Mexican actress Dolores del Río is considered the first Latin American woman to become a major film star, with a career that lasted from the 1920s Hollywood silent films into the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the ‘40s and ‘50s and later expanding into television and theater.
Actress, singer and dancer Nichelle Nichols is best known for her work as Lt. Uhura in the original Star Trek series, six subsequent films and Star Trek: The Animated Series.
Seattle-born actress Frances Farmer, a rising star in the 1930s, is remembered today more for her unfortunate life story than for her once promising career.
Mexican novelist and poet
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Oscar-winning American actor
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.
American actress best remembered as the “Wicked Witch of the West” in the film classic The Wizard of Oz
Aerial dancer and choreographer and filmmaker