The daughter of a sheikh from the African Sudan Princess Kouka arrives in London, 1937. After starring in the Jericho movie with Paul Robeson, she was in several Egyptian films and went by simply as Kouka. She played a character named “Gara” in a movie with Paul Robeson. It was released in 1937 and called “Jericho” […]
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Ex-Model & Actress: Halle Berry
Prince presenting Halle Berry – 42nd NAACP Image Awards. Halle Berry was recognized as best actress in a motion picture for her role in Frankie & Alice. https://youtu.be/mmXssz_O89A?t=26s She is an American actress, film producer, and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in the romantic […]
Ex-Model, Actress & Singer: Vanity AKA Denise Katrina Matthews
Nationality: Canadian Ethnicity: She is African American and German. Born Denise Katrina Matthews, Vanity is a glamorous Canadian ex-model and lead singer of the all-girl group “Vanity 6” of German and African/American , she specialized in playing sultry female characters often in trouble with the law. (CNN) Vanity fronted the group Vanity 6 but was best […]
Actor: James Earl Jones as Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian
There are numerous talented black actors that can play the role of Kings and Queens, whether it’s based on Historical Facts, Legends, Fantasy & Sci-Fi futuristic movies. For instance this photo above is Thulsa Doom he is a fictional character first appearing in the Kull short story “Delcardes’ Cat” by Robert E. Howard. He has […]
Alternative visual concept for “GODS Of EGYPT” movie
Please keep in mind that Egypt was invaded numerous times in the past. –“The Sorceress”, illustrated by Chris Dacus They could cast actors that looks similar to the people in the Maghreb Region & as far down the Nile River which is an international river that flows through 11 countries that include Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, […]
Actress: Gina Torres
Nationality: American Ethnicity: West Indies/Caribbean. Her parents were both of multiracial Cuban descent. She is 5’10 ft tall. She is an American television and movie actress. She has appeared in many television series, including Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (as Nebula), Xena: Warrior Princess (as Cleopatra), the short-lived Cleopatra 2525, Alias (as Anna Espinosa), Firefly (as Zoe […]
Celebrities who you probably didn’t know are half-black
List of Famous People Who Are Half-Black. Every year, more and more people are born of parents of different races. Some very famous people have one black parent and one white parent, or any other ethnicity. Many of these celebs identify with both of their unique cultures. Several half-Black celebrities have gone on to have […]
Whoopi Goldberg’s Shoe Collection
Whoopi Goldberg , is an American actress, comedian, and television host. She has been nominated for 13 Emmy Awards for her work in television, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Oscar, and a Tony Award. She was only the second black woman in the […]
Brazilian Model & Actress: Taís Araújo
Nationality: Brazilian Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ethnicity: African, Austrian and Portuguese descent. Brazil’s population includes the largest number of people of African descent in the entire Western Hemisphere. Ms. Araújo became the first black actress to be a leading character of a telenovela in prime time of the largest Brazilian television network, Rede Globo. An artist rendition of her beauty below – @_jd_m […]
Actress: Lesley-Ann Brandt
A South African-born actress (of Cape Coloured descent) who is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and Los Angeles, United States. She speaks English and Afrikaans. You’re probably still asking what makes a “Colored”, “Colored”. Well like the name suggests, it is someone of many colors. My heritage consists of German, ( my last name), Indian, British and […]
The Lovings
The film focuses on the battle to overturn laws against mixed-race marriages. Seven years after a marriage that Virginia deemed illegal. The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other. Their marriage violated the state’s […]
Iman’s Husband David Bowie Dies Of Cancer
Bowie married the supermodel in a romantic ceremony in Florence, Italy on 24 April, 1992. The couple were often regarded as one of the most stable in the public eye having been married for 24 years. They have one daughter, Alexandria Zahra Jones, born 15 August 2000. Iman is now a single parent raising a teenage daughter on […]
Controversy behind Gods of Egypt movie 2016
This time period is supposed to be in the old kingdom/5th dynasty (2494 B.C. – 2345 B.C.). ‘Gods of Egypt’ Director, Studio Apologize for Lack of Diverse Casting: ‘We Can Do Better’ Lionsgate also acknowledged the need for more inclusive casting in a statement obtained by Variety, which reads: “We recognize that it is our responsibility […]
The Josephine Baker Story
Legendary black American stage performer who took pre-World War II Europe by storm but found constant racial harassment in her homeland.
