List of entertainers who performed in blackface

This is a list of entertainers known to have performed in blackface makeup, whether in a minstrel show, as satire or historical depiction of such roles, or in a portrayal of a character using makeup as a racial disguise, for whatever reason. == A–C == Roy Acuff, country music singer, performed in blackface in 1930s-40s traveling medicine shows Scarlet Adams Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, in The Masque of Blackness Ant and Dec, in old Saturday Night Takeaway sketches Fred Armisen, impersonating U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008 and 2009 Clarence Ashley, 1910s-1940s singer and blackface comedian in traveling medicine shows Fred Astaire, in Swing Time (1936) and in Easter Parade (1948) Gene Autry Dan Aykroyd, in Trading Places (1983) David Baddiel, while portraying Jason Lee on a 1995 episode of Fantasy Football League Rita Baga Marcus "Buff" Bagwell, while performing for World Championship Wrestling Fay Bainter, as Topsy in a 1933 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin Milt G. Barlow, 19th-century American minstrel Ethel Barrymore, in the 1930 play Scarlet Sister Mary Billy Barty, in Roman Scandals (1933) and Rabbit Test (1978) Milton Berle in film Always Leave 'Em Laughing (1949) Jack Black, in Be Kind Rewind (2008) Sergei Bondarchuk, in Othello (1956) John Boulter, lead singer of the long-running Black and White Minstrel Show on the BBC Zach Braff, in the Scrubs episodes "My Friend the Doctor" and "My Chopped Liver" Frank Brower, 1840s-1860s minstrel performer David Byrne, in a promotional video for Stop Making Sense (1984) George Burns Butterbeans and Susie John Byner, in season 3, episode 1 of Soap Eddie Cantor, 1912-1927 performances in vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies Luke Carroll, an Aboriginal Australian actor, wore blackface in a dream sequence featured in the movie Stone Bros.

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