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The Most Famous

ACTORS from Trinidad and Tobago

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This page contains a list of the greatest Trinidadian Actors. The pantheon dataset contains 9,996 Actors, 4 of which were born in Trinidad and Tobago. This makes Trinidad and Tobago the birth place of the 74th most number of Actors behind Slovakia and Azerbaijan.

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Trinidadian Actors of all time. This list of famous Trinidadian Actors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Geoffrey Holder (1930 - 2014)

With an HPI of 44.99, Geoffrey Holder is the most famous Trinidadian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Geoffrey Lamont Holder (August 1, 1930 – October 5, 2014) was a Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, musician, and artist. He was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet before his film career began in 1957 with an appearance in Carib Gold. In 1973, he played the villainous Baron Samedi in the Bond film Live and Let Die. He also carried out advertising work as the pitchman for 7 Up.

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2. Lorraine Toussaint (1960 - )

With an HPI of 42.32, Lorraine Toussaint is the 2nd most famous Trinidadian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 23 different languages.

Lorraine Toussaint ( born April 4, 1960) is a Trinidadian-American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including a Black Reel Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Toussaint began her career in theatre, before supporting performances in films such as Breaking In (1989), Hudson Hawk (1991), and Dangerous Minds (1995). As lead actress, she is best known for her role as Rene Jackson in the critically acclaimed Lifetime television drama series Any Day Now, from 1998 to 2002, and her recurring role as defense attorney Shambala Green in the NBC legal drama Law & Order. She later appeared as a regular cast member in the NBC police procedural Crossing Jordan (2002–03) and the TNT crime drama Saving Grace (2007–10). Toussaint received critical acclaim and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in the 2012 drama film Middle of Nowhere, written and directed by Ava DuVernay. In 2014, she played the role of Yvonne "Vee" Parker, the main antagonist in the second season of the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, for which she received critical acclaim and a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She also played the role of Amelia Boynton Robinson in the 2014 historical drama film Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay. Toussaint later co-starred in the ABC fantasy-drama series Forever (2014–15), the Fox comedy-drama Rosewood (2015–17), the AMC drama Into the Badlands (2018–19), NBC drama The Village (2019) and CBS crime drama The Equalizer (2021–present). Additionally, she appeared in films Fast Color (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), The Glorias (2020) and Concrete Cowboy (2020).

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3. Marian Marsh (1913 - 2006)

With an HPI of 41.08, Marian Marsh is the 3rd most famous Trinidadian Actor.  Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Marian Marsh (born Violet Ethelred Krauth; October 17, 1913 – November 9, 2006) was a Trinidad-born American film actress and later an environmentalist.

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4. Winston Duke (1986 - )

With an HPI of 37.29, Winston Duke is the 4th most famous Trinidadian Actor.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages.

Winston Duke (born 15 November 1986) is a Tobagonian-Rwandan actor. He made his feature film debut in the role of M'Baku in Black Panther (2018) and is best known for portraying the character in four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Duke was born in the village of Argyle, Tobago. With his sister and mother, Duke moved to Brooklyn at age nine. After graduating from the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts in acting in 2013, Duke had small roles in theatre productions and television shows such as Person of Interest and Modern Family. He portrayed M'Baku in four Marvel Studios films and also starred in Jordan Peele's horror film Us (2019). Duke's latest role was M'Baku in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022).

Pantheon has 4 people classified as actors born between 1913 and 1986. Of these 4, 2 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living actors include Lorraine Toussaint and Winston Duke. The most famous deceased actors include Geoffrey Holder and Marian Marsh. As of April 2022, 2 new actors have been added to Pantheon including Geoffrey Holder and Marian Marsh.

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