Actors
by ericasmallwood95 | created - 09 May 2020 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. Pablo Schreiber
Actor | 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Pablo Tell Schreiber was born in Ymir, British Columbia, Canada, to Lorraine Reaveley, a Canadian psychotherapist, and Tell Schreiber, an American actor. His paternal half-brother is actor Liev Schreiber. Pablo, who is named after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, was raised in Ymir, and moved to Seattle,...
2. 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 ...
3. Brian Marc
Actor | White Girl
Brian Marc is known for White Girl (2016), The Kill Team (2019) and Luke Cage (2016).
4. Thomas Q. Jones
Actor | Straight Outta Compton
Thomas Q. Jones is a captivating force on and off the field. While best known as an unstoppable all-time leading running back that played twelve seasons in the National Football League (NFL), Jones has turned his post-NFL focus to the world of acting in both film and television, and the world of ...
5. Christopher Abbott
Actor | It Comes at Night
Christopher Jacob Abbott is an American actor. Abbott made his feature film debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). Abbott's other notable films include Hello I Must Be Going (2012) and The Sleepwalker (2014). In 2015, Abbott starred as the titular character in the critically acclaimed film James...
6. Luke Evans
Actor | Dracula Untold
Luke George Evans was born in Pontypool, Wales, and grew up in Aberbargoed, in the south of Wales. He is the son of Yvonne (Lewis) and David Evans. He moved to Cardiff at the age 17. He then won a scholarship to the London Studio Centre, and graduated in 2000.
He starred in many of London's West End...
7. LaKeith Stanfield
Actor | Sorry to Bother You
LaKeith Lee Stanfield is an actor and rapper from Victorville, California. At the age of fifteen, LaKeith began attending the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center in Orange County. A few years later, he auditioned for Destin Cretton's then college thesis film Short Term 12 (2008). Later, the ...
8. Larenz Tate
Actor | Crash
Larenz Tate was born on the west side of Chicago to Larry and Peggy Tate, the youngest of three brothers. His brothers are actors Larron Tate and Lahmard J. Tate. In 1984, Larenz and his family moved to California. It was while living in California that Larenz's parents got him and his brothers ...
9. Rick Gonzalez
Actor | Coach Carter
Rick Gonzalez was born on June 30th 1979 in New York City and raised in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He attended the "Fame" High School of performing arts where he studied Acting. Graduating in 1997 to pursue a career, Rick briefly worked in New York and later moved to Los Angeles to continue ...
10. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Actor | Aquaman
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is an American actor. He portrayed David Kane, the Black Manta in the DC Extended Universe Aquaman films and Bobby Seale in the Netflix historical legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7. For his portrayal of Cal Abar in the HBO limited series Watchmen, he won a Primetime Emmy ...
11. Hero Fiennes Tiffin
Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Hero Fiennes Tiffin is an English actor, known for his role as the 11-year-old Tom Marvolo Riddle in the sixth installment of the Harry Potter Films, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), and as Hardin Scott in the films After (2019) and After We Collided (2020). Hero first appeared in the...
12. Scott Eastwood
Actor | Suicide Squad
Scott Eastwood is an American actor and model. He was born as Scott Clinton Reeves in Carmel, Monterey County, California, to Jacelyn Ann Reeves, a flight attendant, and Clint Eastwood, an actor and director. He grew up in Hawaii. Scott has a younger sister, Kathryn Reeves, and many half-siblings.
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13. 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. ...
14. Mahershala Ali
Actor | Leave the World Behind
Mahershala Ali is fast becoming one of the freshest and most in-demand faces in Hollywood with his extraordinarily diverse skill set and wide-ranging background in film, television, and theater.
He can be seen in the independent feature film, Moonlight, as well as reprising his role in The Hunger ...
15. Kofi Siriboe
Actor | Queen Sugar
Kofi Siriboe (born March 2, 1994) is an American actor whose works have spanned theatre, film, and television. He is most notable for his role as Javy Hall in the Fred Durst directed movie 'The Longshots'. He appeared as James Newton on the CBS veteran show 'CSI' during the thirteenth season in the...
16. Barry Keoghan
Actor | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Barry came to prominence in the 2017 film 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' with his truly terrifying portrayal of Martin, an American teenager exacting a grisly revenge on drunken surgeon Colin Farrell, but he was neither an American nor a teenager. Born in Dublin on 17th October 1992, he has a ...
17. Idris Elba
Actor | Beasts of No Nation
An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...
18. Bill Skarsgård
Actor | It
Bill Istvan Gunther Skarsgard is a Swedish actor, producer, director, writer, voice actor, and model. He is best known for portraying Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the supernatural horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), based on Stephen King's novel of the same name. He also voiced the ...
19. Taylor Kitsch
Actor | X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Best known for his portrayal of troubled high school football star "Tim Riggins" on NBC's acclaimed television series, Friday Night Lights (2006), actor Taylor Kitsch has scored big with audiences and critics on both the big and small screens.
