Favourite black actresses

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Love Rae Dwang Chong from Commando. She's funny in the way she comments on the very macho nature of the film. "These guys eat too much red meat!" The film is great, but without her I probably wouldn't watch it as much.





Stacey Dash from Moving and Clueless. Doesn't seem to be liked much these days for her political views, but I've always found her a particularly striking and fun actress.






Special mention goes to Pam Grier as well who is pratically awesome in all the things I've seen her in.

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For me black women are by far the most beautiful. When I was younger it was a toss up between black women and Jewish women for who is the most beautiful.

I'd say my faves are

Regina Hall. She is a comedy genius. I'm not too keen on the Scary Movie series, but her character Brenda is one of the funniest characters in anything and I always watch her scenes back if I'm feeling sad. She embodies every single sassy black woman stereotype imaginable and it's brilliant. I can understand people not wanting to make stereotypes about other races, as it can come over as sneering and horrible, like Family Guy's jokes about the English. However when it's someone from that group doing it, based on the people they grew up with, then it's brilliant. 90 percent of Scottish humour is us making fun of ourselves as ugly, violent, drunks LOL like Still Game, so Regina was just following in that comedy tradition. 

"I know you better get outta my face! Outta my face! Outta my face! This is all me up in here you can't handle that!" "WILL YOU SHUT THE f*ck UP"  just writing about that is making me LMAO. I must say though I would love to go watch a movie with her character. Depending on the movie it would be far more entertaining watching her reactions "DON'T GO IN THERE DON'T GO IN THERE!". I also love the way she watched Shakespeare in Love or ShakAspeare in Love like a horror movie. Even just the way she was eating the fried chicken (naturally) was so loud and annoying it was hilarious. 

If I was doing a comedy thing my first port of call, before even the script would be. "Call Regina Hall's agent, let her do whatever she wants in the film, and deliver dump trucks of money to her house if need be LOL."

I also like Naomie Harris. She's a brilliant actress, who tends to go for quite unusual, creative, offbeat kind of roles, like Zombie horror films, giant monster films, crazy supervillains, and playing a horrible zombie monster in the Pirates movies. She's also a peach too. I used to comment on her FB page before she really hit it big and she was always so lovely to her fans. 

Snap about Pam Grier. She is a Peter Cushing, Tim Curry who no matter what shit she was in, always treats it like gold. 

Susan Wokoma who was in Year of the Rabbit and stole the show even from a comedy powerhouse like Matt Berry! She is just so wonderful, eccentric, hilarious and can make even the most minor character into a fan fave her personality is so huge. I also used to comment on her insta page and she was so funny and cute too. I remember I asked her once "God damn why are you so cute." And she responded with "No idea. Rude that isn't it." Hahaha. I also once said when she was wearing a COVID mask "what a shame you have to cover up that beautiful face of yours." (I may have come over a bit keen. LOL) She however just responded with a "Ooooooooooohhhhhhhh Staaaaaaap" Hahahaha. 

Sadly however she was stalked for months by some creep who also doxxed her address all over social media. The police as per usual when it comes to stalkers, did f*ck all, so she had to take matters into her own hands, which included limiting who can comment on her insta page to just people she follows. Thankfully the creep hasn't been able to target her since, but it's a shame she had to do that. 

Freema Agyeman obviously. Just so f*cking cute, lovely and a great actress. She is a candidate for the queen of duckies. 

Lenora Crichlow. I loved her in Being Human. She was so cute, lovable, and hilarious in that show. She was by far my fave character, with s4 that revolved around her being the best series overall.

Gina Torres is also an absolute genre queen and similarly gives her all, even if what she is starring in something like Cleopatra 2525 that is basically trash. She was the only reason I could even tolerate the mess of the end of Angel season 4.

I also really like Emilia Burns too. Sadly she doesn't get many big parts, but she always makes a big impression. Her being tortured to death in Ash Vs Evil Dead is probably the most genuinely horrifying moment in the entire Evil Dead franchise. It's the only scene that could make me hate Lucy Lawless and Dana Delorenzo LOL. (I loved the way though Lucy is so nice in real life, in the commentary she feels sorry for Emilia's character going "hasn't this poor woman suffered enough.")

Lesley Ann Brandt who plays Mazikeen in Lucifer is also amazing. Whilst Ella is by far my fave character, Maze is a close second. God damn did you want her to tie you up. I'd happily go to hell forever if she was doing the whipping. She's also a fantastic singer too, which might make her my dream girl. Black, dominatrix, sings? All she needs is a huge nose LOL.

CCH Pounder is also an amazing actress too. I first discovered her when she voiced Amanda Waller in Justice League Unlimited. Epilogue which features her character prominently is one of the best pieces of tv ever produced in my opinion, and a large part of that is her nuanced, ruthless, yet empathetic performance as Amanda that has yet to be equalled (which is no mean feat as Pam Grier herself played Waller.) I'd say Pounders Waller is better than even the comics and much like Conroy as Batman and Hamill as the Joker, she is always who I imagine when reading the character.

Eartha Kitt, who is actually my fave Catwoman, though it's hard to say. Michelle Pfiefer the girl from Gotham and Ann Hathaway all are different as obviously they were playing it in a serious production, and all brought something new to it. However if I'm honest I just like watching Eartha the most. She pretty much was Catwoman in real life LOL, naughty, sexy, enjoyed teasing people etc. Her Catwoman is so charismatic and hilarious, that she makes the Joker, possibly the greatest villain in anything into her sidekick when they are a power couple.

Also honorary mention to the actress who played Laverne in Scrubs. I don't remember her name, and sadly she is often relegated to bit parts, but she is absolutely hilarious too. Like Regina Hall she does the sassy black woman thing brilliantly and like Susan Wokoma she can make the most of minor parts. Even her bit in Friends that she is only in for a min at the most is funny. Just the way she delivers "did you cut this couch in half" is so full of attitude and character it's brilliant.

Black women are actually among the best at comedy and among the funniest naturally IMO. 

That's all I have for now, but I'll be back later for more. I'm sure there are some obvious ones I've missed out. That's just off the top of my head. 

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Currently Danai Gurira from The Walking Dead.

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Jun 16, 2023 12:59:37 GMT rushy said:

Currently Danai Gurira from The Walking Dead.

Forgot about her. She was so sexy in.... well everything she's ever been in, but I loved her as Michonne. She made scowling sexy!

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Black women's comedy is second to none. 




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More sassy black women in things please! They are the best. 

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Also love this song by Eartha Kitt.




Again this pretty much summed up her personality LOL.

I think this also goes quite well with one of my all time favourite songs by Voltaire. 



I've always wanted to hear a female cover of this song, but I suppose naturally it's better to give women their own song about being evil. Alti and the Master can sing these two songs when they get married. (Eric Roberts did shag Claire Stansfield in a movie so I'm not just picking that pairing out of thin air LOL.)