Phylicia Rashad for her role in "A Raisin in the Sun".
juanita hall in 1948 in south pacific. the question is first actress not lead actress
Sybil Lockhart
Halle Berry is a mix of African American and Caucasian. She has been an actress since 1989. She became the first African American woman as of 2009 to receive a best actress award.
my first impression is that she is black.
anya terrell
Sabrina Alashi
Probably Audra McDonald? Opera singer and Tony Award winning Broadway actress.
The African American actress in the VCast commerical is Vanessa Simmons.
Ruby Dee is an African-American actress, poet, playwright, and screenwriter.
Because she's from South Africa, making her....African American.
Sybil Lockhart
Halle Berry is a mix of African American and Caucasian. She has been an actress since 1989. She became the first African American woman as of 2009 to receive a best actress award.
Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American to win Best Supporting Actress. She won for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).
halle berry
Well, in the case of South African-born actress Charlize Theron, she became a naturalized American citizen -- although she holds dual citizenship. A stand-up comic once joked that Theron was the second African-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hattie McDaniel
my first impression is that she is black.
An African American comedic actress and former model.