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Brenda Sykes

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Actress

The Resume

    (June 25, 1949- )
    Starred in 'Getting Straight (1970),' 'The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970),' 'The Baby Maker (1970),' 'Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971),' 'Skin Game (1971),' 'Honky (1971),' 'Black Gunn (1972),' 'Cleopatra Jones (1973),' 'Mandingo (1975),' 'Executive Suite (1976),' 'Drum (1976)'
    Portrayed Jennifer Mackenzie on 'Ozzie Girls'

Why she might be annoying:

    She appeared on 'The Dating Game' (1969).
    She was forever typecast as the 'sweet and sexy black chick.'
    She gave up her film career to get married.
    She appeared in 1970s blaxploitation films and 'plantation epics' such as 'Mandingo.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She appeared nude in many film roles.
    She attended UCLA.
    After rejecting Cleveland Brown star Jim Brown for five years she briefly dated him.
    She wed spoken word artist Gil Scott-Heron.
    She appeared in one of TV's first interracial romances on the prime-time soap 'Executive Suite.'

Credit: Xer and BC


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 12 Votes: 41.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 84 Votes: 51.19% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 20.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 28 Votes: 60.71% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 30 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 88 Votes: 60.23% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 122 Votes: 58.20% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 152 Votes: 53.95% Annoying