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

Usher will play famed boxer Sugar Ray Leonard.
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2. Alexandra Shipp

Alexandra played Aaliyah in the Lifetime biopic about her life.
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3. 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.”
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4. Idris Elba

Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela in Mandela
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5. Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson as Winnie Mandela in Winnie
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6. Will Smith

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali
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7. Beyonce

Beyonce as Etta James in Cadillac Records
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8. Andre 3000

Andre 3000 as Jimi Hendrix
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9. Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone
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10. Angela Bassett

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

Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42 and James Brown
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12. Charlayne Woodard

Charlayne Woodard as Gail Devers in Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
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13. Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ben Carson and James Robert Kennedy
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14. Chiwetel Ejiofor

Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomn Northrup in 12 Years A Slave
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15. Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington as Steve Biko in Biko and Malcolm X
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16. Derek Luke

Derek Luke as Antwone Fisher
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17. Dorian Harewood

Dorian Harewood as Jesse Owens The Jesse Owens Story
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18. Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker as Eugene Allen in The Butler
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19. Imani Hakim

Imani Hakim as Gabby Douglas (ages 14-16) in The Gabby Douglas Story
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20. Jamal Woolard

Jamal Woolard as Christopher “Biggie” Wallace in Notorious
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21. Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray
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22. Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King, Jr.
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23. Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne as Hannibal Lee in The Tuskegee Airmen
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24. Lynn Whitfield

Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker in the Josephine Baker Story
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25. Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige as Betty Shabazz in Coretta and Betty
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26. Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station
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27. Quinton Aaron

Quinton Aaron in the Blind SIde
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28. Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson as Ken Carter in Coach Carter
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29. Shirley Jo Finney

Shirley Jo Finney as Wilma Rudolph in Wilma
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30. Sydney Mikayla

Sydney Mikayla as Gabby Douglas (age: 7-12) in The Gabby Douglas Story
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31. Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard as James ‘Jim’ Ellis in Pride
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32. Diana Ross

Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues
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