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Winston Duke was born on 15 November 1986 in Trinidad and Tobago. He is an actor and producer, known for Black Panther (2018), Us (2019) and Nine Days (2020).- Actress
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SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Lorraine Toussaint shocked audiences on the smash hit Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black" as the viciously seductive inmate Vee. Toussaint's thrilling performance has won her glowing reviews from the likes of TV Guide and Vanity Fair, stirring the Emmy buzz for her outstanding performance. Toussaint also received praise for her performance in the Academy Award-nominated feature film "Selma." Up next, Toussaint will star in the new Fox series "Rosewood", alongside Morris Chestnut, which premieres this fall.
Born in Trinidad, Toussaint and her mother moved to Brooklyn, NY, where she was raised, when she was ten years old. Growing up, she watched a lot of television while she waited for her mother to return from work, and this sparked her interest in acting. Toussaint begged her mother to enroll her in acting school, and her search led to her studying theater at New York's renowned High School of Performing Arts. After graduation, she enrolled in the Juilliard School's drama division, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with "Shakespeare & Company."
Toussaint spent the first 12 years of her career acting on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Her first television appearance was in 1983 in "The Face of Rage." Toussaint's biggest career boost has come from her co-starring role opposite Annie Potts in the TV series "Any Day Now," which earned Toussaint an NAACP Image Award nomination for best actress in a drama series, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association.
Among Toussaint's TV credits were recurring roles on several popular television shows, such as NBC's drama series "Friday Night Lights," TNT's "Saving Grace," "Law & Order," and ABC's hit "Ugly Betty." She has also had several guest appearances on the hit television shows "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Grey's Anatomy," and the drama thriller "Scandal" opposite Kerry Washington.
No stranger to the silver screen, Touissant's first film role was opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy "Breaking In." Touissant has also appeared in "Dangerous Minds," "The Soloist," and Ava DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere," in which her performance was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Up next, Toussaint stars as Salome Whitmore in the upcoming period drama "Sophie and the Rising Sun," written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. Toussaint will also play Anthony Mackie's mother in the upcoming Seth Rogen comedy "X-Mas," scheduled for theaters this November.
Toussaint and her daughter split their time between New York and Los Angeles.- Music Artist
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Nicki Minaj was born Onika Tanya Maraj on December 8, 1982 in St. James, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago and raised in Queens, New York City, New York. She grew up in a troubled family with a father that was a drug addict who later changed after he checked into rehab and started going to church. Minaj went to LaGaurdia High School and studied singing and acting.
She was first spotted by the CEO of Young Money, and was later recruited for The Carter Edition of Young Money's own "The Come Up" DVD series. Her rapping skills caught the eyes of Lil Wayne who later worked with her for many collaborations with his mixtapes.
In April 2007, Minaj released her first mixtape "Playtime Is Over". One year later she made another mixtape "Sucka Free" which made her Female Artist of the Year at the Underground Music Awards. In 2009 she made her third mixtape "Beam Me Up Scotty" which got positive reviews from BET and MTV.
To date, Nicki has released 3 platinum selling studio albums, Pink Friday, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, and the most recent The Pinkprint- Actor
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Dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family. One of four children, he was taught painting and dancing by his older brother Boscoe Holder, whose dance troupe, the Holder Dance Company, the young Geoffrey joined when he was seven years old. Geoffrey assumed direction of the company in the late 1940s after Boscoe moved to London.
Holder moved to the US in 1954, two years after being "discovered" by Agnes de Mille, the choreographer daughter of director-producer Cecil B. DeMille, after she saw the Holder Dance Company perform in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Holder, a talented painter, sold a score of his paintings to raise the funds to bring the Holder Dance Company to New York City in 1954 (in 1957 Holder won a Guggenheim Fellowship to study painting). He would appear with his dance company, now titled Geoffrey Holder and Company, in New York through 1960.
On December 30, 1954, Holder made his Broadway debut (as did Diahann Carroll) at the Alvin Theatre in the Caribbean-themed original musical "House of Flowers", with music by Harold Arlen, who also co-wrote the book with Truman Capote. The cast included Pearl Bailey and Alvin Ailey, and the show was directed by Peter Brook. Herbert Ross did the choreography but the "Banda Dance" was choreographed by Holder. The show ran for 165 total performances but, more importantly, Holder met and married fellow cast member 'Carmen DeLavallade', a dancer, and the two had a son together. From 1955 through 1956 Holder was a principal dancer with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.
