15 most famous male black actors in their 50s (2022)- Young Black Male Actors in Hollywood

Ranking Top 15 most famous male black actors in their 50s as of 2022 is not an easy task. The difficult part is, who’d you exclude from the list? Black Actors have won the hearts of millions of their fans by their handsome chiselled body that a woman can only dream of.

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1. Don Cheadle

   
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2. Eriq La Salle

   
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3. Wesley Snipes

   
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4. Will Smith

   
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5. Leon Robinson

   
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6. Harold Perrineau

   
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7. Wendell Pierce

   
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8. Lance Reddick

   
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9. Tommy Davidson

   
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10. Richard Brooks

    
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11. D.L. Hughley

    
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12. K. Todd Freeman

    
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13. J. B. Smoove

    
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14. Blair Underwood

    
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15. Michael Beach

    
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How we’ve measured the popularity of these Young Black Male Actors in Hollywood as of 2021?

In present age, measuring one’s popularity is not that tough. Especially if someone has extensive footprint in digital arena i.e on internet, the task becomes even easier. One’s popularity can easily be measured by number of his Instagram followers, Twitter Followers, Facebook Followers, number of monthly Google search by his name, number of articles on Google on his name etc.. The more the value of these parameters, the more popular he is.

Which search term we’ve used to find out the number of articles on Google against an Young Black Male Actors name?

To find out the number of articles published on any famous young black male actors in Hollywood, we’ve used allintitle:Name of the actor in Google search field. See the picture below to better understand. Here allintitle: operator returns all the search results which have the name of the actor in the title of the article.

We searched allintitle:Richard Brooks (No space after colon) and got the result. He is having 34,000 articles published on Google as on May 20, 2022 as shown in the picture above.

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Who are Black Americans?

Black Americans or African Americans are an ethnic group in America with total or partial ancestry links to black racial groups in Africa. African Americans, today, constitute the third largest ethnic group in America. Arrival of Black Americans in America mostly started from 16th century as a part of transatlantic slave trade by Europeans. They mostly transported to mainland America from West and Central Africa. The first record of arrival of these black people dates back to August 1619. The record “20 and odd negroes“, which states, they were shipped to Jamestown, Virginia via Cape Comfort. Today Black Americans are as successful on American soil as other Europeans. Below is the list of Top 15 most famous male black actors in their 50s in Hollywood as of 2022.

15. Will Smith, 53 years 7 months 25 days

14. K. Todd Freeman, 56 years 10 months 11 days

13. J. B. Smoove, 56 years 5 months 4 days

12. Don Cheadle, 57 years 5 months 21 days

11. Blair Underwood, 57 years 8 months 26 days

10. Eriq La Salle, 59 years 9 months 28 days

Did You Know – Eriq La Salle

1. Eriq La Salle is an alumnus of Weaver High School and the Artists Collective, Inc. in Hartford.
2. He attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Graduate Acting Program
3. La Salle directed the episode “Wingman” in the Fox series Lucifer
4. La Salle’s first novel Laws of Depravity was published in 2012
5. he produced a feature film The Salton Sea in 2002

9. Leon Robinson (usually credited as simply Leon), 60 years 2 months 12 days

Did You Know – Leon Robinson

1. Leon Preston Robinson is known as Leon
2. Robinson is best known for his roles as David Ruffin in the TV Movie The Temptations (1998)
3. Robinson’s early film roles included a football teammate of Tom Cruise in All the Right Moves (1983)
4. Robinson has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of three singers: David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, Little Richard in the self-titled 2000 NBC movie biography, and JT in the 20th Century Fox movie, The Five Heartbeats directed by Robert Townsend.
5. Robinson starred in the 20th Century Fox thriller Cover, directed by Bill Duke, and starred alongside Danny Masterson and Dominique Swain in the indie comedy The Brooklyn Heist, directed by Julian Mark Kheel.
6. Robinson is the lead vocalist and songwriter of the band, Leon and the Peoples
7. Robinson first appeared in the movie Sole Survivor as Gang Leader

8. Harold Perrineau, 58 years 9 months 13 days

Did You Know – Harold Perrineau

1. His parents changed his name to Williams when he was a child
2. Perrineau has been married to former actress and model Brittany Perrineau (née Robinson) since 2002
3. Harold Perrineau is best known for his roles as Michael Dawson on the television series Lost (2004–2008; 2010), Link in The Matrix franchise (2003), and Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996)
4. Perrineau was born in Brooklyn, New York City.
5. Perrineau was cast as the original Tyrone Jackson in the world premiere of the stage adaptation of the 1980 hit movie Fame (now known as Fame: The Musical) at the Walnut Street Theatre, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

