1. Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard was born on 8 November 1952. She was born and brought up in Tulsa, Oklahoma in a middle-class family. The roots of her passion for acting belong to Bishop Kelley High School, Tulsa where her teachers encouraged her to participate in school plays.
To nurture this growing passion she graduated from Boston University having studied fine arts and theater. Although she had performed for the Broadway shows in Washington; two years after graduation, she was blessed with work on the Los Angeles stage that got her an identity- ‘For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf’ (1977).
A year later she got a non-lead role in her first film titled ‘Remember My Name’. It was in a te...
2. Kevin Hart
Kevin Darnell Hart, born July 6 1979, is known for his acting as well as stand-up comedy. Â He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Â He was raised mostly by his mother Nancy as his father, Henry, was in and out of jail due to a drug addiction problem. Â Kevin says he learned early on how to make people laugh because it helped him deal with the emotional turmoil of not having a father. Â He attended Temple University but ultimately dropping out to attend a smaller college in New York. Â He worked as a shoe salesman there while also doing stand-up comedy on the side. Â Hart had a rough start in his career. Â He was booed off stage several times and had food thrown at him. Â Soon enough, however, Hart found his groove and began to succeed. Â He attributes Bill Cosby and Chris Tucker as big influence...