21st-century African-American actresses

The list 21st-century African-American actresses includes Beyoncé, Zendaya, Zoë Kravitz, Kelly Rowland and Taraji P. Henson. The list consists of 898 members.

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Beyoncé

American, Singer

Overview: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter ( bee-ON-say; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman. Known as "Queen Bey", she has been widely recognized for her boundary-pushing ...

Date of birth: 4 September 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Jay-Z (Married)

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American dance-pop musicians 68T

Knowles–Carter family 5T

American feminist musicians 282T
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Zendaya

American, Actress

Overview: Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman ( zən-DAY-ə; born September 1, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Known mononymously as Zendaya, she has received various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards ...

Date of birth: 1 September 1996

Age: 28

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Tom Holland (Engaged)

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American child pop musicians 106T

American musicians of Nigerian descent 44T

American comedy actresses 409T
3.

Zoë Kravitz

American, Actress

Overview: Zoë Isabella Kravitz (born December 1, 1988) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the romantic comedy film No Reservations (2007). Her breakthrough came with portraying Angel Salvadore ...

Date of birth: 1 December 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: Noah Centineo (Dating)

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American secular Jews 44T

Actresses from Brooklyn 363T

African-American women musicians 386T
4.

Kelly Rowland

American singer and actress (born 1981)

Overview: Kelendria Trene "Kelly" Rowland (born February 11, 1981) is an American singer, actress, and television personality. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as a member of Destiny's Child, one of the world's ...

Date of birth: 11 February 1981

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

Partner: Tim Witherspoon Jr (Fighter) (Married)

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American dance-pop musicians 68T

American feminist musicians 278T

American expatriate actresses in England 67T
5.

Taraji P. Henson

American actress

Overview: Taraji Penda Henson ( tə-RAH-jee; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before ...

Date of birth: 11 September 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Shorty Award winners 216T

20th-century African-American women 4,418T

21st-century African-American women 4,675T
6.

Whitney Houston

American singer, record producer, actress, film producer, and philanthropist (1963–2012)

Overview: Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer and actress. Nicknamed "the Voice", she is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with over 220 million ...

Date of birth: 9 August 1963

Date of death: 11 February 2012

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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MTV Video Music Award winners 217T

American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent 252T

Deaths from coronary artery disease 79T
7.

Tyra Banks

American, TV Personality

Overview: Tyra Lynne Banks (born December 4, 1973), also known as BanX, is an American television personality, model, producer, writer, and actress. Born in Inglewood, California, she began her career as a model ...

Date of birth: 4 December 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: American

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Louis Belanger Martin (Long-Term)

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American women civil rights activists 370T

LGBT rights activists from California 34T

20th-century African-American actresses 70T
8.

Stacey Dash

American actress (born 1967)

Overview: Stacey Lauretta Dash (born January 20, 1967) is an American actress. Dash played Dionne Marie Davenport in the 1995 feature film Clueless and its television series of the same name. She has also appeared ...

Date of birth: 20 January 1967

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Actresses from the Bronx 61T

Critics of Black Lives Matter 90T

20th-century African-American women 4,459T
9.

Sanaa Lathan

American actress (born 1971)

Overview: Sanaa McCoy Lathan (born September 19, 1971) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actress Eleanor McCoy and film director Stan Lathan. Her career began after she appeared in the shows In the ...

Date of birth: 19 September 1971

Age: 53

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

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20th-century African-American women singers 859T

20th-century African-American women 4,418T

21st-century African-American women 4,675T
10.

Meagan Good

American actress (born 1981)

Overview: Meagan Monique Good is an American actress. She first gained critical attention for her role in the film Eve's Bayou (1997), prior to landing the role of Nina in the Nickelodeon sitcom Cousin Skeeter ...

Date of birth: 8 August 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Jonathan Majors (Married)

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20th-century African-American women 4,401T

21st-century African-American women 4,662T

People from Canyon Country, Santa Clarita, California 8T
11.

