Three-time NCAAP Image Award-winning actress, producer, and director, Terri Jaunita Vaughn is considered a mogul in the film industry. She is famously known for her role as Lovita Jenkins- Robinson on the Steve Harvey Show. Terri was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She was introduced to acting through the Miss Black California Pageant …
Thuso Mbedu was named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2018, and she has been shooting for the stars ever since. After losing her parents at an early age, Thuso Nokwanda Mbedu was brought up by her grandmother in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. She studied physical theatre and performing arts at one of South …
After his debut as King T’challa on Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman became a global superhero. He was named one of the 100 influential people in 2018 by Time 100 and won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in …
Tomi Adeyemi was listed in Times Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2020 and was even called the ‘The New J.K Rowlings’. Adeyemi is a novelist and creative writing coach best known for her award-winning novel, Children of Blood and Bone. Born to Nigerian immigrants, Adeyemi grew up in Chicago where she spent most of …
Regé-Jean Page is a British-Zimbabwean actor best known for his role as Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, in the Netflix series Bridgerton. Page’s mother is a Zimbabwean nurse and his father is an English preacher. He was born in London, but spent his childhood in Harare, Zimbabwe before returning to the UK. He graduated from …
Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor whose parents are from Uganda. He grew up in London and began acting through improvisational theatre before joining the cast of the TV show Skins. After more TV appearances in shows including Black Mirror, Kaluuya went on to a film career. In 2017, his starring role in Jordan Peele’s …
Genevieve Nnaji is an award winning Nigerian actress, producer, and director who is often described as the most popular actress in Nigeria. From her first role in the TV series Ripples to her decades of dominance in Nollywood (with 80 starring roles in two decades and Oprah Winfrey calling her the Julia Roberts of Africa) …
Michaela Coel, born Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, is a British actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and singer born to Ghanaian parents. She grew up in a public housing complex near London where she and her family were one of few Black families; this isolation continued until Coel reached secondary school, when she found herself surrounded by more …
Ladj Ly is a French director and screenwriter whose parents are Malian immigrants. His first feature length film, Les Misérables, won a Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, which marked France’s first submission of a film by a Black filmmaker. The film …
John Boyega is a British-Nigerian actor best known for his role as Finn in the Star Wars franchise, as well as his role in the film Half of a Yellow Sun, based on the novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. He grew up in the Peckham district of London as the son of Nigerian immigrants; his …
