Black actress. The most beautiful black women
Whitney Houston is an American pop, soul and rhythm and blues singer, actress, producer, and fashion model. Mom: African American + Dutch and Indian roots. Dad: African American. There were also English, Irish and Scots in the family. It's a shame that such a talented singer left so early. ;(((
Oprah Winfrey is an American television presenter, actress, producer, public figure, and host of the talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” Parents are African American, but what: Kpelle, Bamileke and from a tribe that speaks a Bantoid language in Zambia.
*Kpelle - people in West Africa. The Bamileke are a people living in Cameroon.
*Bantoid languages are a group of related languages that form the largest branch of the Benue-Congo languages.
But Oprah did a DNA test and this is what came out:
*89% black Africans
*8% Indians
*3% East Asians
*Black Africa is the name of the part African continent, located south of the Sahara Desert. This part of Africa is inhabited predominantly by Negroid peoples, which served as the basis for the earlier name “Black Africa”.
Jada Koren Pinkett Smith is an American actress, singer, producer, director, writer and entrepreneur. Mom: Afro Creolo-Barbadian-Jamaican + Portuguese Sephardi. Dad: African American.
Chanel Iman is an American supermodel. Previously, she was the youngest among the angels of the Sun. Alessandra called her baby angel. Mom: half African American/half Korean. Dad: African American.
Malaika Firth is a British top model. I didn't find any information about the parents. But, in one forum they write that according to the British version of the fashion bible, it has Kenyan, Ugandan, Seychellois, Swiss and British blood.
Rashida Jones is an American actress. Mom: Ashkenazi. Dad: African American (tikar) + English and Welsh roots.
*Tikar ( tikali, mbam, ndomme, langtumu[self-name]) is one of the peoples of Cameroon, speaking the Tikar language (Tikari, or Tumu) of the Benue-Congo group of the Niger-Kordofan family.
Jordin Sparks is an American pop singer, the winner of the 6th season of the American musical reality show “American Idol”, the youngest in its history. She has one dance song by Jordin Sparks - S.O.S. (Let The Music Play), which I like. Mom: German, English, Scottish and Norwegian roots. Dad: African American.
Nicole Mitchell Murphy - model, media personality, designer, actress, businesswoman and ex-wife Eddie Murphy. But most importantly, we remember her figure despite 5 children and 48 years.
Alisha Dixon is a British singer, model, dancer and television presenter. Mom: white English. Dad: Jamaican.
Kerry Washington is an American actress and political activist. Mom: Afro-Jamaican, English, Scottish and Indian blood. Dad: African American.
Rosario Dawson is an American actress, singer and writer. Mom: Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban blood. Dad: unknown.
Jessica Szohr is an American film actress. Mom: Hungarian, Irish and British roots. Dad: African American.
Hilary Swank is an American actress, two-time Oscar and Golden Globe winner. Mom: Mexican-Spanish + Shoshone (Indian roots). Dad: German, Allemannic (Swiss-German), Scottish, Northern Irish, Welsh and Dutch blood.
*Shoshones (self-name Nymy, Nyvy) are a North American group of Indian tribes speaking languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
Bianca Balti is an Italian model. Mom: Azerbaijani. Dad: Italian.
Paula Patton is an American actress. Mom: white - German, English and Dutch roots. Dad: African American.
Lisa Bonet is an American actress, ex-wife of Lenny Kravitz/current wife of Jason Momoa. People are lucky to experience happiness “twice”. She must have been a holy person in past life. Mom: Ashkenazi. Dad: African American.
Fergie is an American singer, designer and actress. Mom: English and Irish roots. Dad: German, Scottish, English, Irish, Northern Irish, Swedish, Luxembourgish and Mexican ancestry.
Gabrielle Reece is an American beach volleyball player and fashion model. Mom: white European. Dad: Afro-Trinidadian. She does a good job. You play ball on a tropical beach, breathe fresh air, sunbathe and your figure tightens up on its own.
Vanessa Joy Lachey, née Minnillo, is an American television host, model and actress, former Miss Teen USA, and wife of Nick Lachey (ex-husband of Jessica Simpson). Mom: Filipino. Dad: Italian-Irish + Ashkenazi.