Halle Berry

American actress

Overview: Halle Maria Berry (born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the romantic drama film Monster's Ball (2001), b ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

Partner: Van Hunt (Dating)

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The Second City Training Center alumni 18T

Models from Cleveland 11T

20th-century African-American actresses 47T
12.

Ciara

American singer (born 1985)

Overview: Ciara Princess Wilson ( see-ERR-ə, like Sierra; née Harris, born October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and model. Born in Austin, Texas, she traveled around the world during ...

Date of birth: 25 October 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Russell Wilson (Married)

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American footballers' wives and girlfriends 4T

Electropop musicians 34T

American female hip hop musicians 67T
13.

Christina Milian

American singer and actress (born 1981)

Overview: Christine Marie Flores (born September 26, 1981), better known as Christina Milian (), is an American actress, singer and songwriter. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but raised in Maryland, she signed ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1981

Age: 43

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

Partner: Matt Pokora (Married)

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21st-century American women singers 2,642T

Women in hip hop music 173T

21st-century American rappers 2,148T
14.

Mariah Carey

American singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, and philanthropist (born 1969)

Overview: Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1969) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. Referred to as the "Songbird Supreme" by Guinness World Records, she is noted for her songwriting, f ...

Date of birth: 27 March 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

Partner: Anderson .Paak (Dating)

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Judges in American reality television series 95T

21st-century African-American women singers 623T

20th-century African-American women singers 863T
15.

Karrueche Tran

American socialite and actress

Overview: Karrueche Tran ( kə-ROO-chee TRAN; born May 17, 1988) is an American actress and model. From 2013 to 2016, she starred as Vivian Johnson in the web series The Bay. For producing the series, she won two ...

Date of birth: 17 May 1988

Age: 36

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)

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American actresses of Asian descent 63T

Birmingham High School alumni 29T

Catfish the TV Show hosts 11T
16.

Keri Hilson

American singer and songwriter (born 1982)

Overview: Keri Lynn Hilson (born December 5, 1982) is an American R&B singer, songwriter and actress.

Date of birth: 5 December 1982

Age: 42

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Singer-songwriters from Georgia (U.S. state) 247T

5G conspiracy theorists 20T

COVID-19 conspiracy theorists 139T
17.

Paris Jackson

American model and musician (born 1998)

Overview: Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (born April 3, 1998) is an American model, actress, and singer. She is the second child and only daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe.

Date of birth: 3 April 1998

Age: 27

Nationality: American

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

Partner: Justin Long (Engaged)

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American LGBT models 1T

American LGBT actresses 37T

21st-century American LGBT people 2,127T
18.

Naya Rivera

American actress and singer (1987–2020)

Overview: Naya Marie Rivera (January 12, 1987 – July 8, 2020) was an American actress, singer, and model. Recognized for her work on the popular musical comedy-drama series Glee, she received various awards ...

Date of birth: 12 January 1987

Date of death: 8 July 2020

Age: 33 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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20th-century African-American actresses 676T

21st-century African-American women singers 717T

Immigrant rights activists 40T
19.

Troian Bellisario

American actress

Overview: Troian Avery Bellisario (born October 28, 1985) is an American actress. She is best known for starring as Spencer Hastings in the television series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017). In 2010, she received ...

Date of birth: 28 October 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Patrick J. Adams (Married)

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Bellisario family 5T

Actresses of Serbian descent 21T

USC School of Dramatic Arts alumni 81T
20.

Willow Smith

American singer and actress (born 2000)

Overview: Willow Camille Reign Smith (born October 31, 2000), also known mononymously as Willow, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, actress and dancer. She is the daughter of Will Smith ...

Date of birth: 31 October 2000

Age: 24

Nationality: American

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Tyler Cole (Rapper) (Dating)

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Sierra Canyon School alumni 19T

The Society Management models 44T

LGBT singers from the United States 493T