Top Ten Black Actresses

WOW GOOD ACTING, BEAUTIFUL GIRL, VERSITLE ACTRESS, GORGEOUS ALL OVER. ONE OF THE BEST EVER

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

hale is good specially in her winning movie "the monster Ball"

The best Actress Ever, and should be doing big things in 2010.. We haven't seen much of her lately

Raven-Symone is Voted the best Black Actress of all-Time because she Truly is. She is not Overrated like Halle Berry because her Ethnicity she can actually Act, and is Kind to everyone she meets. Raven also can Sing, Rap, Act, and Produce.

rose from a show in Disney and becoming very popular

anthonybecerra831

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

No doubt! Whoopi is #1 here

Alexandr

She is the most succesful black actress according to box office and the oscars.

israel08

she is gorgeous and she can act.

She looks and acts like the perfect angel. Gorgeous, sexy and very talented.

Just love her! Very Good actress, I know for a fact she is one of the best ones out there, I think so anyway..

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

What?! Number 6 This woman should be number 1. I have never seen her act terribly in anything. How can Halle Berry be number 1? Faking an orgasam is hardly brilliant acting smh!

SHE IS COOL SHE ALSO HAS A VERY GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR BRILLIANT ACTRESS THE ONE WHO PEOPLE SHOULD LOOK UP TOO

Love her role in Hairspray!

manatee24

she's a beautiful actress simlpy I love her

skipmull

Come On! Quenn Latifah should be much further up then this are you kidding? Have you not seen The Secret Life Of Bees?

Dinky2191

she is an excellent actress and also beautiful !

Hands down. Did you see her in the family that prays. She was an evil bitch. She was also in love and Basketball which was a good movie.

sanaa should be number 1 she is gorgeous andd she starred in the best movie ever love and basketball also she has her own natural hair and she is a philanthripist. she's amazing

terren65

+2I LOVED PAM GRIER IN BONES AND IN FOXY BROWN.

Beautiful, sexy and used the camera to her benefit. Not many new stars can
Measure up to her.

From what I"ve seen from Nia, she's been superb. I really love to see her do a dramatic role because I know she'd blow it away. They need to give Nia more than just romantic comedies, she's so talented.

greeneyes1968

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.

She has great potential. I love her.

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

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

beautiful and good actress

Very versatile and talented actress/singer. Not to mention Underrated and overlooked!

Irina2932

For what I've known of Beyonce... She's so perfect in talent... She have a lots of talents.. Not only as a singer, but she can do actor, a stylist and also she can dance. So I think that Beyonce should be in the above list the top ten...

The thing with beyonce is that she is more versatile when it comes to acting. As she can act in a dramatic film - obsessed
an action film - obsessed
a comedy - the pink panther and austin powers:goldmember
BUT, she can also act in a musical film because of her being a singer also as she's acted in dreamgirls. This makes her a better actress as most of the other actresses do not have a good enough voice to act in a musical.

fisto77

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

+1Meagan good is the most beautiful african american actress

+1all I can say is this girl is too hot for t. v. this girl is one of my favorite I wish she was mine

+1shes one of the best actresses I know and shes pretty hot

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.

she is beautiful and great in every movie she is in

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

Definitely a star on the rise! Love everything she has done the last few years.

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

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.

+2Cicely Tyson is by far the best actress of any race to have ever acted and also the most unrecognized and underrated ever.

+1a great actress, very dramatic and genius in all her roles

Ms. Tyson plays roles that seem to have meaning for her. Her tender and conflicted portrayal in The Help was melting.

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

Her acting is flawless and she looks like me! Her roles are versatile and she really gets into character for every film

love her acting in the movie LIGHT IT UP next to usher gosh I would watch dat movie all day

+1loved 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.

How is that hack beyonce ahead of vivica fox?

Chris-1

Aside from being exceptionally beautiful, sexy and classy, Vivica is A FOX who has superb acting skills. She is great in film and on stage. I think she was especially dynamic in "Two Can Play That Game. "

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.

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.

“Easily one of the best young actress around. A true scene stealer in just about everything she does. Commands attention on screen without having to remove her clothes. Top shelf.

“She is one of the best and is fully under rated. She always get the job done she is just amazing I wish people could see that

“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.