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920’s and 1930’s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975.
Today in history, June 3rd, 1906… dancer, singer and actress Freda Josephine McDonald (aka Josephine Baker), who gained fame in Paris, France, thanks to her “risque” cabaret and musical hall performances, was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
While Ms Baker did perform on screen in a number of films – Siren of the Tropics (1927), Zouzou (1934) andPrincesse Tam Tam (1935), notably – she’s probably more universally recognized for her vaudeville stage musical acts which helped her become maybe the first international black female celebrity.
She was also politically active, making contributions to the Civil Rights Movement here in the United States, and assisted the French Resistance during World War II, becoming the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
She died on April 12th, 1975 at age 68.
Since then, there’s really been only 1 true attempt to tell her story on film – the 1991, HBO movie, The Josephine Baker Story, which starred Lynn Whitfield as Baker. Whitfield would go on to win an Emmy Award for her performance!
Actress & Singer: Dorothy Dandridge As Carmen Jones
In 1943, Oscar Hammerstein Jr. took Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, rewrote the lyrics, changed the characters from 19th century Spaniards to World War II-era African-Americans, switched the locale to a Southern military base, and the result was Carmen Jones. Dorothy Dandridge stars as Carmen Jones, tempestuous employee of a parachute factory. Harry Belafonte plays Joe (originally José), a young military officer engaged to marry virginal Cindy Lou (Olga James). When Carmen gets into a fight with another girl, she is placed under arrest and put in Joe’s charge. Succumbing to her attractiveness, Joe accompanies Carmen to her old neighborhood, where, after killing a sergeant sent to retrieve him, he deserts the army. Carmen tries to be faithful, but fortune-telling Frankie (Pearl Bailey) warns her that she and her soldier are doomed. Enter Joe Adams in the role of boxer Husky Miller (a play on Carmen’s bullfighter Escamillo), who sweeps Carmen off her feet, ultimately with tragic consequences. Alhough both Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte were singers, their opera voices were dubbed in by LeVern Hutcherson and Marilyn Horne.
Actress: Halle Berry As Catwoman
Nationality: American. Ethnicity: Mother Caucasian & Father African American. Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Pitof and stars Halle Berry, The film is loosely based on the DC Comics character of the same name, who is traditionally an anti-heroine and love interest of the vigilante hero Batman. The catsuit was designed by […]
Actress & Singer: Eartha Kitt as Catwoman
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Mother is Cherokee & African American & Father Dutch or German descent. Her surname Kitt is said to be of Dutch or German origin. In the late 1960s, Batman featured recurring villain Kitt as Catwoman after Julie Newmar had left the role, in season 3. https://youtu.be/zXrLJEN0jAQ She had sung and danced her way […]
The Story of Blacks in Hollywood
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this deliciously entertaining history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them. Through interviews and the […]
Random Akasha Inspired Tattoos, Paintings & Drawings
Akasha was played by Aaliyah Dana Haughton , she was an American singer, dancer, actress, and model. The a fictitious character was written by Famous author Anne Rice. Queen Akasha was the first vampire in existence that came from Egypt. She was known among vampires as the “Queen of the Damned”. The Queen of the Damned (1988) is […]
Model and Actress: Denise Vasi
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Caribbean Hispanic/Afro-Latina Her father is of Dominican descent and her mother is Greek/Puerto Rican. A Brooklyn native, Vasi signed to Ford Models at the age of 12. Quote: For modeling they said I was too tiny, I wasn’t Caucasian enough, I wasn’t African enough, I wasn’t Latina enough. They kept saying no but I kept moving […]
