Beauty in Black cast and character guide: A look at the actors in the Tyler Perry drama

Beauty in Black is Tyler Perry's latest venture with Netflix under his creative partnership with the platform. Perry is best known for his experimental work, including Mea Culpa, A Madea Homecoming, and A Fall from Grace.

Beauty in Black follows the story of Kimmie and Mallory, who are two women from very different worlds. How will their life trajectories change when their worlds collide in the show? Part 1 was released on Netflix on October 24, 2024, and received positive reviews from the fans.

Here is a complete guide to the cast and characters of the show

Who is in the main cast of Beauty in Black?

Here is a guide to the main cast and the characters they play in Beauty in Black-

1. Taylor Polidore Williams As Kimmie

Cast of Beauty in Black (Image via Netflix)

Williams is best known for her role as Dallas Ali in the FX crime drama series Snowfall. Her other works include Black Lightning, Clara in the Nickelodeon cartoon It’s Pony (as a voice actor), and Camille in the supernatural drama series Wicked City.

Before bagging a lead role here, she also worked as a supporting character in Perry's Divorce in the Black. Taylor plays the character of Kimmie, who falls into a Magic City strip club as an exotic dancer after her mother kicks her out.

2. Crystle Stewart As Mallory

Coincidentally, one of Stewart's initial breakthrough roles as a real estate agent, Leslie Morris, was in Perry's dramedy series, For Better or Worse. Crystle has been a recurring actress in many of Perry's earlier projects, including Too Close to Home and Acrimony.

Juxtaposed with Kimmie is Stewart's character, Mallory, who is successful and wealthy. She runs her hair care business but struggles to keep her family together.

3. Ricco Ross As Horace

Ross' breakthrough role was in James Cameron’s sci-fi sequel, Aliens. He has also appeared as a supporting character in films like Fierce Creatures, a security guard in Mission: Impossible, and a Cuban in Death Wish 3.

His television credits include roles like Greg Dacosta in the British TV show Westbeach and the recurring role of Liftman Coneybear in Jeeves and Wooster Season 3.

He plays the role of Horace, a patron at the strip club where Kimmie works, and their chance encounter changes her life forever.

4. Debbi Morgan As Olivia

Morgan got her first break as Angie Baxter-Hubbard on the long-running ABC soap opera All My Children. For this role, she is also the first African-American to win a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Her other credits include Eve's Bayou, Charmed, and Power. She has also worked with Perry before on projects like Divorce in the Black and American Gangster Presents: Big 50—The Delrhonda Hood Story.

She plays the female lead, Olivia, alongside Kimmie and Mallory

5. Richard Lawson As Norman

Lawson's breakthrough role was Willis Daniels in the horror sequel Scream Blacula Scream. He is known for his characters in Poltergeist, Coming Home, Streets of Fire, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Marcus in Guess Who.

Lawson is the most experienced actor in the Beauty in Black cast and plays an important role in the series.