Harald Krichel · CC BY-SA 4.0

Jurnee Smollett announced herself as a child actress in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou, a performance that won a Critics' Choice award before she was a teenager. She built a substantial adult career around it -- Friday Night Lights, the period drama Underground, and an Emmy-nominated lead role in Lovecraft Country -- while also taking a supporting turn as Black Canary in the studio blockbuster Birds of Prey.