Holder played the role of Lucky in a revival of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" directed by Herbert Berghof on Broadway in January 1957. The all-black cast also included Geoff Searle as Vladimir, Rex Ingram as Pozzo and Mantan Moreland as Estragon. The show only lasted six performances, but it established Holder as an actor, and he made his film debut four years later in All Night Long (1962), a modern gloss on William Shakespeare's "Othello". His most famous role was as the heavy "Baron Samedi" in the James Bond movie Live and Let Die (1973), Roger Moore's first turn as 007.
Holder won the 1975 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his staging of the Broadway musical "The Wiz" (1975), the all-African American retelling of "The Wizard of Oz." He also won the Tony for best costume design (he would be nominated again for a Tony for best costume design for the original 1978 Broadway musical "Timbuktu!", which he also directed and choreographed). As a choreographer he has created dance pieces for many companies, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Holder has written two books, one on folklore and one on Caribbean cuisine. In the 1970s and 1980s, he put his striking 6'6" presence and bass voice to good use hawking various products in TV commercials, including soft drinks.- Actress
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One of the most famous presenters of Play School (1964) she has recently devoted her life to charity work. As well as sitting on the Board of Governors of Britain's National Film & Television School, she was awarded the OBE by the Queen for services to broadcasting and charity in 2001.
As of 28th May 2010, she is formally known as Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham, in the county of Kent, upon her elevation to the peerage of the United Kingdom in the Dissolution Honours List published that day (the list names those individuals receiving Honours from the Monarch at a time following the dissolution of the UK Parliament), after nomination by the Liberal Democrat party. On 28th June 2010 Lady Benjamin took her seat as a Life Peer in the House of Lords, the upper house of the UK Parliament, where she has said she "...will be devoting much energy to the well being of children and young people".- Actress
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Dominique Jackson was born on 20 March 1975 in Scarborough, Trinidad and Tobago. She is an actress and producer, known for Pose (2018), In Every Dream Home and The Patience of Vultures. She was previously married to Al Jackson.- Barbara Eve Harris was born in Tobago to Jamaican parents and moved to Canada at the age of 6 with her family. Raised and educated in Ottawa, the national capital, she graduated from the University of Ottawa with a B.A. (concentration in Theatre and Philosophy). The initial plan was for Law School, but despite offers of admission, including scholarships, she followed her heart to be a performer instead.
Although trained mainly as an actor, her professional career began with a dance role in New York City in "Follies de Paris", a Vegas style review. It was dancing that led to her film debut in "Night Magic", a fantasy musical shot in Montreal, Quebec. This first movie role also meant a return to acting, and led to a thriving film and television career of 25 years (to date). A recipient of several regional Canadian awards for acting, and a Gemini nomination for Best Actress In A Continuing Leading Dramatic Role (as Wanda Gibbs in "Side Effects"), she chose to expand her horizons and relocated to Los Angeles in 1998.
Barbara's many starring roles span the range from tough U.S. Army Ranger Drill Instructor Sgt. Rhodes (Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)) to grief-stricken widow and mother Janice Crosby, opposite Louis Gossett Jr. (In His Father's Shoes (1997)). Her credits include some 9 theatrical features, 20 television features, and more than 100 episodic television appearances, including the role of FBI Agent Felicia Lang in the final 3 seasons of the hit series Prison Break (2005). Aside from numerous locations within North America, she has also filmed in the Philippines (Dead Men Can't Dance (1997)), New Zealand (Nightmare Man (1999)), Hawaii (ER (1994)) and Bogotá, Colombia (Mental (2009)). - Leading and supporting African-American actor, Austin Stoker has been recognized since the '70s. Born and raised in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, West Indies, he attributes his affinity for the performing arts to being - since age 6 - a devoted participant in the over 200-year-old Trinidadian carnival - reportedly "The World's Most Colorful Festival". At 16, Austin's dream was to attend London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. That dream never came true. But as chance would have it, he was invited to join the Geoffrey Holder Dance Group in his hometown in Trinidad, which brought him to New York and landed in a Broadway show playing the steel drum, the musical instrument invented in Trinidad. As an all-around percussionist and singer, Austin worked with the group steadily for three years in concerts and clubs, until he was drafted into the US Army. Upon his return to civilian life, he became a permanent US resident and eventually began his dramatic training at New York's HB Studio, culminating in a scholarship under the tutelage of the distinguished exegete and author Uta Hagen. While performing on-screen, he has also been active consistently on the stage as well. His first major role on-screen was Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) playing MacDonald. He later returned for the short-lived TV series Return to the Planet of the Apes (1975) and a short role in Airport 1975 (1974). His parts, however, got him the attention of a couple of "blaxploitation" directors of the early 70s. He took the lead role in the exploitation thriller The Get-Man (1974) and Abby (1974) and as Pam Grier's undercover sidekick and lover in the hit film 'Sheba, Baby' (1975), all three films directed by the late William Girdler. But Austin has probably mostly been recognized and remembered for his lead performance as Lt. Ethan Bishop whose police station is besieged by a gang in John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). He eventually took co-star and supporting roles in the late '70s to the early '80s in films like Time Walker (1982) and did numerous guest appearances on popular television shows. Although Austin's activity in films in recent years has been less than he would prefer, he continues to work on stage.
