Fantastic Femmes--Karina Lombard

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Born in Tahiti, Karina moved to Europe where she became fluent Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German along with extensive training in performiong arts while attending private schools.
After turning 18, she relocated to New York where she began modeling, dancing and acting, on both stage and screen.
Note: Since she's multi-lingual, Karina has appeared in numerous productions in Italy and France that have not aired in the US. (Our loss!)
Like several other Fantastic Femmes including Jennifer Beals, and Pam Grier, Karina has been a regular on the award-winning cable series The L Word.
Currently, she's appearing on the acclaimed cable series Rescue Me. as well as developing a project (which she's writing the music and lyrics for) with Cirque de Soleil.

Genre appearances include...
The 4400 (Alana Mareva)
Suspectes aka Secrets (Claude Perkins)
CSI "A La Cart"
Guardian (Ketherine Kross)
Deception (Margareth)
Murder at the Cannes Film Festival (Inspector Renee Reno)
Seventh Scroll (Royan)
Violent Earth (Anna Temaru)
Last Man Standing (Felina)

Kull the Conqueror (Zareta)

Check out...
Karina's MySpace Page
Karina World (FanSite)
Karina-Lombard.com (FanSite)
KarinaLombard.com (FanSite)

Fantastic Femmes--Jennifer Beals

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Her first major role (Alex in FlashDance) made Jennifer Beals a star!
After more than 50 roles in films and tv, she's again become a household name due to her performance as Bette in The L Word!
In between, Jennifer's done everything from low-budget indies to big-budget studio projects, including lots of genre work.
Trivia:
Turned down the role of Dana Scully in X-Files. after being recommended by fellow Yale classmate David Duchovny!
Turned down the role of Apollonia in Purple Rain.

Genre appearances include...
Book of Eli (Claudia)
Troubled Waters (Jennifer Beck)
Law & Order "Charity Case"
Grudge 2 [2006] (Trish Kimble)
Out of Line (Jenny Capitanas)
Big House aka Being Brewster (Lorraine Brewster)
Turbulence II: Fear of Flying (Jessica)
The Hunger [1999] "...and She Laughed"
Spree (Xinia Kelly)
Prophecy II (Valerie Rosales)
Devil in a Blue Dress (Daphne Monet)
Outer Limits [1997] "Bodies of Evidence"
Dead on Sight (Rebecca Darcy)
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (Virginia)
Dr M aka Club Extinction (Sonja Vogler)
Gamble (Lady Olivia Candioni)
Vampire's Kiss (Rachel)
Shelly Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre "Cinderella"
The Bride (Eva)

Check out...
Jennifer-Beals.us (FanSite)Other actresses to play Eva aka Bride of the Frankenstein Monster aka Prima aka Monster's Mate include...
Helena Bonham Carter in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Jane Seymour in Frankenstein: the True Story
Dalila de Lazzaro in Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein
Susan Denberg in Frankenstein Created Woman
Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein
Other actresses to play Cinderella include...
There are over 50 listed. If you wanna know, Google 'em.

Fantastic Femmes--Pam Grier

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From her first featured role in The Big Doll House, Pam Grier was THE female action star of the 1970s, dominating the blaxplotation genre along with appearances in several horror flix.
Honing her acting skills, she moved to drama and comedy film & tv work, including multi-episode arcs on Crime Story and Miami Vice and as a regular on Linc's.
She's a cancer survivor, and a regular on The L Word.
And one of my favorite actresses of all time! ;-)

Genre credits include...
Smallville (Amanda Waller)
Back in the Day (Mrs. Cooper)
Justice League "A Knight of Shadows" (My'ria'h)
Night Visions "Switch"
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Flura Nash aka Mom)
Feast of All Saints (Suzette Lermontant)
Bones (Pearl)
Strange Frequency
Ghosts of Mars (Commander Helena Braddock)
Pinky & the Brain "Inherit the Wheeze"
Escape from LA (Hershe Las Palmas)
Bill & Ted"s Bogus Journey (Ms Wardroe)
Class of 1999 (Ms Connors)
Mars Attacks! (Louise Williams)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Dust Witch)
Monsters "Hostile Takeover"
Friday Foster (Friday Foster)
Scream, Blacula, Scream! (Lisa)
Twilight People (Ayesa, the Panther Woman)

Other actresses to play Amanda Waller include...
Angela Bassett in Green Lantern.
CCH Pounder in Justice League Unlimited / Batman Beyond and Superman-Batman: Public Enemies