Top Ten Black Actresses

Talented, beautiful and all too often overlooked, these are the very best black actresses. Hopefully some of the recent accolades directed towards these women will bring them even more prominent and important roles in films to come. Don't agree with the list? Place your vote or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on.

Vote for Thandie Newton 1) Thandie Newton

so beautiful and talented its amazing she doesnt own Hollywood!!

Should be listed among the top ten actresses, period.

definately one of the better actresses. She was superb in Beloved, Crash and MI but also some of her lesser known british films


Vote for Halle Berry 2) Halle Berry

very good actress....thomasville, georgia..part of southwest

she has many good performances in many valorous movies

MatrixGuy

Two things, she can act and she is HOT!

RdrTech


Vote for Angela Bassett 3) Angela Bassett

I love Angela Bassett. I think she’s beautiful and graceful. She sets a perfect example for actresses like myself. I had the pleasure of meeting her once and she told me to be persistent. I will always remember and forver be greatful for that encounter.
Tiara Williams

Beautiful, classy and a damn good actress! She was robbed for What’s Love Got to Do With It. LOVE HER

steffie69

I know for a fact that Angela Basset is an aspiring and great person t look up to. I love her work and she was the perfect person to play Tina Turner. I look up to her and she has inspired me


Vote for Raven-Symoné 4) Raven-Symoné

Awsome voice and so funny and I love her show "that’s so raven".

Greenmas88

she’s very talented and beautiful


Vote for Gabriel Union 5) Gabriel Union

she is gorgeous and she can act.


Vote for Nia Long 6) Nia Long

She has great potential. I love her.

Nia Long is a powerful, black actress.She brings so much force and intensity to a movie "The Best Man" she gave an outstanding performance and have a unique beauty I wish we seen her more often.

I can really relate to Nia Long in the documentary Behind the Color Line.


Vote for Sanaa Lathan 7) Sanaa Lathan

she is an excellent actress and also beautiful !

She’s a man’s dream woman.

Very beautiful Great actress


Vote for Queen Latifah 8) Queen Latifah

She’s what you call naturally funny.

The Oprah Winfrey of Hollywood!


Vote for Regina King 9) Regina King

Regina is not seen often enough, another very beautiful good actress

Regina is great actress. She needs more work. I remember growing up with her on "227". Who would thought, she had such an edge to herself


Vote for Pam Grier 10) Pam Grier

STUNNING! My choice since the ?70s. Graceful and elegant.

I LOVED PAM GRIER IN BONES AND IN FOXY BROWN.


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Choices Not In The Top Ten

Vote for Vanessa Williams 11) Vanessa Williams

beautiful and good actress

beautiful,funny,and romantic

Vote for Whoopi Goldberg 12) Whoopi Goldberg

Love her shes hilarios

Why is she not in the top ten?

tarot_contralto

Vote for Kerry Washington 13) Kerry Washington

she is beautiful and great in every movie she is in

Kerry Washington should definitly be in the top list of 10 black actresses. She has done amazing work from save the last dance,to The Last King of Scotland. I aspire to have a career as diverse and interesting as hers.

Best black actress and one of the most beautiful women in the world. Put $ that she will become one of the best actresses of any ethnic background

Vote for Jada Pinkett Smith 14) Jada Pinkett Smith

loved her in set it off and scream2, even though she was only in the first scene.

tommy21

Jada Pinkett plays good in all her roles. She’s very beautiful and she knows how to act.

Vote for Cicely Tyson 15) Cicely Tyson

a great actress, very dramatic and genius in all her roles

Cicely Tyson is by far the best actress of any race to have ever acted and also the most unrecognized and underrated ever.

Vote for Hattie McDaniel 16) Hattie McDaniel

Had one of the great comebacks of all-time when black journalists criticized her for playing maids. "I’d rather play a maid than be one, " said Hattie.

One of the true "original black actresses". The FIRST African-American to win an Oscar.

Vote for Meagan Good 17) Meagan Good

a fantastic actress and a real head turner. she has the presence to be a great leading lady.

Vote for Beyonce Knowles 18) Beyonce Knowles

She may not count as an actress, but she was great in Dream Girls.

Vote for Tamala Jones 19) Tamala Jones

this babe is HOT

She is a great Actress she, and is very attractive. She was Chris Rock love interest in the Head Of State.