7. Wendell Pierce, 58 years 5 months 12 days, Black actors in their 50s

Did You Know – Wendell Pierce

1. Pierce was born to a teacher and a decorated World War II veteran who worked as a maintenance engineer
2. Pierce was raised in the black middle-class community of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American post-war suburb
3. Pierce graduated in 1981[5] from both Benjamin Franklin High School
4. Pierce is also a theater producer and produced the Broadway show, Clybourne Park.
5. Pierce became the host of the nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-winning radio program, Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2009
6. Pierce considers himself a “true capitalist” and a “classic entrepreneur”
7. Pierce was a vocal supporter of Hillary Clinton
8. Pierce was arrested in 2016 and charged with simple battery for an alleged attack against a female Bernie Sanders supporter outside Atlanta Loews Hotel

6. Lance Reddick, 59 years 4 months 20 days

Did You Know – Lance Reddick

1. Lance Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland
2. He attended Friends School of Baltimore
3. Reddick enrolled in the Yale School of Drama in 1991.
4. Reddick released his debut album Contemplations & Remembrances in 2007

5. Tommy Davidson, 58 years 6 months 10 days

Did You Know – Tommy Davidson

1. Tommy Davidson was born as Anthony Reed in Rolling Fork, Mississippi
2. He was abandoned in the trash at 18 months old, before being rescued by the woman who became his adoptive mother
3. Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian in 1986
4. Davidson won an amateur stand-up competition at the Apollo Theater in 1987

4. Richard Brooks, 59 years 7 months 11 days

Did You Know – Richard Brooks

1. Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at Interlochen Academy of Arts in Michigan
2. He was a student of the Circle in the Square Professional Theater School, New York City
3. Brooks net worth is estimated to be $3 million as of 2022
4. While in New York, Brooks performed in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference production of August Wilson’s Fences

3. D.L. Hughley, 59 years 2 months 14 days

Did You Know – D.L. Hughley

1. D.L. Hughley was born to Audrey and Charles Hughley, who was a Delta Air Lines maintenance worker in Los Angeles, California
2. Hughley also has a career as an on-air radio personality
3. Hughley and his wife, LaDonna, have two daughters, Ryan and Tyler, and a son, Kyle
4. Hughley was initiated as an honorary member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity on July 30, 2020

2. Wesley Snipes, 59 years 9 months 20 days, Black actors in their 50s

Did You Know – Wesley Snipes

1. Wesley Snipes was born to Marian (née Long), a teacher’s assistant, and Wesley Rudolph Snipes, an aircraft engineer in Orlando, Florida
2. He made his film debut in the 1986 Goldie Hawn vehicle Wildcats
3. Snipes began training in martial arts when he was 12 years old
4. He has a 5th degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nd degree black belt in Hapkido.
5. Snipes has been married twice, first to April Snipes (née Dubois), with whom he has a son Jelani, who had a cameo role in Snipes’ 1990 film Mo’ Better Blues. In 2003, Snipes married painter Nakyung “Nikki” Park, with whom he has four children
6. On April 24, 2008, Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for willful failure to file federal income tax returns under 26 U.S.C

1. Michael Beach, 58 years 6 months 21 days

Did You Know – Michael Beach

1. Michael Beach graduated from Juilliard School with a degree for the Bachelor of Fine Arts
2. His debutante movie was End of the Line in 1987
3. Beach’s prominent hit came in 1995, playing Angela Bassett’s unfaithful husband in the comedy-drama film Waiting to Exhale.

Who is the most famous male black actor in his 50s among these 15 actors?

Based on number of articles on Google as of May 20, 2022, Soul Food actor Michael Beach is the most famous black actor in his 50s. He was born on October 30, 1963. His current age is 58 years 6 months 21 days. Michael Beach has a whopping 594,000 articles on Google as of now. He is followed by Wesley Snipes (81,600 articles) and D.L. Hughley (46,100 articles).

If popularity is measured based on number of followers on Instagram, Wesley Snipes tops the list with 1.2 million followers as on date.

Things to remember while determining the popularity of these famous male black actors in their 50s

The number of articles on Google and social media followers like Twitter and Instagram clearly indicate one’s popularity. The more the number of followers, the more popular one is. At the same time, it is to be remembered that popularity fluctuates over time. If one is not shown on big screen or on television, popularity may dwindle. We’ve even seen, embroiling to controversy may lower the social media followers and thus the popularity. There is a marketing parameter, called Q-score to determine one’s popularity.

What is Q Score?

Q Score is a measure of, to how many people, a celebrity or a product is favourite. It is the ratio of people to whom the celebrity or product is favourite and how many people know about the celebrity or the product multiplied by 100. Q score is represented in percentage.

For example, let’s say Michael Beach’s Q score is 24%. This means he is favourite to 24 people out of 100 people who know him.