Blue Cantrell is an American R&B/soul singer and songwriter. I really like it. her duet with Sean Paul and their song Blu Cantrell – Breathe. Mom: Italian and German roots. Dad: Cape Verdinian + Narragansett (Indian).
*Narragansetts are an Indian tribe belonging to the Algonquian language family.
Kimora Lee is an American actress, television producer and fashion model. Tyra Banks's best friend since her modeling youth. Mom: Korean-Japanese. Dad: African American.
Maggie Q is an American actress and model. Mom: Vietnamese. Dad: Irish, Polish and French blood.
Shanina Shaik is an Australian top model. Mom: Lithuanian. Dad: Pakistani and Arabic roots.
Sean Paul is a popular Jamaican dancehall artist. Mom: English and Chinese origin. Dad: Sephardic and Afro-Jamaican descent.
Namakeaha Momoa also known as Jason Momoa is an American actor and model. Mom: German, Irish and Native American ancestry. Dad: Native Hawaiian.
Young Jason in Baywatch:
Mmm, so big and strong...
Kris Humphries is an American professional basketball player and KimK's ex-husband. Mom: German. Dad: African American and Irish blood.
Tyson Beckford is an American top model and TV presenter, bf of the Australian top model Shanina Shaik. Mom: Afro-Jamaican and Panamanian roots. Dad: Jamaican and Chinese roots.
In the Britney Spears Toxic video:
Lenny Kravitz is an American R"n"B musician, author of retro songs, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger. Mom: Afro-Bahamian and African American roots. Dad: Ashkenazi.
Tiger Woods is an American golfer. Mom: Thai, Chinese-Dutch roots. Dad: African American.
*Cebuanos are Malayo-Polynesians who settled on the island of Cebu. The Cebuano language (Cebuano) is a language of the Austronesian family.
*Tagalogs, less commonly Tagalogs, are a people in the Philippines who belong to the South Asian transitional race.
Jesse Williams is an American actor and model. Mom: Swedish. Dad: African American and Seminole (Native American).
*The Seminoles are a Native American tribe with roots in Florida, now also living in Oklahoma.
*Grenada is an island state in the southeast Caribbean Sea, occupies the island of Grenada and southern part islands of the Grenadines in the Lesser Antilles group, 120 km north of Trinidad.
Val Kilmer is an American actor. Mom: Swedish. Dad: German, English, Welsh, Northern Irish and French ancestry. Also, Val said that he has Mongols, Cherokee Indians and Sephardim in his family.
*Pampangan (pampango, kapampangan) is a people in the Philippines numbering 2.89 million people, the eighth largest in the country. Pampangan originates from Austronesian settlers in the Philippines.
Brendon Urie is an American musician, vocalist, guitarist, pianist and, since 2010, the main songwriter of the band Panic! At the Disco. Mom: Portuguese, Hawaiian (Aboriginal) and English blood. Dad: English, Irish, Scottish, German, Welsh and Danish blood.
Jared Leto is an American actor and rock singer, vocalist of the alternative rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars. What is the secret of his youth? Mom: Cajun, Irish, English, German, Scottish and some Spanish, Dutch and Mi'kmaq (Native American) ancestry. Dad: English.
*The Mi'kmaq are a First Nations people of Canada living in northeastern New England, the Atlantic provinces of Canada and the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec.
*Cajuns are a unique subethnic group in culture and origin. By origin, the Cajuns are one of the groups of French Canadians, or rather French Acadians, deported by the British from Acadia in 1755-1763.
Rob Schneider is an American comedic actor. How funny he was in the movie “Call Man”. Mom: English, Scottish and Filipino roots. Dad: Ashkenazi.
Ben Kingsley is a British actor. Mom: English + Jewish, possibly Ashkenazi. Dad: Gujarati origin from Kenya (his father in turn came from the island of Zanzibar).
*Gujaratis are an Indo-Aryan people in India.
Today, June 19, Zoe Saldana, one of the most beautiful and promising actresses in Hollywood, famous, among other things, for her impeccable style, celebrates her 37th birthday. The American owes her exotic appearance to her Jamaican, Indian, Irish and Libyan roots. Like all actresses with a dancing background, Saldana made her film debut as a dancer in the film “Proscenium,” and earned worldwide popularity thanks to the super-grossing “Avatar.” The personal life of the graceful brunette is of interest almost more than her filmography: a rare partner on the set could resist the charm of the beauty - among them Kate Britton and Bradley Cooper. However, only one gentleman managed to earn Zoya's hand and heart - Italian ex-football player and artist Marco Perego.