+1One of the true "original black actresses". The FIRST African-American to win an Oscar.

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 most overlooked actresses of all

“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!

she's just an amazin' actress period. Been in the game for along time and she still looks beautiful as ever!

I like Elise Neal she playsed Tia on All of Us

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

“Very pretty in Neil Simon's California Suite. Hope to meet her some day.

“I'm 25 yrs old and most would be surprised I even know who this woman is, but she's one of my favorites... Sparkle is my favorite movies. I still watch clips of this woman on YouTube lol

“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 :-/

In her appearances on Martin and The Cheetah Girls 2, she looked smoking hot that I couldn't control myself. If I ever met her in the street and she looked the way she did then, I'd grab that sweet ass and kiss her hard. It's a compliment.

Lynn is very underrated. Shes beautiful, very talented and full of class

kimigans

I'll say this. She's a great actress and a total fox. I imagine that she's my drama teacher ('because I'm sure she could teach it well) and that I have a thing for her, then we eventually make love on the sofa of the drama room. That's how great I think she is, in more than one way.

+2This women should be way up that list people need to realize the influential roles that she has chosen to do and do well.

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

“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

Very Beautiful, I like her role in one of Martins sitcom.. Plus she has a good voice.. Know I would love to meet this women!

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

“Did she get a grammy for Precious lol but for real I don't have cable! But even before Precious I have always loved Mo'Nique... she is truly an inspiration!

Great on screen presence and longevity

Greenmean

“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.

“She is one of the most successful singer turned actress and producer without a flop to her name.

Ms. Avery is a screen legend and acting Royalty. Her emmy-nominated performance in 'the color purple' is unforgettable. As a young child, I remember watching her play "shug" and thinking "if she's beautiful, successful and colored" (as my grandma used to say) than I can be, too.

“Was in the movie The Secret Life of Bees. Just starting to act.

brettfan

Aaliyah is a legend and was an incredible actress who was destined for so much success, shame she's no longer with us :'(

I love Aaliyah so much she'll be missed, she was such a great actress in Queen of the Damned and Romeo must Die, R.I.P Aaliyah.

She was amazing in Romeo Must Die with Jet Li... it's jst a pity we didn't get to see more of her. She was the evil Queen In Queen Of The Damned as well.

“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.

“Brazilian actress who became the first black actress to appear as a main character in a telenovela (soap) on Brazilian television.

brettfan

"Baker was the first African American female to star in a major motion picture, to integrate an American concert hall, and to become a world-famous entertainer. (wikipedia)" she broke the glass ceiling for all these other women. she was a visionary and revolutionary and knew how to sell the goods. she rocks on forEVER.

Love her. Saw her in Newark, N.J. when I was about nine years old..
Being a shy kid I did not go to the stage when she (Ms Baker) asked the children in the audience to come to the stage to receive a gift.. It was a silk handkerchief... Now I am 71 years and still wish I had gone to meet her.. Chmaroki4

“French Actress who is one of the highest paid black women in Europe.

brettfan

“Brazilian television actress. She was discovered on the streets of Salvador and became a model.

brettfan

It's ridiculous that she isn't at LEAST in the top 5. Not only is she one of the best black actresses working today, she's one of the best actresses working PERIOD. I don't know if everyone here hasn't seen Doubt, The Help, or Fences but by seeing her so far on this list I'm just gonna assume that no one has. Viola Davis is one of the best actresses working today.

“I wish she were more active today. Whether she was Whitley Gilbert on a Different World, or her brief role on Melrose Place as Caitlin rose Place, Dead Like Me, Queen, etc. Jasmine was a standout. She has a lot of subtlelty in her performances and is extremely beautiful and charismatic. She's equally great in drama and comedy and a great dancer. Jasmine and Debra Messing are my two favorite actresses and I'd love to see them work together someday."

She's the brilliant actress from Lie To Me, Touye Pwen, and Champion Road 1 & 2. Not only is she beautiful, but she's uber talented... definitely leading lady material. Sexy, intelligent, powerful, and an action star. What more can I say?

binki

Hotel Rwanda, Secret Life of Bees and Skin were really good because of Spohie's stupendous acting skills!

Loved her in the T.V. Series Fame, as Lydia Grant. Great actress and dancer.

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