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This list of black animated characters lists fictional characters found on animated television series and in motion pictures. The Black people in this list include African American animated characters and other characters of Sub-Saharan African descent or populations characterized by dark skin color (a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania, the southern West Asia, and the Siddi of southern South Asia).
The names are organized alphabetically by surname (i.e. last name), or by single name if the character does not have a surname.
Character | Title | Duration | Voice Actor | Creator | Ref. |
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Bem | Humanoid Monster Bem | 1968–1969 | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Akira Adachi | [1] |
Franklin | Peanuts | 1965- | Robin Reed | Charles M. Schulz | [2] [3] [4] |
Lee Mendelson | |||||
Bill Melendez | |||||
Jake Miner | [5] | ||||
Marleik "Mar Mar" Walker | [6] | ||||
Caleel Harris | [7] | ||||
Christian Dal Dosso | [8] | ||||
Caleb Bellavance | [9] | ||||
Antonio Wilson | [10] | ||||
Pete Jones | The Hardy Boys | 1969–1971 | Dallas McKennon | Filmation | [11] |
William Alan Friedle is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Eric Matthews on the ABC sitcom Boy Meets World (1993–2000).
Takehito Koyasu is a Japanese voice actor from Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He is affiliated with and representative of T's Factory, a voice acting agency he founded in October 1998. His son Kōki Koyasu is also a voice actor. Koyasu has taken over many of the characters played by Kaneto Shiozawa after his death.
Joshua Luis Wiener, known by his stage name Josh Keaton, is an American actor. He is known for his many voice roles, including Takashi "Shiro" Shirogane in Voltron: Legendary Defender, Spider-Man in various media in addition to Electro in the video game Marvel's Spider-Man, Jack Darby in Transformers: Prime and the adolescent Hercules in Hercules. He was also the voice of Ryu Hayabusa in the console versions of Ninja Gaiden, and the voice of Revolver Ocelot in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He is also the voice of King Anduin Wrynn in the MMORPG World of Warcraft.
Benjamin Diskin, also professionally credited as Ben Diskin, is an American actor.
Laura Bailey is an American voice actress. She made her voice acting debut as Kid Trunks in the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z and has since voiced Emily / Glitter Lucky in Glitter Force, Tohru Honda in Fruits Basket, Lust in Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the title character in the Funimation dub of Shin-Chan, and Maka Albarn in Soul Eater. She is a cast member of the web series Critical Role, playing Vex'ahlia ("Vex"), Jester Lavorre, and Imogen Temult.
Travis Willingham is an American voice actor known for his character portrayals in video games and English anime dubs. His notable roles include Roy Mustang in the Fullmetal Alchemist franchise, Cleo in Glass Fleet, Ginko in Mushishi, Portgas D. Ace in One Piece, Takashi "Mori" Morinozuka in Ouran High School Host Club, Yu Kanda in D. Gray-man, and Cameron Campbell in Camp Camp.
Fred Tatasciore is an American voice actor who has provided voices in animated and live-action films, television shows, and video games. He is known for voicing the Hulk, Volstagg, and Beast in various Marvel media and Solomon Grundy in various DC media. Other characters he has voiced include Yosemite Sam, Taz, Nikolai Belinski from Call of Duty Zombies, Soldier: 76, Shao Kahn, and Kakuzu. Since 2021, he has starred as the title character in the adult animated series Hit-Monkey.
Liam Christopher O'Brien is an American voice actor, writer, and director. He is a regular cast member of the Dungeons & Dragons actual play series Critical Role, playing Vax'ildan ("Vax"), Caleb Widogast, and Orym. He has been involved in many video games, cartoons, and English-language adaptations of Japanese anime. His major anime roles include Gaara in Naruto, Naruto Shippuden, and Boruto, Vincent Law in Ergo Proxy, Captain Jushiro Ukitake in Bleach, Lloyd in Code Geass, Kenzo Tenma in Monster, Akihiko Sanada in Persona 3, and Nephrite in the Viz Media dub of Sailor Moon.
Taliesin Jaffe is an American voice actor, voice director and screenwriter. He has worked on English-dubbing roles for anime and video games. He is a cast member on Critical Role, a web series in which he plays Dungeons & Dragons with other voice actors. Jaffe has also frequently voiced the Flash in various video games.
Cristina Danielle Valenzuela, known professionally as Cristina Vee, is an American voice actress. She provides voices for English dubs of anime, animation, and video games.
Kaiji Tang, also known as Kaiji Von Tang, is a Chinese-born voice actor who is based in Los Angeles, California.
Matthew Christopher Miller, better known as Matthew Mercer, is an American actor and game designer. He has provided voice work for cartoons, animations, video games, and English dubs of anime.
Christopher Corey Smith is an American voice actor who voices in animated shows and video games. He is known for voicing Kittan Bachika in Gurren Lagann, Spandam in One Piece, and the Joker in the Lego Batman video games.
