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For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSir Lenny Henry, Stormzy and Michaela Coel are among those to have been named on a list of the UK’s most influential black people.The Powerlist, which has been published annually since 2007, identifies the UK’s most powerful people of African, African Caribbean and African American heritage.The 2023 list includes actors Sir Lenny, 64, Coel, 35 and Idris Elba, 50, as well as…

In the world of musicians-turned-actors, Lenny Kravitz probably has one of the most unique resumes out there. Claiming roles in projects like Precious and The Hunger Games, as well a spot in the 2023 new movie releases with Shotgun Wedding, the man's shown he can do a lot on screen. Apparently Kravitz has taken that very fact to heart, as he’s doubled down on trying to become a part of the Magic Mike franchise alongside Channing Tatum.You can blame Instagram for this chain of events, as the elder Kravitz laid down a…

When the comic and actor Lenny Henry attended the first writers’ meeting for his early-1980s sketch series Three of a Kind, he and his co-stars, David Copperfield and Tracey Ullman, were asked to speak about their vision for the show. Copperfield stood up and said he wanted it to be as funny as possible. Ullman said she didn’t want to play a sexy secretary, a nagging wife or any other female stereotypes that were a staple of the era. Henry, who had appeared on The Black and White Minstrel Show in the 70s, stated that he…

Lenny Henry has always received more than his fair share of criticism, from racists, whose opinion can be discounted, but also from liberal activist types decrying the regressive buffoonery of his early work and comedy fans who simply find him unfunny. In his uneven second autobiography, following Who Am I, Again? which covered his early life up to 1980, Henry accepts most of this judgment.“I failed upwards,” he writes in a startling epilogue, citing the Beckett fragment on creative futility. He acknowledges that it took…

Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Lenny Van Dohlen, best remembered for his role as the orchid-loving and agoraphobic Harold Smith on David Lynch’s original Twin Peaks television series, has died at age 63, as confirmed by his agent. Lenny Von Dohlen has passed away. We lose a wonderful artist. Forever in our memory. Forever in our hearts. Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/052BNrQbCT— Black Lodge Cult (@BlackLCult) July 8, 2022 According to Variety, Von Dohlen’s sister, Catherine Von Dohlen, announced…

Sir Lenny Henry has said he is “always surprised” by the lack of black and brown people at Glastonbury, as he called for better representation of ethnic minorities in all facets of British society.The actor and entertainer, whose new BBC documentary exploring identity and belonging is out later this month, said festivals were an area of British life where proper integration was still missing.“It’s interesting to watch Glastonbury and look at the audience and not see any black people there,” Henry said in an interview with…