In reply to Moore Kenya.

I would say more or less a Nia Long is Vivica's contemporary. Vivica is just as talented as Halle but she never got to her level. Now had she stayed away from 50 and chose better projects she may have got there. Halle was making 15M a movie at the peak of her career. Halle's only true contemporary was Queen Latifah...they were the only two females black actors headlining films and getting major checks (white people money). Viola and Angela Bassett's peak came later in their careers (Angela's work in the last 10 years has been pretty major compared to the parts in earlier parts of her career) and at a time when Queen and Halle were past their peak so I didn't add them to the mix.