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1. Young Maylay

Christopher Bellard born in June 17, 1979, also known by his stage name Young Maylay, is an American rapper from Los Angeles. He is best known for his portrayal of Carl "CJ" Johnson, the main character and protagonist of the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Christopher Bellard was ...

2. Faizon Love

Actor | Friday

Langston Faizon Santisima is an African-American actor and comedian from Santiago de Cuba known for Wanda from Elf, Big Worm from Friday, Sean "Sweet" Johnson from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Jahmal Abdul Jackson from The Replacements, Bruce the Bear from Zookeeper, Robin Harris from Bébé's Kids...

3. Yolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker

Actress | Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Yo-Yo (born Yolanda Whittaker) has been among the most sophisticated and unpredictable female MCs around. She doesn't take an overtly feminist tack but urges young women to show sexual restraint and use their minds as well as their bodies.

Her introduction to the hip-hop game came with an appearance...

4. Mario D'Leon

Actor | Premium Rush

Mario D'Leon is known for Premium Rush (2012), Fighting (2009) and My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006).

5. Michael Hollick

Actor | Grand Theft Auto IV

Michael Hollick was born on August 5, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Homefront (2011). He has been married to Angela Tsai since September 2, 2007. They have two children.

6. Jas Anderson

Actor | The Final Mission

The stage is set the cast is selected and Jas Anderson is on the move. Not only is Jas Anderson a trained theatrical actor since his days in High School at Performing Arts High School in New York and then on to Rutgers University, but he is an actor whose resume speaks volumes in regards to being a...

7. Ryan Johnston

Actor | Grand Theft Auto IV

Ryan Johnston was born on January 3, 1979 in York, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Grand Theft Auto IV (2008), Out of Omaha (2018) and Grand Theft Auto V (2013).

8. Big Boy

Actor | Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Big Boy was born in 1969 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999), Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) and The Longest Yard (2005).

9. Ned Luke

Actor | Grand Theft Auto V

Ned Luke was born on October 4, 1958 in Danville, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Grand Theft Auto V (2013), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Boardwalk Empire (2010). He has been married to Amy Sax since November 12, 1997. They have one child.

10. Game

Actor | Street Kings

Jayceon Taylor was born on November 29, 1979 in Compton, California. He was born into a life of gang-banging and hustling. When later interviewed, Taylor, aka The Game says at a young age, he recalls seeing both of his parents preparing to do drive-bys. His father was a Nutty Block Crip and his ...

11. Clifton Collins Jr.

Actor | Star Trek

An acting chameleon who can easily lose himself in the life of his film and television characters, Clifton Collins Jr. is a native Angeleno who grew up destined to become a part of the Latino entertainment industry. His great-grandparents on his mother's side were a Mexican trumpet player and ...

12. Nikolette Noel

Actress | The Expendables 2

Nikolette Noel was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

Her mother was a famous Hungarian supermodel, Apostol Eva. Nikolette speaks Hungarian fluently.

She began her acting career at age six when she landed the role of Jubilee on the NBC series "Unsolved Mysteries." She continued to do ...

13. Eddie Murphy

Actor | The Nutty Professor

Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...

14. 50 Cent

Soundtrack | Get Rich or Die Tryin'

50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) is an American rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.

He began a musical career and in 2000 he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records, but days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. In 2002, after Jackson released the ...

15. Michael Jai White

Actor | Black Dynamite

Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn. White ...

16. Chanta Patton

Actress | After Hours: The Movie

Chanta Patton is known for After Hours: The Movie (2011), Lil Wayne: How to Love (2011) and The Coalition (2012).

17. DMX

Soundtrack | Exit Wounds

Earl Simmons (December 18, 1970 - April 9, 2021), known by his stage name DMX ("Dark Man X"), was an American rapper and actor. He began rapping in the early 1990s and released his debut album It's Dark and Hell Is Hot in 1998, to both critical acclaim and commercial success, selling 251,000 copies...

18. Mike Tyson

Actor | The Hangover

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of ...

19. Jean-Claude Van Damme

Actor | Double Impact

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...

20. James Yaegashi

Actor | Civil War

James was born in Yokohama and raised in rural Yamagata, Japan. He moved to the U.S. after high school and earned a BA in literature from Wheaton College and an MFA in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

James is based in NYC, working as an actor, director, translator, ...

21. Al Pacino

Actor | Serpico

Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...

