Tagged Actress

Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918–August 17, 1990) was an African American singer and actress whose career spanned nearly fifty years in all forms of entertainment from Vaudeville to Broadway to Cinema. Her un...

“America was not geared to make me into a Liz Taylor, a Monroe, a Gardner.” ~Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Dandridge was the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress...

Juanita Moore was an Oscar-nominated African-American actress, best known for her starring role in the remake of Imitation of Life (1959). Moore was the fifth African American to be nominated for an Academy Awa...

Quvenzhané Wallis was the youngest actress ever to receive a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She is known for her role as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), 12 Y...

African American actress Gail Fisher broke several barriers as a young Black actress in television during the 1960s. She was the first Black performer to get dialogue in a nationally aired commercial, and as Pe...

Henrietta Vinton Davis was a Shakespearean actor and public speaker. She was proclaimed by Marcus Garvey to be “the greatest woman of the race”. Davis has come to be considered the physical, intellectual,...

Diahann Carroll was the first African-American actress in television history to star in her own weekly comedy TV series, Julia. Born July 17, 1935, Carroll's acting career has spanned nearly six decades. She is...

Born June 30th, 1917, in Brooklyn, New York, Lena Horne was known as one of the most popular African American entertainers of the twentieth century. Horne was born into an upper middle class Black family, but ...

"No one can figure out your worth but you." Pearl Bailey was born on March 29, 1918, in Newport News, Virginia. The daughter of a preacher, Bailey began singing at the tender age of three. Her brother, ente...