Congratulating the birthday girl, ELLE decided to remember other dark-skinned beauties who conquered the star Olympus with their exotic appearance.
The laurels of the main dark-skinned beauty in Hollywood belong to Halle Berry - Bond girl, Catwoman and the first African-American woman in cinema history to receive an Oscar for playing the leading role in a film. Women all over the world admire the actress’s sexuality and impeccable figure, but Berry is in her fifties! And the gentlemen in the actress’s love list match her better than the other - David Justice, Eric Benet, Gabriel Aubry, and now Olivier Martinez, with whom the star went to the altar for the third time.
The daughter of a Kenyan senator and Yale graduate, Lupita Nyong'o, can boast not only of quickly getting into the first league of Hollywood (the actress received an Oscar for her first cameo role in a movie), but also the title of the most beautiful woman on the planet, which many American magazines proclaimed her to be, including including People. According to rumors, Brad Pitt himself, as well as the famous ladies' man Jared Leto, who has been flirting (but so far unrequitedly) with the beautiful Lupita for two years. Celebrate exotic appearance Nyong'o and leading beauty brands, which have been representing the actress as their ambassador for a year.
If People magazine awarded the laurels of the most beautiful of women to Lupita Nyong'o, then the first line in the ranking of the most stylish stars was given to Kerry Washington. But more important than her unerring choice of outfits for the red carpet, the beauty is a favorite of film critics and directors. The great and terrible Quentin Tarantino himself cast Carrie in the title role in Django Unchained, allowing her to develop best qualities: acting talent and beauty.
The fact that the Jamaican-born Englishwoman Naomie Harris became the girlfriend of superspy Bond in the next Bond series speaks for itself - only beauties become partners of the legendary film spy. The British woman was so convincing in the role of agent 007’s fighting girlfriend that she was invited to star in the continuation of the story. Even as a voodoo witch in Pirates of the Caribbean, Harris was so good that handsome Orlando Bloom succumbed to her charms.
Lisa Bonet and Zoe Kravitz
The love of my life and the only one legal spouse Lenny Kravitz actress Lisa Bonet captivated the rocker at first sight - when he saw the girl, he was literally speechless. After six years of relationship, Lenny broke up with her, not coming to terms with the fact that he was not the only one admiring the beauty of his beloved (at that time Lisa acted a lot in films). To this day, the musician calls Bonet the most beautiful of women (and the playboy had many of them). By the way, their fruit Great love, Zoe’s daughter, having inherited all the best from her parents, now also regularly appears in sexiness ratings.
This top presents the most beautiful black actresses and singers of the last century and modern times.
27. Keke Palmer(born August 26, 1993, Illinois, USA) - American actress and singer.
26. Kenya Moore / Kenya Moore(born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, model, author and producer. Winner of competitions "Miss Michigan 1993" And "Miss USA 1993", entered the Top 6 at the competition "Miss Universe 1993".
25. Whitney Houston / Whitney Houston(August 9, 1963, Newark - February 11, 2012, Beverly Hills) - American pop, soul and rhythm and blues singer, actress, producer, model. One of the most commercially successful performers in the history of world music.
24. Michael Michele(born August 30, 1966) is an American actress of African-American descent on her mother's side. She is best known for her role as Dr. Cleo Finch in the television series ER.
23. Pam Grier(born May 26, 1949) - American actress. Notable actress in 1970s exploitation films focusing on women in prison, such as "The Big Cage," " Black mom, white mom" and "Women in a Cage", as well as the direction of blaxploitation, which later became one of the favorite actresses of feminists and African-Americans.
22. Kerry Washington(born January 31, 1977, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and political activist. She is best known for her roles in the films "Ray", "Fantastic Four", "The Last King of Scotland", "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer", "Django Unchained" and others.
20. Rihanna / Rihanna(born February 20, 1988, Barbados) - R&B and pop singer and actress. At the age of 16 she moved to the United States to begin her singing career. She later signed a contract with Def Jam Recordings. She is of Afro-Guyanese descent on her mother's side.
