The Woman King

Viola Davis

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Known primarily as a stage actress, Davis won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role in Fences. She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). Her films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Solaris (2002). Her performance in Doubt (2008) was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Thuso Mbedu

Thuso Nokwanda Mbedu is a South African actress. She was nominated for an International Emmy for her role in the drama series Is'Thunzi. She appeared on the 2018 Forbes Africa 30 under 30 list. In 2021, she starred in the Amazon Video limited series The Underground Railroad.

Lashana Lynch

Lashana Rasheda Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She is best known for playing the role of Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed (2017) and fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel (2019). Lynch made her film debut in the 2012 drama film Fast Girls. She later co-starred in the BBC television film The 7.39. On television, she has appeared in Silent Witness and Death in Paradise and was a regular cast member on the short-lived BBC comedy Crims in 2015. In 2016, Lynch was cast as leading character Rosaline Capulet in the American period drama series Still Star-Crossed, produced by Shonda Rhimes. In 2018, she joined the cast of Y as Agent 355. In 2019, she played fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel. She has been cast as Nomi in the James Bond film No Time to Die, due for release in November 2020. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Lashana Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John Boyega

John Boyega (born 17 March 1992) is a British actor, best known for playing Finn in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019). Boyega was born in Peckham, London, to Nigerian parents. His first role was that of a leopard in a play at his primary school at the age of five. He attended Westminster City School as a teenager. He later took part in various school productions and attended classes at Theatre Peckham. He was a performing arts student at South Thames College in Wandsworth and was active in theatre productions there, including the lead in Othello in 2010.

Sheila Atim

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sheila Atim MBE (born January 1991) is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer, and playwright. She made her professional acting debut in 2013 at Shakespeare's Globe in The Lightning Child, a musical that she co-wrote along with her acting teacher Ché Walker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sheila Atim, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jordan Bolger

Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Hero Fiennes Tiffin (born 6 November 1997) is an English actor and model born in London, England. He is best known for his role as the 11-year-old Tom Riddle, the young version of Lord Voldemort (played in the films by his uncle, Ralph Fiennes) in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009). He portrayed Hardin Scott in the movie After (2019).

Jayme Lawson

Jayme Lawson is an American actress, best known for her role in The Batman (2022). She studied drama at The Juilliard School and graduated in 2019, where she played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, the title role in Hamlet, as well as Lady Macbeth onstage.

Adrienne Warren

Adrienne Warren (born May 6, 1987) is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for her work on Broadway, film and television.

Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kidjo, is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, actress and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Description above from the Wikipedia article Angélique Kidjo, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.