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Mishael Morgan was born on July 15, in San Fernando, Trinidad. At the age of five, her family emigrated to Toronto, Canada. Mishael caught the acting bug at the age of ten, during her elementary school's production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat". She never pursued acting professionally, until a chance meeting with her, now agent, David Ritchie. Mishael studied Political Science at York University, and had just accepted an offer to Ottawa University's LLB program, when Ritchie convinced her, to try her hand at acting. Mishael impressed producers at her very first audition, landing her a role in Trey Songz "Wonder Woman" music video. A short ten months, and a couple roles later, Mishael scored her first series-regular role as Tracy Dupont-Roymont in YTV's "Family Biz"(2009). Since then, Mishael has continued to make her name known on both the small and big screens. Landing roles on hit television shows like, "The Best Years" (2009), "Republic of Doyle" (2012), and CW's "Beauty & The Beast" (2012). As well as features films like, "Beat The World" (2011), "Casino Jack" (2010) and "Total Recall" (2012). Most recently, Mishael's portrayal of Hilary Curtis on the "The Young and The Restless"(2018), landed her, her first Daytime Emmy Nomination.- Actor
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Rudolph Walker was born on 28 September 1939 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for EastEnders (1985), King Ralph (1991) and The Thin Blue Line (1995). He has been married to Evangeline Vincent since 2016. He was previously married to Dounne Alexander and Lorna Ross.- Actor
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Gerry Bednob was born on 10 June 1935 in Trinidad and Tobago. He is an actor and writer, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008).- Actress
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One of the early sound era's most attractive young leading ladies, doll-faced Marian Marsh enjoyed a short yet significant film career as the star of several memorable 1930s melodramas opposite some of the cinema's best, most charismatic lead actors. Her youthful, wide-eyed innocence combined with an innate delicacy to make a storybook heroine who was the perfect counterbalance to the licentious characters who often menaced her on film. So successful was she as a damsel in distress that she quickly became typecast, which impeded her development as an actress and helped bring her film career to a premature end.
The youngest of four children of a German chocolate manufacturer and his French-English wife, the future star was born Violet Ethelred Krauth on October 17, 1913, on the island of Trinidad, British West Indies. When World War I ruined his business, Mr. Krauth moved the family to Massachusetts, where his children developed an appreciation for the arts and theater.
During the mid 1920s, Violet's older sister Jean Fenwick became a student at Paramount's Astoria studio and later a Paramount contract player. When Jean signed a contract with FBO Pictures in Hollywood, the Krauth family moved to the West Coast, where Violet attended La Conte Junior High School and later Hollywood High. In 1928 Jean helped her strikingly attractive golden-haired sister secure a screen test with Pathe Studios, which promptly signed her but dropped her after a short film appearance. After another short pact with Samuel Goldwyn, Violet, now known as Marilyn Morgan, opted to study acting and voice with Nance O'Neil. In 1929 Warners signed the 16-year-old, who changed her name once again, this time to Marian Marsh.