Taylor Kitsch was born on April 8, 1981 in Kelowna, ...
20. Anthony Welsh
Actor | The Flatshare
Anthony Welsh was born on July 5, 1983 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Flatshare (2022), Bob Marley: One Love (2024) and Starred Up (2013).
21. Langston Kerman
Writer | Pause with Sam Jay
Langston Kerman was born on April 23, 1987 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Pause with Sam Jay (2021), Bust Down (2022) and The Oscars (2016).
22. Alexander Hodge
Actor | Insecure
Alexander Hodge is known for Insecure (2016), Joy Ride (2023) and Resort to Love (2021).
24. Sarunas J. Jackson
Actor | Insecure
Sarunas J. Jackson was born on March 12, 1990 in Inland Empire, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Insecure (2016), Clipped (2024) and Presumed Innocent (2024).
25. Damson Idris
Actor | Snowfall
Damson Idris is a British actor and producer. Born in 1991 in Peckham South East London to Nigerian parents, he is the youngest of six children. His parents arrived in the UK in search of a better life but he was raised by his single mother, who instilled in him ambition and hard work from a young ...
26. Jordan Calloway
Actor | Black Lightning
Jordan Calloway was born on October 18, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Black Lightning (2018), Riverdale (2017) and Countdown (2019).
27. Curtis Hamilton
Actor | Insecure
In his most notable and first leading role, Curtis Hamilton portrayed Dr. Dre in the award-winning film Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge, & Michel'le. He followed it up with the stellar emotional portrayal of Steve in the true crime movie In Broad Daylight. Hamilton next tackled civil rights activist ...
28. Shane Paul McGhie
Actor | Deputy
Shane Paul McGhie is an American actor who was born in Los Angeles, California to Jamaican parents.
From early childhood Shane had a desire to be on the stage and in front of the camera. At the mere age of 4 Shane was already practicing his Oscar acceptance speeches, perched atop of his couch ...
29. William Levy
Actor | Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
William Levy was born on August 29, 1980 in Havana, Cuba. He is an actor and producer, known for Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016), Addicted (2014) and Montecristo (2023).
30. J.R. Ramirez
Actor | Manifest
J.R. Ramirez was born in Matanzas, Cuba. When he was still a baby, his family moved to the States and he was raised in Tampa, Florida.
J.R. is best known for his series regular role as "Jared Vasquez" on the Netflix (formerly NBC) hit series MANIFEST, executive produced by Robert Zemeckis (2018-2023...
31. Sterling K. Brown
Actor | Black Panther
The Emmy Award-winning actor stars in NBC's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated drama series This Is Us (2016). For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe, becoming the first African-American actor to win his category in ...
32. Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Actor | Luce
Kelvin Harrison Jr. was born on July 23, 1994 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Luce (2019), Monsters and Men (2018) and It Comes at Night (2017).
33. Luke James
Actor | Star
Luke James was born on June 13, 1984 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Star (2016), Black Nativity (2013) and Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018).
34. Justin Chu Cary
Actor | Black Summer
Justin Chu Cary was born and raised in Oakland, California. He is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio.
Cary was cast as a series regular on Netflix's Black Summer (2019-2021). Recently, he starred alongside Dustin Hoffman and Candice Bergen in Mayim Bialik's directorial feature debut, As They ...
35. Theo James
Actor | Divergent
Theo James was born on December 16, 1984 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom as Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis. He is an actor, known for his role as Tobias "Four" Eaton in the films Divergent (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016). He is also known...
36. Melvin Gregg
Actor | The Way Back
Melvin Gregg is an American actor and comedian known for his roles as DeMarcus Tillman in Netflix's mockumentary series American Vandal, Erick Scott in Steven Soderbergh's sports drama film High Flying Bird, Drew 'Manboy' Miller on FX's crime drama Snowfall, and Ben Chandler in the upcoming Hulu ...
37. Dwayne Johnson
Actor | Black Adam
Dwayne Douglas Johnson, also known as The Rock, was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is the son of Ata Johnson (born Feagaimaleata Fitisemanu) and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles). His father, from Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, is black (of Black Nova ...
38. Courtney Burrell
Actor | A Madea Family Funeral
Methodically trained, Burrell has Starred as leading role in his first feature film debut of Tyler Perry's "A Madea family funeral " while playing his Iconic role From Black and Sexy TV series "Chef Julian ", as well as in several guest starring and recurring roles on prime time TV .He also studied...
39. Benicio Del Toro
Actor | Sicario
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-1990s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican policeman in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).
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40. John David Washington
Actor | Tenet
John David Washington is an American actor, producer, and former professional football player. He played college football at Morehouse College and signed with the St. Louis Rams as an Undrafted free agent in 2006. Professionally, Washington spent four years as the running back for the United ...
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