Unforgettable Black Villains

Grace Jones at an event for A View to a Kill (1985)

Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Halle Berry and Charles S. Dutton in Gothika (2003)

Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001)

Ving Rhames in Pulp Fiction (1994)

Mel Johnson Jr. in Total Recall (1990)

Douglas Silva in City of God (2002)

Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man (1993)

Keith David in Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Michael B. Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, and Sydelle Noel in Black Panther (2018)

Sylvester Stallone and Mr. T in Rocky III (1982)

Samuel L. Jackson in Django Unchained (2012)

Morgan Freeman in Wanted (2008)

Harry Lennix in Titus (1999)

Samuel L. Jackson in Glass (2019)

Eamonn Walker in Lord of War (2005)

Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die (1973)

James Earl Jones in Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation (2015)

Tony Todd in Candyman (1992)

Geoffrey Holder in Live and Let Die (1973)

Mo'Nique in Precious (2009)

Viola Davis in The Suicide Squad (2021)

Danny Glover in The Color Purple (1985)