Despite appearances in 30 short films starring James Gleason and a small part in Hell's Angels (1930), Marian's career seemed headed to oblivion when she won the role of her life in Svengali (1931), Warner's film remake of George L. Du Maurier's 1894 novel "Trilby"; the tragic tale of an artists' model who becomes a great singing diva under the hypnotic tutelage of the malevolent Svengali (charismatically portrayed by John Barrymore). According to Miss Marsh, she was tested for the plum role several times before being selected by Barrymore, apparently because she resembled his wife, Dolores Costello.
The immense critical and financial success of the film combined with young Miss Marsh's rave reviews to raise her Hollywood stock. Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1931, she became one of filmdom's top up-and-coming actresses. Hoping to exploit her growing popularity and capitalize on her ability to project warmth, sincerity and inner strength on screen, Warners cast her as virginal heroines in a series of films. Of special note were her compelling performances as the daughter of a woman driven to suicide by amoral newspaper editor Edward G. Robinson in Five Star Final (1931), a ballerina menaced by evil clubfooted puppeteer John Barrymore in The Mad Genius (1931), a sexy teen smitten with mature William Powell in The Road to Singapore (1931), and the fast talking Cinderella secretary of skirt-chasing financier Warren William in Beauty and the Boss (1932).
Just when it appeared as if Marian was on the verge of superstardom, she seemed to fall out of favor at Warners. After the critical failure of the much ballyhooed drama Under Eighteen (1931), a disappointed, exhausted Marian rebelled against the studio, which retaliated by not picking up her option. Her career never fully recovered.
After she departed Warners, the 19-year-old freelance actress compounded her problems and further diminished her reputation by accepting film work overseas and at minor studios. Although her performances in such films as The Sport Parade (1932), the British comedy Over the Garden Wall (1934) and A Girl of the Limberlost (1934) were admirable, low-budget production values and other assorted problems doomed the projects.
In 1935 Marian signed a two-year pact with Columbia Pictures and tried with some success to resurrect her foundering career. Of the eight Columbia pictures she made during the period 1935-36, four were memorable. She was excellent, if typecast, as a young girl mixed up with crooks and gangsters in the entertaining melodrama Counterfeit (1936), as the bespectacled daughter of a retailer in love with a shyster salesman in the charming B comedy Come Closer, Folks (1936), as an accursed young woman forced to marry murderer Boris Karloff in the fondly remembered suspense classic The Black Room (1935), and notably as the beautiful prostitute Sonya in Josef von Sternberg's controversial film version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's timeless novel Crime and Punishment (1935) starring Peter Lorre. Her performance in the latter is without a doubt one of the best, if not the best, of her career.
When her Columbia contract expired in 1936, Marian once again squandered her momentum and talent by appearing in routine second features. From 1937 to 1938, she made seven mostly forgettable films, the best of which was Republic's B drama Youth on Parole (1937), in which Marian was poignant as a girl suffering the rejection and prejudice associated with being a parolee.
In March 1938 Miss Marsh, long one of Hollywood's most eligible bachelorettes, wed stockbroker Albert Scott, the former husband of actress Colleen Moore. After the marriage she made only five more feature films. "I loved acting," she told author Richard Lamparski, "but I had become a professional because we needed the money. In 1938 I married a businessman and just drifted away from acting." PRC's money-starved comedy House of Errors (1942) is her last film to date.
In the late 1950s Marian, was briefly lured back to acting, appearing in an episode of the popular John Forsythe sitcom "Bachelor Father" and an episode of Schlitz Playhouse (1951) before retiring in 1959. One year later she married aviation pioneer and wealthy entrepreneur Clifford Henderson and moved to Palm Desert, California, a town Henderson founded in the 1940s.
In the 1960s Marian founded Desert Beautiful, a non-profit, all-volunteer conservation organization to promote environmental and beautification programs. "We planted palm trees along the West Coast and were the first to plant palms in the lower valley [Coachella] to Palm Springs. If you want to leave something behind, plant a tree!" she told author Dan Van Neste in a 1998 interview.
After Cliff Henderson died in 1984, Marian continued to live in the Henderson ranch house continuing her charitable work. Miss Marsh remained in Palm Desert through 2005 and died in 2006. Near her end, Miss March was less active but still committed to her beloved Desert Beautiful. She retains fond memories of her filmmaking years and expresses appreciation for the continuing interest in her career. When asked how she'd like to be remembered in 1998, the modest, ever-gracious star simply replied, "For doing my best. I think anything I've ever tried, I tried to do my best. In the end, that's all you can do!"- Actor
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Aki Aleong was born in Trinidad and Tobago. His distinguished career has spanned more than 60 years as an actor, singer, writer, producer, activist and martial arts and action film star.
