Exclusive: Ricco Ross on playing Horace Bellarie on Tyler Perry's Beauty In Black
Currently streaming on Netflix are Part 1 and Part 2 from Season One of Tyler Perry's Beauty In Black, where Perry serves as the writer, director, and producer
The cast features Taylor Polidore Williams as Kimmie, Amber Reign Smith as Rain, Crystle Stewart as Mallory, Ricco Ross as Horace, Debbi Morgan as Olivia, Richard Lawson as Norman, Steven G. Norfleet as Charles, Julian Horton as Roy, Terrell Carter as Varney, Shannon Wallace as Calvin, Bryan Tanaka as Officer Alex, Joy Rovaris as Gillian, Xavier Smalls as Angel, Charles Malik Whitfield as Jules, Tamera “Tee” Kissen as Body, Ursula O. Robinson as Delinda, Ashley Versher as Lena, George Middlebrook as Officer Trackson.
Part 1: Tyler Perry’s Beauty in Black follows two women leading very different lives. While Kimmie is struggling to make a living after her mother kicked her out, and Mallory is running a successful business, they find themselves entangled in each other’s lives.
Part 2: The ruthless, backstabbing family behind a beauty brand — and an underground trafficking ring — will face a reckoning. Kimmie, the once-unassuming sex worker in their employ, becomes an unstoppable force of vengeance on a mission to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Ross plays Horace Bellarie, father of Roy and Charles, ex-husband to Olivia and owner to the cosmetic empire Beauty In Black.
Best known for his portrayal of private Frost in the 1986 science fiction action film Aliens opposite Sigourney Weaver, Ricco Ross has done a bounty of work on the big and small screens; including recurring on Starz’s P-Valley.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Ricco Ross on playing Horace Bellarie on Tyler Perry's Beauty In Black.