15 Black Actors Who’ve Made Spy Movie History
Halle Berry’s action hero Jinx in Die Another Day (2002) changed the image of the Bond ‘girl’ to Bond ‘woman’- a grown-up beauty capable of taking on 007.
Berry also helped diversify the espionage genre, pioneering the way for more black actresses and actors to put their sizzling stamp on spy movies. SPYSCAPE salutes Berry and 14 other black celebrities with a countdown to some of our favorites.
14. Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson earned his Oscar nomination playing Jules, a hitman in 1994’s Pulp Fiction, but the celeb has actually acted in more than 150 films, putting him in the Top 10 actors who've starred in the most movies. His spy credits include Unthinkable (2010) a psychological, black-ops thriller where he plays a ruthless US operative, Henry Harold 'H' Humphries, a man willing to try anything - even torture - to get intel. (Prime Video, Apple TV, GooglePlay, YouTube)
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