30+ Black Actors

1. Lovensky Jean-Baptiste

Lovensky Jean-Baptiste was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is an actor and producer, known for Young Rock (2021), StartUp (2016) and The Upshaws (2021).

Cory Hardrict was born on November 9, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for American Sniper (2014), Brotherly Love (2015) and November Criminals (2017). He was previously married to Tia Mowry.

3. Tramell Tillman

Actor | Severance

Tramell Tillman was born on June 17, 1985 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor, known for Severance (2022), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part Two (2025) and Barron's Cove.

4. Ilfenesh Hadera

Actress | Baywatch

Ilfenesh Hadera (born December 1, 1985) is an American actress. Ilfenesh was born in Harlem, New York City and is of Ethiopian and European ethnicity. Her father Asfaha Hadera, an Ethiopian refugee, is the founder and Co-Executive Director of African Services Committee, a Harlem based NGO which ...

5. Ade Chike Torbert

Actor | Power Book III: Raising Kanan

Ade Chike Torbert, is an actor & dancer. Born in Brooklyn, NY. He began studying dance & theater at the age of 6, & was later accepted into the esteemed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High school as a dance major. Ade Chike then went on to train at The Alvin Ailey School, Boston Conservatory & New World ...

6. Beliria Sims

Actress | Blood Pledge

Beliria Sims is known for Blood Pledge (2023), The Walls Are Talking and Black Love Future, A.D. (2021).

7. Phillip Mullings Jr.

Actor | First Kill

Phillip Mullings Jr. is known for First Kill (2022), American Soul (2019) and Queen Sugar (2016).

8. Folake Olowofoyeku

Actress | Bob Hearts Abishola

Nigerian-born actress Folake Olowofoyeku has won the heart of critics and audiences alike with her title role in the CBS half-hour comedy "Bob Hearts Abishola." In this comedic examination of immigrant life in America from a creative team led by Chuck Lorre ("The Big Bang Theory," "Two and a Half ...

9. Gina Yashere

Actress | Bob Hearts Abishola

This dynamic young comedienne hailing from London via Nigeria has taken the comedy world by storm since her debut. In a few short years, she has become one of the most sought after comics in the country, making numerous appearances on Television, radio and the big screen.

This former lift engineer's...

10. Sonequa Martin-Green

Actress | Star Trek: Discovery

Sonequa Martin-Green (born March 21, 1985) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her television role as Sasha Williams on The Walking Dead, a role she played from 2012 to 2017. Before that, she had starred in several independent films before gaining her first recurring role as ...

11. Melanie Liburd

Actress | The Idol

Melanie was born in Hertfordshire, England, daughter of Georgina a Realtor and Michael Liburd a Martial Arts Expert and has two brothers Marc and Leon. She is half Kittitian, half English. Her mother was born in Russell Square in London and her father was born on the Island of Saint Kitts and Nevis...

12. Justin Marcel McManus

Actor | Power Book II: Ghost

Originally born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in Carmel, Indiana. Justin graduated from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor's Degree in Marketing. He also played Division 1 Baseball at the University. Justin is of African-American and Panamanian decent. Upon graduating college, he ...

13. Jessica Lucas

Actress | The Covenant

Jessica Lucas (born September 24th, 1985) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is known for her roles in television, such as Edgemont, Melrose Place (1992) and Cult, and in the films The Covenant (2006), Cloverfield (2008) and 2013's Evil Dead (2013). She also starred in the music video for ...

14. Kid Cudi

Soundtrack | The Harder They Fall

Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, known professionally as Kid Cudi, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, and actor. He has widely been recognized as an influence on several contemporary hip hop and alternative acts.His lyrics are often autobiographical and describe his childhood hardships of ...

15. Glenn Plummer

Actor | Strange Days

On a foundation of talent, unbridled dedication and a passionate mindset, Glenn Plummer has enjoyed a successful acting career that spans three decades. He has starred in such feature films as, Gifted, Saw II (2005), Dennis Hopper's Colors (1988), Menace II Society (1993), Showgirls (1995), The ...

16. Eme Ikwuakor

Actor | Inhumans

Eme Ikwuakor (pronounced Ick-Walker) will be seen next starring opposite Halle Berry and Patrick Wilson in the Roland Emmerich Sci Fi film, Moonfall set to release in theaters on February 4th.

Ikwuakor is best known for playing 'Gorgon', one of the leads on ABC's "Marvel's Inhumans". Some of his ...

17. Acquah Dansoh

Actor | You Should Meet My Son!

An African-American actor with Ghanian roots Acquah hails from two cities born in Reston,VA and raised in Miami,FL Acquah calls both states home. Graduating out of Miami's mega magnet high school Coral Reef, Acquah received his high school diploma from the Visual and Performance Arts department in ...

18. Javicia Leslie

Actress | Batwoman

Javicia Leslie was born in Augsburg, Germany. She moved to Maryland at a young age and was raised in Upper Marlboro near Washington, DC. Her first stream of work began as the lead for the television film, Killer Coach. Javicia has continued to work ties with series such as MacGyver, Chef Julian, ...

