Film Archives - Page 6 of 29

Esther Mentz

South African opera singer and film actor

Sue Williamson

English-South African artist and activist

Thelma Gutsche

South African filmmaker and film scholar

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.

Nichelle Nichols

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.

Frances Farmer

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.

Carmen Báez

Mexican novelist and poet

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.

Holly Hunter

Oscar-winning American actor

Adela Fernández

Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.