Vote for CCH Pounder 20) CCH Pounder

one of the most overlooked actresses of all

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Vote for Dorothy Dandridge 21) Dorothy Dandridge

she was wonderful and very beautiful.

Dorothy Dandridge has to be the MOST GREATEST actress ever... she was the first African-American woman to appear at the Las Vegas Frontier and to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress!.. She broke color lines back then... she is the person that gives confidence and inspiration to African-American actresses and inspiring actresses, like myself, to go out for those big roles!

I CAN’T believe you people have Dorothy at no. 17! It’s obvious that you don’t know great actresses when you see them. This list is bias! How can you rate actresses that are alive with actresses that are NOT ALIVE! Sorry! I hate this listing!

Vote for Vivica A. Fox 22) Vivica A. Fox

she be in the top 10 if not #1 she has style, class, beauty, she just it going. i just love the woman to death.

Vote for Kimberly Elise 23) Kimberly Elise

Someone must have been napping, this fine actress belongs in the top 10. Let’s put it this way, she will be the next black actress to win an Oscar, wait and see.

Honey, she is a FIERCE actress. ...and a stunningly beautiful woman.

Vote for Stacey Dash 24) Stacey Dash

What more can you say about Stacey Dash? Extremely beautiful, very talented, and if it weren’t enough, her smile lights up any movie as well as my heart.

Vote for Zoe Saldana 25) Zoe Saldana

I discovered zoe in Centerstage. she is multitalented, a terrific dancer and a fabulous actress. its a shame she’s not in more films. in crossroads her role was to overact, but in centerstage, she’s easygoing and relaxed

yes

She’s played in Crossroads, and although maybe over-acted a little, she seems funny. And she was great in the small part of Anamarie in Pirates 1.

Vote for Lonette McKee 26) Lonette McKee

I really wished she had gotten more significant parts in movies. She really has acting chops. She should have been pushed long before someone like Halle Berry :-/

Vote for Oprah Winfrey 27) Oprah Winfrey

This women should be way up that list people need to realize the influential roles that she has chosen to do and do well.

yea

Vote for Sheila Frazier 28) Sheila Frazier

Vote for Elise Neal 29) Elise Neal

I like Elise Neal she playsed Tia on All of Us

Elise Neal is the finest. Malinda Williams is fine too.

Vote for Taraji P. Henson 30) Taraji P. Henson

I thank she is wonderful, I have enjoyed every movie she has appeared in. She has been great as a supportive actress. I know she would be great in a lead role. So please give her the recognition she deserves.

Vote for Rosario Dawson 31) Rosario Dawson

Vote for Naomi Harris 32) Naomi Harris

When it comes to acting Naomi Harris is the best black actress by miles. White Teeth, 28 Days and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Vote for Heather Headley 33) Heather Headley

drop dead gorgeous, fierce yet with a dose of simplicity and great charm on the stage, an immense strength shining from somewhere within... but when her mouth opens and her voice takes flight, oh man, nobody can sing and act Aida like she does. Beyonce doesn’t stand a chance.

Vote for Angelle Brooks 34) Angelle Brooks

Beautiful and acts so refined. Her films include Ritual (2000), The TV series V. I. P.

Vote for Marianne Jean-Baptiste 35) Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Vote for Ruby Dee 36) Ruby Dee

Great on screen presence and longevity

Greenmean

Vote for Vonetta McGee 37) Vonetta McGee

Vote for Paula Patton 38) Paula Patton

I like to see her do more work. I think there is something to her. I enjoyed her performance in Idlewild. She really resonates with the camera. I hope one day she can give Halle Berry a run for her money. She’s just as pretty and more importantly...she can Act, unlike Ms. Berry

Vote for Diana Sands 39) Diana Sands

Vote for Rosalind Cash 40) Rosalind Cash

Vote for Margaret Avery 41) Margaret Avery

Vote for Porter McKenna Posey 42) Porter McKenna Posey

Kady, My wife and kids, Sure she’s only a child actress but she’s an extremely natural talent and will no doubt go on to be a very good adult actress.

Vote for Tamara Dobson 43) Tamara Dobson

Vote for Tania Benjamin 44) Tania Benjamin

Vote for Paula Kelly 45) Paula Kelly

Vote for Gloria Hendry 46) Gloria Hendry