Model & Actress: Chanokporn Sayoungkul
Nationality: Thai Ethnicity: (Thailand) South East Asian http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/movies/headshot-directed-by-pen-ek-ratanaruang. Bangkok is the largest city, business and industrial center of Thailand. Thailand is a country on Southeast Asia’s Indochina peninsula known for tropical beaches, opulent royal palaces, ancient ruins and ornate temples displaying figures of Buddha, a revered symbol. In Bangkok, the capital, an ultramodern city […]
Brazilian Actress and Model: Ildi Silva
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Brazilians are of mixed heritage Trade Mark: Her green eyes Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil is the largest country in both South America and theLatin American region. It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. […]
Brazilian Actress & Model: Débora Nascimento
Nationality: Brazilian Place of birth: Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is 5’10 ft tall. Television Actress, Model and Personality. Débora Nascimento began her acting career as the lead character of the short film Cérbero, directed by Gastão Coimbra, and making a guest role on a television show called Paraíso Tropical novel/soap, as Elisa. https://youtu.be/Hu4kzd5WMeY?t=14s https://youtu.be/w2mdM7JoBGM Q&A with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. […]
Beauty Queen, Model and Actress: Micaela Reis
Nationality: Angolan Ethnicity: Her mother is Angolan, African and her father is Portuguese. Micaela Patrícia Reis born in Angola is an Angolan actress, TV presenter, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was a Top 10 finalist at Miss Universe 2007 and placed first runner-up to Miss World 2007, becoming Miss World Africa. She was the […]
Brazilian Model: Marina Nery
Nationality: Brazilian She Speaks Brazilian Portuguese and English. From Bahia, Brazil.Why did you become a model? I was scouted in school. What do you think about fashion? I think it’s like a work of art. Describe your style to us. I don’t know, I try to be both elegant and pretty, I really like skirts […]
Model: Melanie Gaydos
A MODEL has hit the big time despite suffering from a rare genetic condition that severely affects her appearance. Melanie Gaydos, 26, was born with Ectodermal Dysplasia, a condition that has left her hair, teeth and skin undeveloped. She often draws stares from other models that are not used to her unconventional […]
Model & Actress: Isis Samassa Betaudier
Nationality: British Ethnicity: English, Trinidadian, Spanish and French. She speaks 3 languages fluently -French, Spanish and English. She trained at Italia Conti and then after was accepted at the age of 16 into Studio Centre. General Dance Skills: Ballet, Bellydance, Contemporary, Jazz, Latin American. https://vimeo.com/121405559 Rehearsing for a casting in Paris, France. […]
Brazilian Model and Actress: Camila Pitanga
Nationality: Brazilian Ethnicity: Afro-Brazilian Camila Manhães Sampaio, better known as Camila Pitanga, is a Brazilian film and television actress, former fashion design model and television presenter. “Pitanga”, her real surname, is also the name of an acid and exotic tropical fruit of Brazilian Northeast. Camila Pitanga’s father and brother below Camila Pitanga’s […]
Model: Paloma Jimenez & Vin Diesel
Nationality: Mexican Ethnicity: Latina Paloma Jimenez was born in Acapulco, Mexico. Girlfriend Paloma Jimenez is pregnant with Vin Diesel’s 3rd child Vin’s mother has English, German and Scottish ancestry, while Vin’s biological father’s identity and background are not publicly known. Vin has described himself as “definitely a person of color”, and has stated that he is also […]
Beauty Queen, Actress & Model: Nidhi Sunil
Nationality: Indian She’s from Bangalore. Nidhi Sunil used to work as an environment lawyer. Nidhi Sunil as the Pantaloons Femina Miss India South 2011 second runner up. Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of about 8.42 million and a […]