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Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by Hermanie(m): 7:28pm On Jun 03, 2015
With the thousands of hollywood movies I've seen, here are my personal top 10 hollywood black actors. This list is my own opinion and i'll liike to other people's too. So how do you think the list should be arranged and who is missing

1.Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr.
Was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis (Lowe), from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University...

2.Morgan Freeman
With an authoritative voice and calm demeanor, this ever popular American actor has grown into one of the most respected figures in modern US cinema. Morgan was born in June 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mayme Edna (Revere), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman, a barber. The young Freeman attended...

3.Will Smith
Willard Carroll Smith, Jr. was born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second of four children of Caroline (Bright), a school board employee, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., who owned a refrigeration company. He grew up in a middle class area in West Philadelphia called Wynnefield. Will attended the Overbrook High School located in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia...

4.Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson was born in Washington, D.C., to Elizabeth (Montgomery) and Roy Henry Jackson. He was raised by his mother, a factory worker. Jackson was active in the black student movement. In the seventies, he joined the Negro Ensemble Company (together with Morgan Freeman). In the eighties, he became well known after three movies made by Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing...

Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by pinkiberry(m): 7:30pm On Jun 03, 2015
cute guys making us proud
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by pinkiberry(m): 7:30pm On Jun 03, 2015
cute guys making us proud
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by Hermanie(m): 7:38pm On Jun 03, 2015
5.Jamie Foxx
Largely under rated anybody who has seen the soloist or django knows he is the best out of last couple of years!

6.Forest Whitaker
He's just an amazing actor - after Vantage Point, Last King of Scotland, the Colour of Money... he is undoubtedly one of the best actors out there!


7.Danny Glover
Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 25 years. Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights. Glover trained at the Black Actors' Workshop of the American Conservatory Theater...

8.Laurence Fishburne
One of Hollywood's most talented and versatile performers and the recipient of a truckload of NAACP Image awards, Laurence John Fishburne III was born in Augusta, Georgia on July 30, 1961, to Hattie Bell (Crawford), a teacher, and Laurence John Fishburne, Jr., a juvenile corrections officer. His mother transplanted her family to Brooklyn after his parents divorced...

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Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by ebamma(m): 9:16pm On Jun 03, 2015
Where is Terrence Howard and Cuba Gooding
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by ovalrose(f): 11:10am On Jun 04, 2015
this list is soooo correckete! after these men,all others just get in line.
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by clerkent(m): 2:59pm On Jun 04, 2015
hahahahaha.u miss the number 1.Eddie murphy shld be number one
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by blackmartial(m): 11:44am On Jun 06, 2015
Martin Lawrence did not make your list? try again.
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by blackmartial(m): 11:50am On Jun 06, 2015
@op Martin Lawrence did not make your list? try again.
Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by rodeo0070(m): 4:01pm On Jun 07, 2015
Nice one OP. Permit me to add these guys:
Idris Elba and Michael Ealy...

Re: Top 10 Hollywood Black Actors by tpiah11: 1:33pm On Oct 24, 2015
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