19. Paula Patton(born December 5, 1975, Los Angeles) is an American actress. Famous films: "Deja Vu", "Treasure". He is of African-American descent on his father and Caucasian on his mother.
18. Vanessa Williams / Vanessa Williams(born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, actress and model who entered history in 1984, becoming first black winner of the Miss America title.
16. Alicia Keys / Alicia Keys(born January 25, 1981, New York) is a singer, pianist, poet and composer performing in the styles of rhythm and blues, soul and neo-soul, winner of fourteen Grammy awards.
15. Ciara / Ciara(born October 25, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, producer, dancer, actress, model, music video director. Ciara made her debut in the summer of 2004 with the single “Goodies,” which reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album sold more than five million worldwide and received numerous awards and nominations.
13.Lupita Nyong'o(born March 1, 1983) is a Kenyan actress, director and producer, winner of numerous awards, including an Oscar, for her role as slave Patsy in the historical drama 12 Years a Slave.
12.Christina Milian / Christine Milian(born September 26, 1981) is a famous American actress and singer of Afro-Cuban origin.
11. Christina Milian
/ Tamara Dobson(May 14, 1947 – October 2, 2006) was an African-American actress and model. Films: "Cleopatra Jones", "Women Behind Bars".
10. Katerina "Kat" Graham / Kat Graham(born September 5, 1989, Geneva, Switzerland) is an American actress, singer, model, music producer and dancer. She is best known for her role as Bonnie Bennett from the television series The Vampire Diaries. Has Liberian roots on his father's side.
9. Joy Bryant(born October 19, 1976) is an American actress and former model. Films with her participation: “The Story of Antoine Fischer”, “Scoundrel”, “Bobby”.
8. Nicole Scherzinger / Nicole Scherzinger(born June 29, 1978) is an American pop R&B singer, dancer, songwriter, record producer, actress and fashion model of Filipino-Hawaiian-Russian descent, best known as a vocalist. The group Pussycat Dolls.
7. Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Gugu Mbatha-Raw(b. 1983 Oxford, UK) - English actress. Her father is from Republic of South Africa. Films with her participation: "Doctor Who", "Desire for Revenge", "Larry Crown", "Odd Thomas".
4. Dorothy Dandridge / Dorothy Dandridge(November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) - American actress and singer became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.
3.Beyonce Knowles / Beyonce Knowles(born September 4, 1981, Houston) is an American R’n’B singer, music producer, actress, dancer and model. She became famous in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the female R&B group Destiny's Child. Knowles' father is African-American, and her mother is Creole.
2. Lisa Bonet / Lisa Bonet(born November 16, 1967 in San Francisco, California, USA) is an American actress, best known for her role in the sitcom The Cosby Show and its spin-off A Different World. He has African American roots on his father's side.
1. Jane Kennedy / Jayne Kennedy(born October 27, 1951) - American actress, sports commentator. She was chosen "Miss Ohio USA" in 1970 and thus became the first African American woman to win this title. She was also one of 15 semi-finalists in the competition "Miss USA 1970",which was a rare achievement for an African American woman. Films with her participation: “Women’s Prison”, “Forces of Death”, “Body and Soul”.
In continuation of our column “The most beautiful women in the world,” we decided to make a selection of the most beautiful girls with chocolate skin color.
Black women have always amazed us with their beauty: plump lips, velvet skin, athletic figure and ideal proportions. But it’s no secret that their path to the top of fame was not easy, and even today a girl with dark color skins can be met at a modeling agency with the words: “We already have one dark-skinned model.”
41 years old, supermodel and TV presenter
One of the first African-American women to conquer the catwalks of Paris. She started her career path at the age of 15 and became the first black woman to appear on the covers of GQ, Sports Illustrated and Victoria's Secret catalogues. She is also the creator and producer of one of the most popular shows, America's Next Top Model.
Naomi Campbell
44 years old, supermodel
Icon of the 90s: no one could do without her fashion show, not a single fashionable party and another scandal. Naomi became the first black model to receive one of the highest paid contracts with a modeling agency. And now, 10 years later, she looks amazing and hasn’t changed a bit.
33 years old, singer and actress
A girl from Houston (Texas) became the most popular pop and r"n"b singer in the world. She has 20 Grammy awards to her name and has gone down in history as the only woman, nominated for this award 52 times.
