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A tribute to all the actors and actresses who have brought legends back to life through films.

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

1. Usher

Usher

Usher will play famed boxer Sugar Ray Leonard.

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

2. Alexandra Shipp

Alexandra Shipp

Alexandra played Aaliyah in the Lifetime biopic about her life.

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

3. Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

OWN announced that Toni Braxton is set to star as Darlene Love in the network’s first scripted TV film “My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story.”

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

4. Idris Elba

Idris Elba

Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela in Mandela

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

5. Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in Winnie

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

6. Will Smith

Will Smith

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

7. Beyonce

Beyonce

Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

8. Andre 3000

Andre 3000

Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

9. Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

10. Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett

Angela Bassett as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It and Coretta Scott King in Coretta and Betty.

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

11. Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42 and James Brown

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

12. Charlayne Woodard

Charlayne Woodard

Charlayne Woodard as Gail Devers in Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

13. Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ben Carson and James Robert Kennedy

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

14. Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomn Northrup in 12 Years A Slave

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

15. Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington as Steve Biko in Biko and Malcolm X

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

16. Derek Luke

Derek Luke

Derek Luke as Antwone Fisher

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

17. Dorian Harewood

Dorian Harewood

Dorian Harewood as Jesse Owens The Jesse Owens Story

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

18. Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker as Eugene Allen in The Butler

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

19. Imani Hakim

Imani Hakim

Imani Hakim as Gabby Douglas (ages 14-16) in The Gabby Douglas Story

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

20. Jamal Woolard

Jamal Woolard

Jamal Woolard as Christopher “Biggie” Wallace in Notorious

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

21. Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

22. Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King, Jr.

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

23. Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee in The Tuskegee Airmen

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

24. Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker in the Josephine Baker Story

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

25. Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz in Coretta and Betty

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

26. Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

27. Quinton Aaron

Quinton Aaron

Quinton Aaron in the Blind SIde

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

28. Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson as Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

29. Shirley Jo Finney

Shirley Jo Finney

Shirley Jo Finney as Wilma Rudolph in Wilma

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

30. Sydney Mikayla

Sydney Mikayla

Sydney Mikayla as Gabby Douglas (age: 7-12) in The Gabby Douglas Story

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

31. Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard as James ‘Jim’ Ellis in Pride

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc

32. Diana Ross

Diana Ross

Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues

Biopic Brothers and Sisters was originally published on ioneblackamericaweb.staging.go.ione.nyc