An Academy Award winner, Lupita Nyong'o is a Kenyan-Mexican actress best known for her movies like 12 Years A Slave and Star Wars. Before making her acting debut with a short film, Nyong’o got her acting degree from Yale School of Drama. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Film and Theater studies from Hampshire College. Her theater performances have constantly earned her critical acclaim. In 2016, she lent her voice for Raksha, the mother wolf in Disney’s live-action remake of The Jungle Book.

Lupita Nyong'o

Forest Whitaker is an award-winning American actor and filmmaker who made his debut with the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High. His portrayal of “gentle giant” characters has earned him worldwide popularity and awards like the BAFTA, the Golden Globe and the Oscar. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting. Some of his most well known movies include The Last King of Scotland, Bird, The Crying Game,The Butler and The Black Panther.  He has also appeared on several television shows such as Hill Street Blues and The Fall Guy.

Forest Whitaker

Chadwick Boseman is an American actor best known for playing the lead role of T’Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2016. He has also acted in TV series like Law & Order, Persons Unknown and Lincoln Heights. He is a Harvard graduate with a bachelor of fine arts in directing. He has also studied at New York City's Digital Film Academy before pursuing a full time career in acting. Boseman also writes scripts for theater and plays basketball. His intense portrayal of characters inspired from the real-life has earned him critical appreciation multiple times.

Chadwick Boseman

An American actor, Michael B.Jordan has featured in some of the highly acclaimed television dramas in the past decade. With brilliant performances in these drama series - The Wire (2002), Friday Nights Live (2009) and Parenthood (2010), he made Hollywood sit and notice his arrival. Although he made his film debut with Black and White in 1999, it was not until 2013 that he made his mark in movies with a knockout performance in Fruitvale Station. In subsequent years, he went on to play lead and pivotal roles in Creed (2015) with the legendary Sylvester Stallone and as the arch-rival Erik Killmonger in the Marvel’s Black Panther (2018).

Michael B. Jordan

Danai Gurira is an Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Also a teacher of acting and playwriting in Zimbabwe, she is best known for her roles in the horror series The Walking Dead and as Okoye in The Black Panther. In 2013, she received the NAACP Theatre Award for Best Playwright among other accolades.

Danai Gurira

Winston Duke is a Tobagonian actor who started his career with theater productions for Portland Stage Company and Yale Repertory Theatre. He was soon cast in the crime-drama series Person of Interest and then, entered the Marvel Cinematic Universe as M’Baku in Black Panther and other movies including Avengers: Infinity War. He has also appeared on other popular TV shows like Law & Order and Modern Family. He attended Yale School of Drama with fellow star Lupita Nyong’O and went to school with YouTube star Jenna Marbles.

Winston Duke

Emmy Award-winning Sterling K. Brown is an American actor best known for the television drama The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story. He appears in several award-winning shows like This is Us and The Mentalist. A graduate with a degree in acting from Stanford University, Brown has won an array of prestigious awards and accolades for his versatile performances in film and on TV. In 2018, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe as N’Jobu in Black Panther.

Sterling K. Brown

Martin Freeman is an English actor who rose to worldwide fame with the portrayal of Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy and appearing as Dr. John Watson in the BBC series Sherlock. He has also starred in films like Love Actually and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. He is known for playing mild-mannered characters in extraordinary circumstances. His impeccable acting skills have earned him major critical acclaim and several awards like the Emmy, the BAFTA and an Empire.

Martin Freeman

Letitia Wright is a British actress who primarily appears in British TV series like Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Glasgow Girls, Top Boy and Chasing Shadows. Her major film role that gained her worldwide recognition is that of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Her performance in Black Panther has earned her critical acclaim and is being applauded as a brand new definition to the idea of a “Disney Princess.”

Letitia Wright

Daniel Kaluuya is an English actor and writer. He made his debut in 2006 with Shoot the Messenger but he truly arrived with the 2017 releases Get Out and Black Panther. To add more to his glory, he also received the Oscar nomination for Get Out. He made his presence felt briefly in the TV series Black Mirror in the episode “Fifteen Million Hearts”. He was applauded for his smaller roles in Sicario (2015), Kick-Ass 2 (2013) and Johnny English Reborn (2011). His critically acclaimed performance in Get Out also got him nominations in various other prestigious award shows such as BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award. He went to be awarded the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2018.

Daniel Kaluuya

Best known for her biographical film roles, Angela Bassett is an American actress and activist. Previously employed as a photo-researcher for magazines, Bassett’s film career involves playing some of the most celebrated real-life black women of the world in movies like What’s Love Got to do with it?, Malcom X, The Jacksons: An American Dream, The Rosa Parks Story and Notorious. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University and a master of fine arts degree from drama school. She has received several prestigious awards for her performances including the Golden Globe.

Angela Bassett

Andy Serkis is an English actor and director who is critically acclaimed for his work in motion capture. Winner of several awards and nominations, Serkis is applauded for lending his voice to major characters in films like The Lord of the Rings trilogy and its spin-offs, several Star Wars films, King Kong and Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin. He is also greatly celebrated for his work in British TV, the most significant one being the portrayal of the serial killer Ian Brady in the drama Longford. Since 2015, Serkis has been appearing as Ulysses Klaue in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is married to actress Lorraine Ashbourne.

Andy Serkis

Black Panther (2018)

The film is set after the events of Captain America: Civil War. Based on the comic-book superhero Black Panther, the story begins with King T'Challa’s return to the technologically advanced, fictional African nation of Wakanda. However, he soon discovers that there are conspiracies to destroy Wakanda before he can take over as a leader. In order to protect his throne and to prevent a world war, T’Challa/ the Black Panther must team up with new allies. The film features Chadwick Boseman in the title role with Lupita Nyong’O playing the character Nakia, T’Challa’s former lover, now an undercover operative. 