19. Sharon Duncan-Brewster

Actress | Dune

Sharon Duncan-Brewster was born on February 8, 1976 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Dune (2021), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Enola Holmes 2 (2022).

20. Nicole Randall Johnson

Actress | MADtv

Born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona, Nicole Randall Johnson trained in the B.F.A. Acting/Directing program at University of Arizona in Tucson.

Nicole later moved to Los Angeles where, after 3-years of sketch & improvisation training at the renowned ...

21. Mo McRae

Producer | A Lot of Nothing

Mo McRae was born on July 4, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Lot of Nothing (2022), The First Purge (2018) and Wild (2014). He has been married to Lex Scott Davis since July 21, 2019.

22. Kristofer Sykes

Actor | American Skin

Kristofer Sykes is known for American Skin (2019) and The Passport (2023).

23. Russell Hornsby

Actor | The Hate U Give

Russell Hornsby was born on May 15, 1974 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Hate U Give (2018), Fences (2016) and Meet the Parents (2000). He has been married to Denise Walker since August 1, 2008.

24. Kat Graham

Actress | How It Ends

Kat Graham is an actress, singer, dancer and producer. Working across a variety of genres in film, television and music, she is one of most accomplished and versatile young talents working today.

Graham was recently seen in the 70s period crime thriller "The Poison Rose" opposite Morgan Freeman and ...

25. Dayo Okeniyi

Actor | Dark Matter

Dayo Okeniyi (Pronounced: Die-o Okay-nii-yii) began performing on the stage in elementary school. In 2003, Okeniyi, the youngest of five siblings, moved from Nigeria with his family to the The United States. His father, now a retired customs officer and mother, a British literature teacher, were ...

26. Lex Scott Davis

Actress | The First Purge

Alexis "Lex Scott" Davis was born February 26, 1991. She is an actress from Baltimore, Maryland and has been dancing and acting since she was 3 years old. Davis attended Drexel University as a Dance Physical Therapy major before she moved to New York City in 2013. She continued her studies at the ...

27. Kandyse McClure

Actress | Battlestar Galactica

Kandyse McClure is a Canadian actress born on March 22, 1980 in Durban in South Africa. She graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School in 1998. She is an actress, known for main roles in TV series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Hemlock Grove (2013), and from the movies Carrie (2002) and Seventh ...

28. Deborah Ayorinde

Actress | Them

Deborah Ayorinde was born in London, England. At age seven, she performed in her first play with a drama school in the Forest Gate area of London. It was there that she developed a passion for the arts. When she was eight years old, she and her family relocated to San Jose, California. She ...

29. Aldis Hodge

Actor | Black Adam

Aldis Hodge is a SAG Award-winning actor, who has built a dynamic career as a versatile performer shining in roles in both film and television. Hodge is perhaps best known for his role as Noah in the WGN hit series Underground (2016), starring alongside Jurnee Smollett and Christopher Meloni. ...

30. Enuka Okuma

Actress | Workin' Moms

Enuka Okuma was born on September 20, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for Workin' Moms (2017), The Sleepover (2020) and Rookie Blue (2010). She has been married to Joe Gasparin since July 2, 2011.

31. Trevante Rhodes

Actor | Moonlight

Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as Chiron in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics ...

32. Karibi Fubara

Producer | We Speak Dance

Karibi Fubara was an actor and producer, known for We Speak Dance (2018), Ratnik (2020) and 840 Days (2022). He was married to Yolanda Okereke. He died on December 15, 2021 in Nigeria.

33. Anna Diop

Actress | Us

Anna Diop is a Senegalese-American actress.

Diop was born in Senegal, but moved to United States when she was six. In 2006, she made her television debut, appearing on Everybody Hates Chris. In the following years, she guest starred on Lincoln Heights, Whitney, and Touch. In film, Diop had a role ...

34. Tosin Morohunfola

Actor | Run the World

Tosin is an actor, writer, director and Chicago-transplant based in LA. He is also the proud son of Nigerian Immigrants now living in Kansas City, where he grew up. He is a recurring guest on Black Lightning (2018), Love Is_ (2018), The Chi (2018) and Run the World (2021)

Tosin is also a filmmaker, ...

35. Lamar Usher

Actor | Emily the Criminal

Lamar Usher is known for Emily the Criminal (2022), On the Line (2022) and Snowfall (2017).

36. Zazie Beetz

Actress | Atlanta

Zazie Beetz (born c. 1991) is a German-American actress known for the role of Vanessa on Atlanta (2016), as well as for starring in Deadpool 2 (2018), Joker (2019), and Nine Days (2020).

Born in Berlin to a German father and an African-American mother, Beetz was raised in New York speaking both ...

37. Nikki Amuka-Bird

Actress | Jupiter Ascending

Amuka-Bird was born in Nigeria, but grew up in the UK and in Antigua. She abandoned her dancing aspirations after suffering a back injury. After attending LAMDA, she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whilst on tour with the RSC in Japan, she met her husband, actor Geoffrey Streatfield. In ...

38. Susan Kelechi Watson

Actress | This Is Us

Susan Kelechi Watson was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for This Is Us (2016), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) and NCIS (2003).