Robert Daymond Howard is an American voice actor who is mostly known for his roles in video games, animation, anime and audiobooks. Some of his best known roles include Spider-Man in Marvel's Spider-Man and various Marvel media, Mike, Orbulon and Young Cricket in WarioWare Gold, Megumi Fushiguro in Jujutsu Kaisen, Jesse Cosay in the second season of Infinity Train, Goro Akechi in Persona 5, Hubert von Vestra in Fire Emblem: Three Houses and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, Prompto Argentum in Final Fantasy XV, River Ward in Cyberpunk 2077, and on-camera as Dorian Storm in the Dungeons & Dragons actual play web series Critical Role and its spinoff Exandria Unlimited.
Persona 5: The Animation is an anime television series produced by CloverWorks based on the video game Persona 5 by Atlus. The anime series is directed by Masashi Ishihama and written by Shinichi Inotsume, with Tomomi Ishikawa adapting Shigenori Soejima's original character designs for the animation. Atlus employee Kazuma Kaneko created the original demon designs, while music composer Shoji Meguro reprised his role from the game. The series follows high schooler Ren Amamiya (Joker), the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, whose mission is to reform the hearts of corrupted adults in Shibuya using a mysterious phone application called the Metaverse Navigator.
High Guardian Spice is an American animated television series created by Raye Rodriguez, who formerly worked for Danger & Eggs as a character designer. The series is produced by Crunchyroll Studios, and was originally slated to be Crunchyroll's first original series before it was delayed for approximately 2 years. The series premiered on its streaming service on October 26, 2021.
Howard Wang is an American voice actor, known for his work in anime dubs.
Arryn Zech is an American voice actress. She is best known for voicing Blake Belladonna in the original anime-style CG-animated web series, RWBY and Dr. Emily Grey in Red vs. Blue, an American web series also created by Rooster Teeth.
provided the voice of "Pablo Robertson" for two separate animated series: HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS and THE NEW SCOOBY-DOO MOVIES
He has also lent his voice to an animated character on C-Bear and Jamal
In the past, Bishop has been featured many times in animated Marvel projects, which includes his portrayal as voiced by Philip Akin on X-Men: The Animated Series and by Kevin Michael Richardson in Wolverine and the X-Men.
For the series' first 8 seasons, Brock would be synonymous with his English voice actor, Eric Stuart...However, starting with Season 9, Stuart would be replaced with Bill Rogers who continued the role into Pokémon Sun and Moon
She was the voice of...Clio the Muse, Goddess of History, in Disney's Hercules.
When the Bebop crashes on Jupiter's moon Io in Session #17, Ed and Ein meet a bounty hunter named Coffee. The episode is an homage to "blaxploitation" crime movies of the 1970s. Coffee herself is a reference to the namesake of the 1973 movie Coffy...Coffee is styled like [Pam] Grier's character. The same episode has a character named Shaft, who is indeed modeled after the eponymous character in the 1971 film Shaft.
Coffee was a bounty hunter who briefly crossed paths with Ed and ended up having a terrible time because of it. Her visual design seemed inspired by Pam Grier's character "Coffy" from the 1973 film of the same name from Jack Hill...
Back in the day, Bumper co-starred with fellow Black voice actor Phil LaMarr in...Futurama as Dwight Conrad.
Largely, Delilah's genetic structure was taken from Demona. Only cosmetic elements were borrowed from Elisa. Of course Delilah does have some human DNA
...Other than the The[sic] Next Generation actors that fill out the main cast by lending their voices to main characters, fans have also got...Nichelle Nicols from The Original Series playing Diane Maza.
The character of "Elisa Chavez" was created before Salli was cast....After Salli was cast, we asked her what her ethnic background was [which was] African-American largely, but also Native American....Then we asked Salli if we could give photographs of her to our character designers. She said yes, and they adjusted our existing models to look a bit more like Salli. So her "look" was inspirational rather than, say, "traced".
This is just his latest appearance in a DC Comics adaptation, after voicing Micron on Batman Beyond
Hermes' nemesis Barbados Slim was also a DiMaggio credit
Another plotline never resolved is the one of LeBarbara's infidelity. Throughout the series, she's repeatedly seen running off into the arms of Hermes' greatest rival, Barbados Slim.
While he doesn't appear that often, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate is one impressive character, even if he looks anything but impressed in the above image...Mr. Tate is a universe-renowned scientist and a highly talented basketball player
The Professor and the leader of the Globetrotters, Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate, create this bad-ass gravity pump in order to move objects as large and as heavy as star
Page points out that Lizzo's vocal register more closely matches with LaChanze, the original voice of Terpsichore in the original movie.
It's pretty common knowledge that Skeeter was African-American. And I love that, because I did not consciously set out for that to be the case; I just thought he looked good blue.
