Fantastic Femmes--Maria Conchita Alonzo

Born in Cuba, raised in Venezuela, Maria Conchita Alonso won several beauty pageants including Miss Teenager of the World and Miss Venezuela.
She became a popular actress in Latin America, performing in ten telenovelas.
In 1982, she emigrated to the US, where she's done movies, tv, and several albums in both English and Spanish!
Trivia:
Turned down the role of Lupe Lamora in the Eon James Bond 007 film License to Kill! (Role went to Talisa Soto)
Speaks four languages fluently--English, Spanish, French, and Italian.
Became a naturalized American citizen in 2005!

Genre appearances include...
Dark Moon Rising (Sam)
Tranced (Libra)
Red Canvas (Maria Sanchez)
Stan Lee's Condor (Maria Valdez)
CSI: Miami "Blood Moon"
Birth of Babylon aka Return to Babylon aka Silent Madness (Lupe Velez)
The Dead One (Sister Rosa)
KingPin (Ariela)
Robbery Homicide Division "A Life of it's Own"
Code Conspiracy (Rachel)
Touched by an Angel "Hearts"
Outer Limits [1998] "Vaccine"
BlackHeart (Annette)
FX the Series (Elena Serrano) McBain (Christina)
Predator 2 (Leona Cantrell)
Vampire's Kiss (Alva Restrepo)
Running Man (Amber Mendez)
Extreme Prejudice (Sarita Cisneros)
Blood Ties (Caterina Ammirati)
Fear City (Silver)
Knight Rider "Forget Me Knot"
Fantasy Island "Beautiful Skeptic / Lost Platoon"

Check out...
Her Official WebSite

Star Trek--The Second Coming!

The trend of "rebooting" already-existing sci-fi / fantasy franchises continues...
Some have been successful (Smallville, Battlestar Galactica, Batman, James Bond).
Some have been abject failures (Flash Gordon).
Some never got past the tv pilot stages (Lone Ranger, Lost in Space, Time Tunnel.)
(Note: Neither Doctor Who nor Superman Returns are reboots!
Dr Who is a continuation of the old series and Superman Returns was a sequel to Superman II, ignoring III & IV, and probably Supergirl.)
Jury's out on Star Trek, until I see it...
Interesting to note Nyota Uhura is given the third slot normally-allocated to McCoy. Hopefully, she'll have more to do than just "opening hailing frequencies"...
(We'll be covering Nyota Uhuras past and present in upcoming Fantastic Femmes entries!)

Fantastic Femmes--Naomie Harris

Note: this page has been updated with NEW info HERE!

Pirates of Somalia--now on Dark Shirts!

Keeping on the cutting edge of current events, Atomic Kommie Comics™ presents a trio of designs NOW ON DARK SHIRTS commemorating the defeat of the Somalian pirates who learned...
YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE U.S!
Pirates? Bring 'Em On!
Pirates Asked for It!
Threaten Americans? DON'T!

Fantastic Femmes--Joan Severance

Yet another model turned actress, Joan managed to go from doing high-profile national advertising campaigns to a critically-acclaimed recurring role as a villainess on the WiseGuy tv series within six months after changing careers!
Her credits since are mostly genre roles, including some rather physically-demanding stunt work!
(She's also appeared sans garb in a number of films, both genre and non-genre...)
Joan's also moved behind the camera, handling co-producing duties on several of the films she's appeared in!

Genre appearances include...
Lost Gold of Khan (Cora)
Wicked, Wicked Games (Anna Whitman)
Born (Dr. Sammael)
CSI: Miami "Money Plane"
She Spies "Love Kills"
Mystery Woman (Mary Stenning)
Cause of Death (Angela Carter)
Last Seduction II (Bridget Gregory)
Black Scorpion / Black Scorpion II: AfterShock (Black Scorpion aka Darcy Walker)
Profiler (Christine Logan)
In Dark Places (Chapelle)
Matter of Trust aka Surgeon (Theresa Marsh)
Criminal Passion aka Angel of Desire (Melanie Hudson)
Lake Consequence (Irene)
HBO's Tales from the Crypt "New Arrival"
Illicit Behavior aka Criminal Intent (Melissa Yarnell)
Bird on a Wire (Rachel Varney)
Write to Kill (Belle Washburn)
RuneStone (Marla Stewart)
HitchHiker "My Enemy"
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Eve)
Max Headroom "Neurostim"
WiseGuy (Susan Profitt)
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer "Lady Killer"
Lethal Weapon (Girl in Black Playsuit)

The only dedicated site I could find for Joan features, shall we say, age-inappropriate photos, so I won't list it here. Of course, if you were to e-mail me... ;-)

Other actresses to play Bridget Gregory include...
Linda Fiorentino in Last Seduction
Other actresses to play Black Scorpion aka Darcy Walker include...
Michelle Lintel (Adult Darcy) and Elizabeth Huett (Young Darcy) in Roger Corman's Black Scorpion
Ashley Peldon as Young Darcy in Black Scorpion