Laurence John Fishburne III is an American actor of screen and stage, as well as a playwright, director, and producer. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It. He became the first African American to portray Othello in a motion picture by a major studio when he appeared in Oliver Parker's 1995 film adaption of the Shakespearean play. (Wikipedia)

Credits include: The Notebook, The Great Escape, Maverick, Space Cowboys and Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Ruby Dee (born October 27, 1924) is an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist. She is perhaps best known for co-starring in the film A Raisin in the Sun (1961) and the film American Gangster (2007) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has won a Grammy, Emmy, Obie, Drama Desk, SAG and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Arts, among others awards...(wikipedia)

Credits include: Beauty and the Beast, Uneasy Lies the Crown, The Sky's on Fire, Decoration Day and Season of Change

Credits include: The Devil's Advocate, Women Talking, Rose Red, The Woman in Red and The Lonely Guy

Credits include: Night at the Museum, Demolition Man, The Bodyguard, Trading Places and The Hudsucker Proxy

Credits include: The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?, Decoration Day, Chrome Soldiers and Shadow of a Doubt