Aki currently stars as Dr. Yuki Tano in Nico Santucci's feature film "Sarogeto" - a story revealing the complicated and emotional struggle that Japanese American Grace / Minami Stanton faces and the controversial decision she makes on this unorthodox journey of a woman's search to find peace for her family and spiritual enlightenment. It's a film filled with relevant and thought provoking subjects including depression, anxiety and suicide (accepted in Japanese culture versus Western). Sarogeto stars Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Eric Roberts, Winsor Harmon, Ruby Park, Koji Niiya, Aki Aleong, Angelica Bridges and Nikki Nikita. Much of this movie was shot in the Aokigahara Forest (Suicide Forest) in Japan and is partially subtitled in Japanese, with the majority in English. Additional locations include Tokyo, Laguna Beach, Marina del Rey and Newport Beach and the film is set for release in 2021.
Aki's career started on Broadway in "Teahouse of the August Moon" and "The Interview." He went on to star in more than 50 movies and 150 television shows and worked with such Academy Award-winners as Frank Sinatra Jr., Marlon Brando, Faye Dunaway, Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Ben Kingsley, John Mills, Ernest Borgnine, Jennifer Connelly and Martin Landau. His career included working with such prominent writers and directors as William Wyler (3 time Oscar winner), John Sturges, Martin Ritt, John Milius, Lionel Chetwynd, Philip Yordan, Mark Rydell, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Pearl S. Buck.
Aki has starred in features with the best martial artists in the world, including Cung Le in "Blizniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter" (2007) and "Savage Dog" (2017); Bolo Yeoung in Blizniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter"; and with Sammo Hung in "Martial Law" (1998). He worked with world-class female martial artists Cynthia Rothrock, in "Sci-Fighter" (2004). and Juju Chan, in "Savage Dog" (2017) and "Road to Hell" (2017). He worked with Scott Adkins in "Savage Dog" (2017); Darren Shahlavi in "Pound of Flesh" (2015); Gary Daniels, Al Leong and Ron Yuan in "Deadly Target" (1994); and with Gary Hudson, Jason Gedrick and Kim Delaney in "The Force" (1994).
Although he is a heroic rights activist in real life, Aki has often played villains in martial arts and action films. In "Braddock: Missing in Action III" (1988), Chuck Norris' character of Braddock, his wife and son are captured by soldiers of the sadistic Vietnamese General Quoc, played by Aki. Quoc kills Braddock's wife on the spot, and tortures Braddock and his son until he meets his death at the end of the film. Aki's numerous memorable roles include Senator Hidoshi during the first season of "Babylon 5"; Mr. Chiang in the weekly series of "V: The Series"; the Dalai Lama in "Superhero Movie" (2008); and the character of Colonel Mitamura in "Farewell to the King" with Nick Nolte.
Aki's musical talent was discovered by Frank Sinatra when they were filming together on the film "Lover's So Few". Sinatra signed Aki to his Reprise Records Label. Aki is the first Asian American to have a Top 100 record "Trade Winds", which he wrote and co-produced, on the National Charts in the US. Aki has served as a record executive and chaired the Fraternity of Recording Executives and was President of the Pan World Records and Golden Dragon publishing companies. He was the National Director of Black Promotion for Polydor/Polygram Records and also worked with Liberty/UA Records and Capitol Records. He also produced records for Columbia Records, Capitol, Liberty/UA, Arista and other prominent labels.