Clark Kent does some investigative journalism to prove the innocence of Ernest Walker (Paul Colbert) who is scheduled to die for murder charges.
Former talk-show host Arsenio Hall lends his voice to "The Proud Family Movie" (8 p.m., Disney) as both the mad scientist, Dr. Carver, and aging soul singer Uncle Bobby. R&B artist Omarion guest-stars as hip-hop sensation Fifteen Cent in this movie-length expansion of Disney's "The Proud Family" series.
When Foxxy Love (Cree Summer, "Rugrats"), a mystery-solving musician, hears her, she takes exception to the princess 's comments and the two come to blows
Waller...has had many iterations in different media played by various actors, including CCH Pounder in Justice League Unlimited
she is the voice of Abbey on Disney's animated series "The Replacements."
Danny Carmel is a British-American actor best known for his role as Tag Anaton...[in] Prisoner Zero.
featured voice work...Sassy Harriet Bree & Councilwoman Camila In RWBY...Speaking of strong, female anime characters with a competitive edge...you can get the opportunity also to meet the voice behind RWBY's Harriet Bree.
She also voiced Brenda in Smallfoot and Melanie in the recently launched Netflix movie Fe@rless.
a promotional image shared to the official RWBY Twitter account on Oct. 29 also confirms Dr. Pietro Polendina (Dave Fennoy) and Maria Calavera (Melissa Sternenberg) for Volume 8.
Did I mention that other recurring cast members include Lewis Black as "Mr. E" and Vivica A. Fox as the Foxy Brown-esque, Angel Dynamite? Or that every single episode has Patrick Warburton as the hapless sheriff of Crystal Cove? I could go on and on…
Cassidy Williams, aka Angel Dynamite, is an original character from Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. Working as a radio host in their hometown, Angel is eventually revealed to be Cassidy Williams, a member of another mystery-solving gang that worked in Crystal Cove before Mystery Inc. was formed.
Tituss Burgess plays Glenn in the movie.
Gorgeous G has just finished giving a haircut when Crybaby Clown shows up to the salon causing more trouble.
Zeno Robinson rounds out the cast of Black voice actors, taking on the role of Prince Kelby
We also have more of the deliciously extremist human militant Colonel Kubritz (a hammy Uzo Aduba) factoring into the proceedings...a kids' show that acknowledges that racism exists...[but] has...a megalomaniacal black woman being viciously intolerant of "invaders"
Plus, I don't think we can overstate the importance of an anime with a majority POC cast, created and directed by an esteemed black animator. LeSean Thomas has a lot to be proud of.
Zeno Robinson plays Onyankopon, an Anti-Marleyan Volunteer that befriended the Survey Corps and helped them out in many ways. He has also played Goh in Pokémon Journeys: The Series, Hawks and Deidoro Sakaki in My Hero Academia, Genya Shinazugawa in Demon Slayer, Ogun in Fire Force, and Superalloy Darkshine in One Punch Man.
Penny Johnson Jerald voices Amanda Waller's character in the direct-to-video animated film Justice League: Gods and Monsters.
Tierny who showed her compelling evidence that the promises Jarek Yeager had been making all had been lies...Breaking into an impression of actor Scott Lawrence, who portrayed Jarek Yeager
Forthcoming, Shahidi will...voice a character in Netflix's animated film, My Father's Dragon.
From film to anime, animation & AAA video games, Mara's work has been featured in popular titles as the voice of...Shoola (Arcane)...Lyssa Drak & Banth Dar (Green Lantern: Beware My Power), Helena (Pluto) and many more.
Yeah. It's just very cool to have a character like Lunella, because in the media you don't often see girls, particularly Black girls, in science and technology.
Moreover, as seen in What If...? episode 6, Killmonger was truly irredeemable.
The most visible and recurring element introduced in the Survivor trilogy that returns in The Legend of Lara Croft is her companion and close friend Jonah Maiava, with Earl Baylon reprising his fan-favorite role for the series. Jonah isn't the only ally Lara has on this particular adventure
Wamester and writers Ernie Altbacker and John Semper seem to assume viewers have a knowledge of DC characters that extends well beyond the current DC animated film continuity, introducing...Vixen (Keesha Sharp)
Keesha Sharp as Vixen
This began in the 1800s, when Papa Midnite -- born Linton Midnite -- was taught these dark arts in his home country of Jamaica.
Creature Commandos will kick off with Amanda Waller (once again played by Viola Davis)
Fans also saw a sneak peek at Yara Shahidi's character Kendra Wilson, who is described as a "brilliant engineer behind the designs of some of the pup's newest gadgets and gear."
The A.V. Club sat down with other cast standouts, including Riki Lindhome, Joy Osmanski, and Yassir Lester, who play Kimberly and Jing Harris, and social media savvy teen Yangzi, respectively