As “Agent J” in “Men in Black” Smith fought against alien invaders decked in a crisp black suit.
As no-nonsense secret agent Foxxy Cleopatra in “Goldmember” Beyonce was shagadelic ladies man Austin Power’s sexy sidekick.
Using everything from hair picks to platform shoes, “Undercover Brother,” fought his hardest to stop “The Man” from stopping the spread of Black culture.
In “Undercovers,” one of fall 2010 season’s most-anticipated dramas, Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star as a husband-and-wife team lured back into the spy game and manage to keep their marriage spicy. Can you say sexpionage?
Before Bill Cosby became a TV fixture as Cliff Huxtable he was best known for the TV show “I Spy” (1965). As secret-agent Kelly Robinson, Cosby was the first African-American actor in a lead television role.
In “I Spy” (2002), Murphy reworked Bill Cosby’s character, Kelly Robinson, into a tough talking boxing champion with a secret agenda.
Dangerous curves: In “Die Another Day” (2006) Berry sizzled as Giancita “Jinx” Johnson, a secret agent who proves she’s as tough as James Bond.
She wasn’t your typical spy but in “Jumping Jack Flash” (1986), Teresa Doolittle (Goldberg) was up to the task when she thrust into the spy game by a British intelligence officer.
As agent “H” in “Unthinkable” (2010), Jackson did anything (even torture prisoners)to get intelligence information.
As CIA director William Cabot in “The Sum of All Fear” (2002) Freeman is involved in a top-secret wargame against Russia.
Did he do it? In “Traitors” (2008) Cheadle plays a special-ops Muslim-American sergeant who may or may not have assisted Muslim terrorists.
Wright plays CIA operative Felix Leiter in “Casino Royale” (2006), a quiet man with a top-secret agenda assisting James Bond.
Ealy played an agent dealing with the aftermath of a catastrophic global event on ABC’s short-lived series, “FlashForward” (2009-2010).
Forced to work as a double agent in order to defend his honor, Fishburne was deep in trenches of the spying games in “Bad Company” (1995).
