Phylicia Rashad

Phylicia Rashad was famously known as Clair Huxtable on The Cosby Show, but her infamous contribution to the Black community got her credits as The Mother of the Black Community. The NAACP Image Awards honored her this name in 2010. The 72-year-old actress was also the first Black actress who won the Tony Award for Best Actress Play, thanks to her role in the A Raisin in the Sun revival.

Phylicia won another NAACP award for reprising her role in the play in its TV adaptation in 2008. The stage director has had a prolific career since she started in the early ’70s. She began making a name in the Broadway world, doing In the Woods and Jelly’s Last Jam, and managed to transcend in mainstream media. Some of the TV and movie projects that Phylicia has made are For Colored Girls, Good Deeds, Creed movie series, and more.