Aki served on the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild; was appointed National Chair of SAG'S EEOC, and was a member of the President's Diversity/Affirmative Action Task Force. He has also been Executive Director of AIM (Asians in Media), Vice President of The Media Coalition of Los Angeles and President of Media Action Network for Asian-Americans (MANAA). He received an Honorary Doctorate from New Dimensions University in 2013. Aki is the President and CEO of Mustard Seed Media Group and the Senior Advisor to Ace Studios in Hong Kong.- Actress
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Hazelle Goodman was born on 16 February 1959 in Trinidad and Tobago. She is an actress, known for Deconstructing Harry (1997), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) and Hannibal (2001).- Actor
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Quincy Chad was born on 11 September 1982 in Morvant, Trinidad and Tobago. He is an actor and producer, known for Snowfall (2017), Power (2014) and The Get Down (2016).- Nina Baden-Semper (born 1945) is a British actress of Trinidadian descent, best known for her role as Barbie Reynolds in the controversial 1970s sitcom LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR (co-starring Rudolph Walker) for Thames Television.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Nina Baden-Semper was a dancer when she first came to Britain; then she went on to an acting career that has spanned over 40 years. She has appeared in numerous radio, television, film, and theatre productions and has toured worldwide with many plays. She has had varied stage roles in dramatic works that range from The Bacchae by Euripides, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Moliere, and The Blacks by Jean Genet to modern thrillers such as Wait Until Dark and Stepping Out, as well as comedy roles. She has been a television presenter for children's programmes and also Morning Worship for the BBC, and has made numerous guest appearances on quizzes, talks, and panel shows nationally and internationally. Baden-Semper made two single releases and an album and was recently a rapper on the So Solid Crew video. She has appeared mainly in character parts in TV, including the ill-fated Crossroads revival in 2002. In 2006, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Memory Lane. Another notable television part after many years was in the BBC Two Black magazine showcase The A-Force in a series entitled Brothers and Sisters, in which she portrayed Elder Gittens' widow.
In 2005, Baden-Semper appeared as Mary Seacole at a Mary Seacole Bicentenary exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Baden-Semper has been the recipient of Joint Television Award and also Outstanding Female Personality, and was the subject for the ITV programme This Is Your Life on 12 March 1975. She was also given the Scarlet Ibis Award by the Trinidad & Tobago High Commission in London, UK, for meritorious service. - Sonny Caldinez was born on 1 July 1932 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He was an actor, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Fifth Element (1997) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on 12 April 2022.
- Sullivan Walker was born on 20 November 1946 in Success Village, Laventille, Trinidad and Tobago. He was an actor, known for The Firm (1993), Crocodile Dundee (1986) and Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005). He was married to Carol Mark-Walker. He died on 20 February 2012 in California, USA.
- Stefan Kalipha was born in 1940 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for For Your Eyes Only (1981), The Nativity Story (2006) and Ali G Indahouse (2002).
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Jacqueline Chan was born in July 1939 in Trinidad and Tobago. She is an actress and producer, known for Cleopatra (1963), Mutant Chronicles (2008) and Cruella (2021). She was previously married to David Saire.- Actress
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Tarita Virtue was born on 16 February 1970 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. She is an actress, known for Bar Starz (2008), Rude Boy: The Jamaican Don (2003) and Living the Dream (2006).- Oscar James was born on 25 July 1942 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Hardware (1990) and If Only (2004).
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Billy Ocean was born on 21 January 1950 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is a music artist and actor, known for The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Striptease (1996) and Filth (2013). He has been married to Judy Bayne since October 1982. They have three children.- Director
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Horace Ové was born on 3 December 1936 in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. He was a director and writer, known for Pressure (1976), Reggae (1971) and Play for Today (1970). He was married to Annabelle Alcazar, Mary Irvine and Jean Balosingh. He died on 16 September 2023 in London, England, UK.- Trevor McDonald was born on 16 August 1939 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for Johnny English (2003), Coronation Street (1960) and 3 Steps to Heaven (1995). He is married to Josephine. They have two children.
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Jeffery Kissoon was born on 4 September 1947 in Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He is an actor and writer, known for Hamlet (1996), Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) and Dirty Pretty Things (2002).- Writer
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Steven Pressfield was born in September 1943 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is a writer, known for Above the Law (1988), The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and Freejack (1992).- Actor
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Adande Thorne, aka sWooZie, is an actor, comedian, animator, director, professional gamer and YouTube star. Adande initially began his career as a professional gamer and traveled the world to compete in events appearing regularly on IGN and G4. His videos chronicled his journey and created a large and loyal following. Adande's content has grown to encompass animated videos and humorous anecdotes about life that have garnered millions of views.- Actor
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He was born Lancelot Victor Edward Pinard, to well-to-do Anglophile parents in Trinidad. Oddly though, it wasn't until schooling took him to New York City in 1940 that he discovered a love of calypso music. In a profession where successful artists commonly took names like King Radio or Lord Invader, it was natural for someone named Lancelot to choose the stage name Sir Lancelot, and with that name he wrote and performed calypso (with some acting on the side) for movies, live theater, and radio beginning in the 1940's.- Producer
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Jolene Mendes was born in Trinidad and Tobago. Jolene is a producer and production manager, known for Edge of Everything (2023), Bienvenidos a Los Angeles (2023) and She Paradise (2021).- Stokely Carmichael was born on 29 January 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He was married to Marlyatou Barry and Miriam Makeba. He died on 15 November 1998 in Conakry, Guinea.
