A tribute to all the actors and actresses who have brought legends back to life through films.
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1. Alexandra Shipp
Alexandra played Aaliyah in the Lifetime biopic about her life.
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2. Mo’Nique
According to reports, Mo’Nique has officially signed on with HBO for a film about Bessie Smith. She was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She passed away at age 43 from injuries sustained in an auto accident.
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3. Toni Braxton
OWN announced that Toni Braxton is set to star as Darlene Love in the network’s first scripted TV film “My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story.”
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4. Idris Elba
Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela in Mandela
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5. Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in Winnie
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6. Will Smith
Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali
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7. Beyonce
Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records
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8. Andre 3000
Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix
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9. Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone
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10. Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It and Coretta Scott King in Coretta and Betty.
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11. Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42 and James Brown
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12. Charlayne Woodard
Charlayne Woodard as Gail Devers in Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
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13. Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ben Carson and James Robert Kennedy
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14. Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington as Steve Biko in Biko and Malcolm X
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15. Derek Luke
Derek Luke as Antwone Fisher
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16. Dorian Harewood
Dorian Harewood as Jesse Owens The Jesse Owens Story
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17. Forest Whitaker
Forest Whitaker as Eugene Allen in The Butler
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18. Imani Hakim
Imani Hakim as Gabby Douglas (ages 14-16) in The Gabby Douglas Story
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19. Halle Berry
Halle Berry as Dorothy Dandridge
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20. Jamal Woolard
Jamal Woolard as Christopher “Biggie” Wallace in Notorious
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21. Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
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22. Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King, Jr.
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23. Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee in The Tuskegee Airmen
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24. Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker in the Josephine Baker Story
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25. Mary J. Blige
Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz in Coretta and Betty
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26. Michael B. Jordan
Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station
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27. Quinton Aaron
Quinton Aaron in the Blind SIde
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28. Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson as Ken Carter in Coach Carter
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29. Shirley Jo Finney
Shirley Jo Finney as Wilma Rudolph in Wilma
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30. Sydney Mikayla
Sydney Mikayla as Gabby Douglas (age: 7-12) in The Gabby Douglas Story
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31. Terrence Howard
Terrence Howard as James ‘Jim’ Ellis in Pride
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32. Diana Ross
Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues
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