List of entertainers who performed in blackface

A–C

• Roy Acuff, country music singer, performed in blackface in 1930s-40s traveling medicine shows
• Julie Andrews, in the 1964 film Mary Poppins
• Fred Armisen, impersonating U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008 and 2009
• Louis Armstrong, as Zulu King during 1949's Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Clarence Ashley, 1910s-1940s singer and blackface comedian in traveling medicine shows
• Ant and Dec, in old Saturday Night Takeway sketches
• Fred Astaire, in Swing Time and in Easter Parade
• Gene Autry
• Dan Aykroyd, in Trading Places
• David Baddiel, while portraying Jason Lee on a 1995 episode of Fantasy Football League
• Marcus "Buff" Bagwell, while performing for World Championship Wrestling
• Fay Bainter, as Topsy in a 1933 production of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Milt G. Barlow, 19th-century American minstrel
• Ethel Barrymore, in the 1930 play Scarlet Sister Mary
• Billy Barty, in Roman Scandals and Rabbit Test
• Sergei Bondarchuk, in Othello
• John Boulter, lead singer of the long-running Black and White Minstrel Show on the BBC
• Zach Braff, in the Scrubs episodes "My Friend the Doctor" and "My Chopped Liver"
• Frank Brower, 1840s-1860s minstrel performer
• Bugs Bunny, in the 1942 cartoon Fresh Hare
• George Burns
• Butterbeans and Susie
• Eddie Cantor, 1912-1927 performances in vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies
• Dave Chappelle in a 2006 episode of Chappelle's Show
• George Christy, born George Harrington but became a star with Christy's Minstrels in the 1840s
• Charles Correll
• Bing Crosby, in Dream House, Mississippi, Road to Singapore, Holiday Inn, Dixie, and Here Come the Waves
• Billy Crystal, in the "Negro Leagues" skit on Saturday Night Live in 1984 and whenever impersonating Sammy Davis Jr., including at the 84th Academy Awards.

  D–G

• Ted Danson, at a 1993 Friars Club roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg
• Tommy Davidson in the 2000 film Bamboozled
• Sammy Davis, Jr. in Ocean's Eleven
• Shane Dawson, YouTuber, actor, and comedian
• Neil Diamond in The Jazz Singer
• Thomas Dilward, 1850s-1870s dwarf minstrel performer
• George Washington Dixon, 1820s-1830s stage performer
• Lew Dockstader, 1870s-1900s minstrel performer
• Roma Downey in an episode of the television series Touched By An Angel entitled “Black Like Monica”, the character is turned black to better empathize with a community dealing with racial tensions.
• Robert Downey Jr. in the 2008 film Tropic Thunder
• Jimmy Durante
• Jimmy Fallon, impersonating Chris Rock on Saturday Night Live
• Edwin Forrest
• Dai Francis, lead singer of the long-running Black and White Minstrel Show on the BBC
• George Givot, in the play The Constant Sinner
• Freeman Gosden
• Billy Gould
• Savion Glover in the 2000 film Bamboozled

  H–L

• Sam Hague
• Jon Hamm on an episode of 30 Rock
• Bob Height
• Charles Hicks
• Ernest Hogan
• C. Thomas Howell in the 1986 movie Soul Man
• George Jessel
• Al Jolson
• Louis Jordan
• Buster Keaton, in vaudeville in the short film Neighbors, possibly with satiric intent: he alternates in and out of blackface, receiving a very different reaction from a policeman; also in The Playhouse and College
• Billy Kersands, 1880s-1900s minstrel performer
• Jimmy Kimmel, impersonating Karl Malone and Oprah Winfrey on The Man Show
• Jane Krakowski twice on 30 Rock
• Wallace King, 1880s minstrel performer
• Francis Leon, 1870s-80s minstrel performer
• Eddie Leonard, 1890s-1930s minstrel performer, "last of the great minstrels"
• Peter Lorre, in the play Weisse Fracht
• Matt Lucas, multiple characters in Little Britain, Precious Little in Come Fly with Me''
• Sam Lucas, 1870s minstrel performer

  M–R

• Pigmeat Markham, performer in 1920s-1950s traveling shows, as well as The Ed Sullivan Show and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
• Mickey Mouse in the 1933 cartoon Mickey's Mellerdrammer
• Emmett Miller, an important influence on early country stars like Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills
• Flournoy E. Miller
• Irvin C. Miller
• Clayton McMichen
• Bill Monroe
• Moran and Mack
• Herbert Wassell Nadal
• Cornelius J. O'Brien
• Richard Pelham
• Thomas D. Rice
• Jimmie Rodgers
• Benny Rubin

  S–Z

• Ramblin' Tommy Scott
• Sarah Silverman
• Frank Sinatra, in the Major Bowes short The Big Minstrel and Ocean's Eleven
• Grace Slick, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Teen Set magazine
• Bessie Smith
• Hobart Smith
• Howard Stern in a series of 1991 skits as Clarence Thomas and in a 1993 New Year's Eve special
• Bert Swor
• Frank Tinney, in vaudeville and Broadway musical comedies
• Sophie Tucker
• Tracey Ullman, in a 1989 episode of The Tracey Ullman Show
• Ben Vereen, as a part of the 1981 inaugural celebrations for US President Ronald Reagan
• Vladimir Vysotsky, as Abram Gannibal in How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor
• David Walliams, minstrel character, Desiree Devere in Little Britain
• George Walker
• Billy Whitlock
• Gene Wilder in Silver Streak
• Barney Williams
• Bert Williams
• Hank Williams
• Bob Wills
• Tom Wilson