligo. She gained prominence in 2014 as a contestant on the 21st cycle of the U.S. television series America's Next Top Model.
Ozzy Osbourne (born 1948), English singer (Black Sabbath). [38] Jeremy Paxman (born 1950), British broadcaster. [39] Valerie Perrine (born 1943), American actress and model. [40] Brent Peterson (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [41] Davis Phinney (born 1959), American cyclist. [42] Bill Rasmussen (born 1932), American sports ...
She was the first black female to hold the role of Queen's Chaplain. She also served as Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons from 2010 to 2019; Oliver Lyseight, founder of one of Britain's largest black majority churches, and spiritual leader to the "Windrush generation" [2] [3] Neville Neil, bishop of the Moravian Church in Jamaica