22. Jet Li

Actor | Huo Yuan Jia

Jet Li born Li Lian Jie in Beijing, China. He started training at the Beijing wushu academy (wushu is China's national sport, largely a performance version of various martial art styles) at age eight. He won five gold medals in the Chinese championships, his first when he was only 11. In his teens,...

23. Tyrese Gibson

Actor | Baby Boy

Tyrese Darnell Gibson was born December 30, 1978 in Watts, Los Angeles, California, where he was raised. He is an R&B singer, songwriter, actor, author, television producer and model. He is well known for his actor role as Roman Pearce in the The Fast and Furious movie franchise. Other popular ...

24. Danny Dyer

Actor | The Football Factory

Danny Dyer was born in the Custom House area of east London, England, on 24th July 1977. Danny was spotted at a Sunday Drama School for underprivileged kids, in Kentish Town, by the agent Charlotte Kelly who got him an audition for the part of Martin Fletcher in the Granada Television series Prime ...

25. Guru

Soundtrack | Training Day

Guru was born on July 17, 1961 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Training Day (2001), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) and Addams Family Values (1993). He died on April 19, 2010 in Suffern, New York, USA.

26. Grifon Aldren

Actor | The Expendables

Grifon Aldren is an artist skilled in acting, composing, screenwriting and various production capabilities. With credits ranging from several national commercials to network drama, comedy, as well as big budget action films and moderately financed independent film, Grifon is quickly climbing the ...

27. Amin Joseph

Actor | Snowfall

Amin Joseph - The award nominated, multi-hyphenate actor and producer returns to Sundance in 2023 with two bold films in competition. Joseph is lead and producer of "To Live and Die and Live," a gripping story about loss and addiction. Amin also shines in the short film "We Were Meant To," a ...

28. Lauren Jones

Actress | The Expendables

Lauren Jones was born on August 27, 1982 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She is an actress, known for The Expendables (2010), Guiding Light (1952) and Wonder Showzen (2005).

29. Wesley Snipes

Actor | Blade

Wesley Trent Snipes was born in Orlando, Florida, to Marian (Long), a teacher's assistant, and SMSGT Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer. He grew up on the streets of the South Bronx in New York City, where he very early decided that dance and the theatre were to be his career. He attended ...

30. Steve Austin

Actor | The Condemned

'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was born in Victoria, Texas, as Steven James Anderson, on December 18, 1964, the youngest of five children. His mother, Beverly Jane (Harrison), remarried to Kenneth Williams, and he took his stepfather's surname. He played football at the North Texas State University. He ...

31. Vin Diesel

Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy

Vin Diesel was born Mark Sinclair in Alameda County, California, along with his fraternal twin brother, Paul Vincent. He was raised by his astrologer/psychologist mother, Delora Sherleen (Sinclair), and adoptive father, Irving H. Vincent, an acting instructor and theatre manager, in an artists' ...

32. Carrie Simmons

Actress | The Coffee Quintet

Carrie Simmons is known for The Coffee Quintet (2010), Playtown (2006) and Travel with Kids (2004).

33. Tupac Shakur

Actor | Juice

Born in New York City, Tupac grew up primarily in Harlem. In 1984, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett Smith. His family moved again in 1988 to Oakland, California. His first breakthrough in music came in 1991 as a member of the group Digital ...

34. Heather Alicia Simms

Actress | The Nanny Diaries

Heather Alicia Simms is a multifaceted talent, renowned for her compelling performances on stage, screen, and in voiceover. Raised in Brooklyn, New York, she is a trailblazer, being the first in her Jamaican family to be born in the United States. Her journey through the public school system ...

35. Ashton Moore

Actor | Must Be Santa

Ashton Moore is known for Must Be Santa (1999) and Rescuers: Stories of Courage: Two Couples (1998).

36. LaMonica Garrett

Actor | 1883

LaMonica Garrett was born on May 23, 1975 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for 1883 (2021), The Terminal List (2022) and Designated Survivor (2016). He has been married to Mina Ivanova since April 27, 2017.

37. Megan Fox

Actress | Transformers

Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee to Gloria Darlene Tonachio (née Cisson), a real estate manager & Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. She began her drama and dance training at age 5 and at age 10, she moved to Port St. Lucie, ...

38. Ray Liotta

Actor | Narc

Intense was the word for Ray Liotta. He specialized in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice-guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. He was born in Newark, New ...