- Lou Ferguson was born on 8 August 1944 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Interpreter (2005) and American Playhouse (1980).
- Vikki Richards was born on 29 December 1949 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. She was an actress, known for The Love Factor (1969), Black Snake (1973) and The Onedin Line (1971). She died on 6 March 2024 in Valsayn, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Dwight Yorke was born on 3 November 1971 in Canaan, Tobago. He is an actor, known for Pepsi - Manchester United vs Juventus Referee (1999), Nike - The Mission (2000) and The Joy of Pepsi (Foosball) (2001).
- Anya Ayoung-Chee was born on 17 October 1981 in Trinidad and Tobago. She has been married to Wyatt Gallery since January 2018. They have one child.
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Susan Moonsie was born on 21 January 1964 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad & Tobago. She is an actress, known for Purple Rain (1984), Vanity 6: Nasty Girl (1982) and Vanity 6: Drive Me Wild (1982).- Janelle Commissiong was born in 1953 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Jean Fenwick was born on 30 May 1907 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. She was an actress, known for I've Been Around (1935), Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938) and Mary of Scotland (1936). She died on 5 December 1998 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Christopher Mayer was born in 1961 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for Lantana (2001), Home and Away (1988) and Hey Dad..! (1987).- Script and Continuity Department
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Darcus Howe was born on 26 February 1943 in Moruga, Victoria, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He was a producer, known for Partition (1987), Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Bob Marley Story (1984) and Viv Richards - King of Cricket (1987). He was married to Leila Hassan and Una Howe. He died on 1 April 2017 in Streatham, London, England, UK.- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Andy Dardaine, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Andy relocated to Orlando, Florida where he attended the University of Central Florida. During his studies, Andy landed numerous roles in commercials as well as on the stage at the Conservatory. After successfully completing his undergraduate studies, Andy was recognized as being the first African American to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Conservatory at The University of Central Florida. Andy now lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to be successful in his career.- Composer
- Writer
- Music Department
Edmundo Ros was born on 7 December 1910 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago]. He was a composer and writer, known for A Good Year (2006), Paddington (2014) and Gangster No. 1 (2000). He was married to Britt Johansen. He died on 21 October 2011 in Alicante, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Joseph Morder was born on 5 October 1949 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is a director and writer, known for Les sorties de Charlerine Dupas I: L'été (1982), El cantor (2005) and Assoud le buffle (2002).- V.S. Naipaul was born on 17 August 1932 in Chaguanas, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He was a writer, known for The Mystic Masseur (2001), The Levin Interviews (1980) and Bookmark (1983). He was married to Nadira Khannum Alvi and Patricia Ann Hale. He died on 11 August 2018 in London, England, UK.
- Actor
- Stunts
Dwight D. Woods was born on 2 June 1959 in Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He is an actor, known for Charlie's Angels (2011), Only the Strong (1993) and The Island (2023).- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Wayne Brathwaite was born on 14 August 1959 in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago. Wayne was a composer, known for EastEnders (1985), Kenny G: Hi, How Ya Doin'? (1983) and Billy Ocean: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (1985). Wayne died on 15 December 1991 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.- Actor
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Pete DeFreitas was born on 2 August 1961 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]. He was an actor and composer, known for Donnie Darko (2001), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017). He died on 14 June 1989 in London, England, UK.- Sunil Narine was born on 26 May 1988 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago. He has been married to Nandita Kumar since 2013.
- Roy den Burger was born on 31 July 1975 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. He is an actor, known for Vengaboys: We Like to Party (The Vengabus) (1998), Vengaboys: Parada de Tettas (1997) and Vengaboys: To Brazil! (1998).
- Ian Hanomansing was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.