Fantastic Femmes--Lynn Whitfield

Best known for her Emmy-winning portrayal of the legendary Josephine Baker, Lynn's done a little of everything, from big-budget blockbusters to b-movies, from classic literature adaptations to genre, always giving the role everything she's got, never simply "phoning it in" for a quick paycheck!
She's always fun to watch...

Genre appearances include...
FlashForward (Anastasia Markham)
Pure Shooter (Artelia Jones aka Art)
Without a Trace (Paula Van Doren)
Shark "Pilot"
Lost in Oz (Bellaridere)
Touched by an Angel "Amazing Grace"
Dangerous Evidence: the Lori Jackson Story (Lori Jackson)
Eve's Bayou (Roz Batiste)
Cosby Mysteries (Barbara Lorenz)
State of Emergency (Dehlia Johnson)
Taking the Heat (Off. Carolyn Hunter)
Equal Justice (Maggie Mayfield)
Jaws: the Revenge (Lousia)
Matlock (Angela Page)
Dead Aim (Sheila Freeman)
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI (Johnnie Mae Gibson)
Miami Vice "Bought and Paid for"
Cagney & Lacey (Eleanor Taggart)
Hill Street Blues (Jill Thomas)

I couldn't find any official or fan pages for the lovely lady... ;-(

Fantastic Femmes--Olga Kurylenko

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Another model-turned-genre actress, Olga had extensive dance training during her childhood and teen years, which enables her to do convincing action sequences.

Trivia:

Olga's tri-lingual; Russian, French, and English.

While her created-for-the-film character, Camille Montes Rivera, appears in the video game version of Quantum of Solace, curiously, the characters she plays in films-based-on-video games HitMan and Max Payne didn't exist in the original games!

Genre appearances include...

Kirot (Galia)

Centurion (Etain)

Tyranny (Mina Harud)

Quantum of Solace [22nd Eon James Bond film] /
Quantum of Solace the Video Game (Camille Montes Rivera)

Max Payne (Natasha Sax)

HitMan (Nika Boronina)

Suspectes aka Secrets (Eva Pirès)

Serpent aka Snake (Sofia)

Paris, je t'aime aka Paris, I Love You

"Quartier de la Madeleine" (Vampire)

Check out...

Olga Kurylenko OnLine (FanSite)

Olga Kurylenko Photos (FanSite)

Costume Comparison--Sonia Rolland IS Lea Parker

Lea Parker was a French tv & graphic novel series about a kick-ass female special agent rather like Sydney Bristow on Alias.
Ran two years from 2004-06 and starred Sonia Rolland (a former Miss France, often called "the French Halle Berry") as Lea. AFAIK, it's never been shown in America, nor have I been able to find copies of the graphic novels.
The image above is the cover of the first graphic novel, which offers a convenient costume comparison.
(I'm not sure which came first, the books or tv series, nor if the books were script adaptations / source material or original / different stories about the character.)
BTW, The back cover photo is flopped. You can tell from the part in her hair. The correct "look" for the right-handed character is below...
You'll also note they gave her a Wolverine-ish hairstyle unlike the normal look of the actress.
If anyone has any additional info, or would like to sell copies of the books or dvds (I have a multi-region player), let me know... ;-)

Supermen! & Lost Heroes: the PERFECT present!

We at Atomic Kommie Comics™ are ecstatic that some of the "lost" classics of the Golden Age of Comics are being made available to a graphic novel-hungry audience in the magnificent new tome SUPERMEN! The First Wave of Comic Book Heroes! Fantagraphics has done absolutely spectacular work with previous 1930s-40s reprint albums and follows thru here equally well with a handsome volume worthy of any fan's library!)
We believe that Supermen! would make a great graduation or birthday gift for the graphic story aficionado in your life, especially when combined with one of the Golden Age-themed goodies from our Lost Heroes of the Golden Age of Comics™ collection, which features some of the exhibited heroes including...
Blue Bolt, The Claw, The Clock, DareDevil, The Face, The Flame, Marvelo, Silver Streak, SkyMan, and Sub Zero, in some cases, using the same cover art, on t-shirts, mugs, messenger bags, and other assorted items
Note: Marvelo & Sub Zero are in the Solo Heroes section, since we only have one cover for each character (at present)

As they'd say back in the 1940s: "Gosh, they'd make a swell present for a comics-loving guy or gal!"

Fantastic Femmes--Kelly Hu

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