Purple Rain 1984

Purple Rain (1984) has 6 Black credited characters out of 23.

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The Van Lathan Ratio · 26%

26% of the credited cast.

Directed by Albert Magnoli · 111 min

On The Rewatchables

Every credited role on TMDB, in billing order. Uncredited roles are left out. marks actors who publicly identify as Black. How actors are tagged.

#	Actor	Character	Black
1	Prince	The Kid	●Counted as Black
2	Apollonia Kotero	Apollonia
3	Morris Day	Morris	●Counted as Black
4	Jerome Benton	Jerome	●Counted as Black
5	Olga Karlatos	Mother
6	Clarence Williams III	Father	●Counted as Black
7	Billy Sparks	Billy
8	Wendy Melvoin	Wendy
9	Lisa Coleman	Lisa
10	Bobby Z	Bobby
11	Dr. Fink	Matt
12	Brown Mark	Mark	●Counted as Black
13	Jill Jones	Jill
14	Susan Moonsie	Susan
15	Brenda Bennett	Brenda
16	Sandra Claire Gershman	Beautiful Babe
17	Alan Leeds	Stage Hand
18	Garry Johnson	"Jellybean" Johnson - The Time
19	Jesse Johnson	Jesse Johnson - The Time	●Counted as Black
20	Marc Cardenas	Mark Cardenas - The Time
21	Gerald E. Hubbard Jr.	Jerry Hubbard - The Time
22	Paul Peterson	Paul Peterson - The Time
23	Israel Gordon	Taste M.C.

We looked closely at whether to count this actor and decided not to. Here's why.

Susan Moonsie: Born in Trinidad and Tobago. We couldn't find anywhere she has described how she identifies, so we didn't count her.