1. Tessa Thompson
Tessa Thomspon is a musician and Hollywood actress. She is famous for her roles in crime drama film Copper as Sara Freeman, Selma as civil rights activist Diane Nash, and in the television film Veronica Mars as Jackie Cook. Tessa is a versatile personality and has excelled in various fields like Stage Drama, Films, Television, and Music. Thompson was born on 3 October 1989 in Los Angeles, California. Tessa has studied from Santa Monica High School and later attended Santa Monica College, where she studied Cultural Anthropology.
Her full name is Tessa Lyne Thompson; she has Afro – Panamanian, Mexican, and European ancestry, as her father has African ancestry and mother has half European and half Mexican descent. Tessa’s father was a songwriter, singer, and musician and he was working for the Chocolat...
2. Lily James
Lily James’s full and real name is Lily Chole Ninette Thomson. Lily is an actor working in Movies, TV Series, and Theatres. Lily started her career in 2010, and now it has been nine years in Hollywood. Lily’s mother named ‘Ninette’ is an actor, and her father named ‘James Thomas’ was a musician. Lily’s father died due to cancer in 2008. At that time to give a tribute to her father, she changed her last name and named it after his father. Lily’s Grand Mother named ‘Helen Horton’ was also an actor. Lily’s boyfriend is Matt Smith. Matt Smith is also an actor, and currently, they are dating. Lily always knew that she wants to be an actor because of which she completed her graduation in acting in Guildhall Scholl of Music and Arts in London and attended Tring Park School for ...
3. Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson was born on 9 May, 1979. Her star sign is Taurus. She is from New York City, U.S. Rosario Dawson an American actress as well as a singer.
She started her career at the age of 15 and was starred in her first movie in 1995 ‘ kids.’ She did a lot of movies in the coming years.
In 2001 she did the movie ‘ Josie and the Pussycats and in 2002 she did the movie ‘25th hour’. She has been continuously working for movies and singing songs . She is a fabulous mother with an amazing career. She adopted a 11- year- old girl in 2014.
She had faced a lot in her life as when a trans man, Derek Finley, filed a case against her and her family for discrimination , misgendering , physical assault . He was employed as a handyman by their family and had been livin...
4. Forest Whitaker
An Academy Award winning actor. Showcased a stunning achievement, blistering performances, and heart pounding plus brilliant actor-director – Forest Whitaker. Born as Forest Steven Whitaker III on July 15th 1961 from Texas, United States. He first appeared in the 1982 movie “Tag: the Assassination Game” and as Charles Jefferson in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” These were his beginning as a newcomer in Hollywood industry. He made a breakthrough in the 1986 movie “Platoon.” It is a story of new rookie soldier who façades the cruelty of war and questions in the dichotomy of man.
This was then followed with the movie “Good Morning Vietnam” in 1987 alongside Robin Williams. A story of a fresh-air DJ that takes soldiers away from the cruelty of Vietnam War. He made another sparky character as he exploits the life of Charl...
5. Doug Emmett
Doug Emmet is a cinematographer working for Hollywood movies. Currently, Doug is shooting a film called 'I Care A Lot' which is directed by J. Blakeson for the production house namely Black Bear Pictures.
His most recent feature film namely 'Sorry To Bother You', which was written & directed by Boots Riley, was screened at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
The film has also been nominated for Gotham and Indie Spirit Awards after it's long theatrical run. He recently wrapped season 1 of a dark thriller series called 'Tell Me A Story' and photographed HBO's 'Room 104'. This original series called 'Room 104' challenged Emmett for shooting twenty-four half-hour episodes all entirely in one hotel room.
...6. Lakeith Stanfield
Lakeith Lee Stanfield, brought into the world on August 12, 1991, here and there known as Keith Stanfield, is an American on-screen character and rapper. He made his component film debut in the 2013 autonomous dramatization Short Term 12, for which he was designated for an Independent Spirit Award. He got further acknowledgment for his appearances in various true to life films, including as social liberties lobbyist Jimmie Lee Jackson in Selma (2014), Snoop Dogg in Straight Outta Compton (2015), and Patrick Haynes in Snowden (2016). Stanfield additionally featured in the activity blood and gore movie The Purge: Anarchy (2014), the satire show film Dope (2015), the thriller Get Out (2017), the dream spine chiller film Death Note (2017), a thrill ride 'The Girl in the Spider's Web', followed by a sci-fi parody film Sorry to B...
7. Armie Hammer
Born with the name Armand Douglas Hammer, Armand is an American actor. He was born to Dru Ann and Michael Armand Hammer on 28 of August in the year 1986 in L.A, California, USA. His father, Michael, owns a production company and publishing house. Armie also has a younger brother Viktor. He went to schools like Faulkner’s Academy and also went to Grace Christian Academy. He has spent some of his years of education in L. A. Baptist High School.
During his school times, Armie realised that he was meant for something much more, so he dropped out of school and went on to follow his heart and pursue a career in the Hollywood industry as an actor. Armie’s parents disapproved initially and were not too happy and supportive of the fact that their son had left hi...
8. Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover is an American film director, political activist, and actor. He was born on 22nd July 1946 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of James Clover and Carrie. His parents were active members to work for equal rights in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Glover studied at George High School in Washington, California. For his graduation, he went to San Francisco State University. However, he could not complete that. Later, SFSU rewarded him a degree. He used to train at the workshop of Black Actors of the American Theater. Later, in his adolescent period, he suffered from a disease called epilepsy.
Coming to Glover’s career, before moving to the theater, he worked in the a...
9. David Cross
David Cross comes from a mixed heritage, his mother Susi is said to be American and father Barry hails from Yorkshire, England. David grew up in the States and did not have his father around him while growing up. It is said that his father left him when he was a child and they settled in Georgia. Having a dysfunctional family, David was born with the funny bone and he began his Stand-up acts when he was in the school itself.
He graduated from Northside High School in Atlanta and he was already into Stand-up comedy. He gained popularity for his talent but since he did not have a Godfather, nor did he have a fool proof plan on his career, he picked up meager jobs like working with lawn care companies and so on. David, after realizing that his life was going nowhere, joined college. But he could study only a ...
10. Omari Hardwick
Omari Latif Hardwick is an American actor, known, who was born on January 9th, 1974. He is known for his roles in the TV series Saved and Dark Blue, in Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna (2008), and, The A-Team (2010), Kick-Ass (2010), in Tyler Perry's For Colored Girls (2010) and as Andre in BET Network's Being Mary Jane.
He currently stars as James "Ghost" St. Patrick in Starz's Power. Hardwick was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of Joyce and Clifford Hardwick III, an attorney. Growing up in Decatur, Georgia, Hardwick wrote poetry regularly and participated in many sports. For high school, he attended Marist School in Atlanta, Georgia where he excelled in baseball, basketball, and football, which eventually led him to a football scholarship for the University of Georgia.
Even though he was a ...
11. Terry Crews
Born on July 30, 1968, Michigan, U.S, Terry Alan Crews is an American former football player, artist, actor, and activist. He is the son of Terry Crews Sr and Patricia Crews. He experienced childhood in a strict Christian family unit in Flint and raised by his mom; his dad was a damaging alcoholic who "threatened" the family.
After winning his secondary school diploma from Flint Southwestern, he got a Chrysler-supported the art scholarship in Interlochen at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He got an Art Excellence grant and a full athletic grant for football at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
Crews gained All-Conference respects and won the Mid-American Conference Championship in 1988 for the WMU Broncos as a defensive end. The Los Angeles Rams selected Crews in the eleventh round of the 1991 NFL...