26 years old, singer
The singer from Barbados was noticed by an American agent, and soon she signed a contract with the production center of rapper Jay-Z (45). Today she is the highest paid singer, and her single Umbrella became the best-selling hit in the world.
Lola Monroe
28 years old, rapper and model
The American performer was born in Ethiopia, but moved to Washington as a child, where she grew up. Her debut single Boss Bitch was the first step on the path to popularity.
Dorothy Dandridge
1922−1956, actress, singer and dancer
One of the first black women to achieve recognition on the American stage. She also became the first black woman to be nominated for an Oscar.
Whitney Houston
1963−2012, singer and actress
American singer, performer of the most touching love song I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston entered the Guinness Book of Records as the woman with the most big amount awards She won the hearts of the 90s generation by starring in the film Bodyguard.
48 years old, actress
In 2002, Holly received an Academy Award for Best Actress. We know her from the film “X-Men” and as a Bond girl in the film “Die Another Day.”
Diana Ross
70 years old, singer, producer and actress
The singer of the hits Ain't No Mountain High Enough and Love Hangover was one of the most beautiful women of her time. She entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful performer in history.
Iman Abdulmajid
59 years old, model, actress and businesswoman
Iman, originally from Somalia, began her career as a model, but then opened the world's first cosmetics company with a line of foundation for dark-skinned women. Iman is married to David Bowie (68).
Vanessa Williams
51 years old, singer and actress
She made history as the first African-American woman to win the Miss America pageant in 1983. She can be recognized from her roles in the TV series “Ugly Betty” and “ Desperate Housewives" She also performed the song “Colors of the Wind” in the Disney cartoon “Pocahontas”.
Janet Jackson
The sister of the legendary Michael Jackson (1958-2009) Janet in her youth was very similar to her famous brother, but at the same time she did not remain in his shadow and made her own significant contribution to the music industry.
Rissikat Bade
22 years old, model
The Congolese-born model gained recognition by moving to Britain and winning the Miss London pageant in 2011. As a child, the girl lived in Ukraine, so she speaks fluent Russian and Ukrainian, and also learns French.
Alek Wek
37 years old, model
Born in Sudan and from the Dinko tribe, the stunning model with skin the color of black coffee hit the catwalk in 1995 at the age of 18.
Lupita Nyong'o
31 years old, actress and director
The Mexican-Kenyan-born model grew up in America and received higher education at Yale University. Success came to her after her role in the film “12 Years a Slave,” for which Lupita received an Oscar as “Best Supporting Actress.”
Agbani Darego
31 years old, model
She became the first woman of African descent to win the Miss World pageant.
Fatima Siad
28 years old, model
The model is from Somalia. The participant in the 10th season of America's Next Top Model intends to prove to the whole world that she is not just another participant in the popular show. The girl actively works on world catwalks and participated in shows of Herve Leger, Hermes and Dries Van Noten.
Alicia Keys
34 years old, singer, composer and producer
Her debut album Songs In A Minor sold 12 million copies, making her the most successful emerging artist of 2001. She starred in such successful films as “Smoking Aces” and “The Nanny Diaries.”
Noémie Lenoir
35 years old, model and actress
The model, originally from France, became popular, appearing in Elle and Sports Illustrated magazines. She also collaborated with such fashion houses as Gucci, L'Oréal, Tommy Hilfiger, Victoria's Secret and Marks and Spencer. She is known for her role in the film Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.
Zoe Saldana
36 years old, actress and dancer
Her debut films were “Proscenium” and “Crossroads”, but her cameo role in the film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” brought her worldwide popularity.
Melody Monrose
22 years old, model
Melody began her career at the age of 18 when she was noticed by an agent in hometown on the island of Martinique. The girl was invited to New York and Paris, and she has already modeled for Vogue Italia and Harper’s Bazaar.
Anais Mali
24 years old, model
A French model, her father was from Chad and her mother from Poland. The girl's career began in 2009, and in 2011 she participated in the Victoria's Secret show.
Naomie Harris
38 years old, actress
The British actress, known for her role as the voodoo witch Calypso in the film Pirates of the Caribbean, also starred in the film 007: Skyfall and took part in the continuation of the James Bond story 007: Spectre.
