Joan Chong Chen aka Chen Chong

Joan Chen's first genre work was guest starring in numerous tv series during the late 1980s.
She created a buzz among fanboys (and fangirls) for her physically-grueling performance in The Blood of Heroes, and then hit the big-time as the mysterious Josie Packard in Twin Peaks.
Unfortunately, this resulted in her becoming typecast as an "enigmatic exotic beauty".

Feeling her acting choices were becoming limited, Joan turned to other aspects of filmmaking, resulting in her first project as director and co-writer, Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl!
Critical acclaim and numerous awards have been showered on the film itself and her work on it.
She continues to act, direct and produce.
Joan made a return to genre with appearances on Fringe and the most recent version of Journey to the West.

Trivia: A rock band named itself Xiu Xiu in honor of the awrd-winning film!

Genre appearances include...
Fringe "Immortality"
Journey to the West [2010] (Guan Yin)
Avatar [2004] aka Cyber Wars aka Matrix Hunter (Madame Org)
Purple Storm (Shirley Chen)
Outer Limits [1998] "Phobos Rising"
Judge Dredd (Ilsa Hayden)
The Hunted (Kirina)
On Deadly Ground (Masu)
Tales from the Crypt "Food for Thought"
Steel Justice (Nicole Loa)
Nightmare Cafe "Pilot"
Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Jocelyn Packard aka Josie)
Wedlock aka DeadLock (Noelle)
The Blood of Heroes aka Salute of the Jugger (Kidda)
The Night Stalker aka The Man Who Could Not Be Killed (Mai Wing)
WiseGuy "All or Nothing"
MacGyver "Golden Triangle"
Miami Vice "Golden Triangle"
Note: the two "Golden Triangle" episodes are not related.
Joan plays different characters in each.
Knight Rider "Knight of the Drones"
Matt Houston "Target: Miss World"

Check out...
Joan Chen Picture Galleries (FanSite)
Joan Chen Pictures (FanSite)

Ayesha Dharker

An amazingly-versatile actress, equally at home doing comedy like Outsourced, drama like City of Joy, or genre / action.
There's not much out there about her personal life.
Apparently, Ayesha lets her growing body of work speak for itself. No complaints there! I've enjoyed her in everything I've seen her in, and look forward to her next appearance, genre or not.
She's currently starring in the period-piece (1950s) BBC-TV series The Indian Doctor, playing the title character's wife, Kamini Sharma.

Genre appearances include...

War Within aka Red Alert: the War Within (Radhakka)

Doctor Who"Planet of the Ood"

Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones(Queen Jamillia)
Waking the Dead"Subterraneans"
Arabian Nights[2000] (Coral Lips)
Terrorist aka Theeveravaathi (Malli)
Manika, une vie plus tard(Manika Kallatil)

Check out...
She doesn't have an official page, nor are there any fan pages I could find!
Interview with the Times of India

Whitney Elizabeth Houston (Brown) 1963-2012

 Genre appearances included...

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (Fairy Godmother / performer: "Prologue", "Impossible", "It's Possible", "Finale Ultimo", "There's Music in You")
The Preacher's Wife (Julia Biggs)
The BodyGuard (Rachel Marron / performer: "Queen of the Night")

 Note: The BodyGuard is not really genre, but it's use of footage from the classic 1926 film Metropolis as well as the Maria-Robotrix-influenced costume prominently featured in the video for "Queen of the Night" and the film itself make it worthy, IMHO, of inclusion.

Check out...
Whitney's Official WebSite
A cool FanSite

Other actresses to play Fairy Godmother in Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella include Celeste Holm [1965] and Edie Adams [1957]

Other actresses to play Julia Biggs include...
Actually, in the previous version of this film, The Bishop's Wife [1947], the character was named Julia Brougham and played by Loretta Young.

3-D SHEENA QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE "Sargasso of Lost Safaris"

Get out the red/blue 3-D glasses (red on the left, blue on the right)...

Cover art for the 1985 reprint by the late, great, Dave Stevens

 ...cause it's 3-D Week at all the RetroBlogs™!

This tale, penciled by Robert Webb and Inked by Ann Brewster for Jumbo Comics #87 (1953), was adapted from 2-D to 3-D for 3-D Sheena Queen of the Jungle #1 (1953) during the 1950s 3-D craze and reprinted (with corrected 3-D effects by Ray Zone) in 1985 (which is the version we're presenting here).

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FRANCES CRAIG "Routine Assignment"

Though the opening caption refers to an unpublished story...

...this never-reprinted tale from Eagle Comics #2 (1945) could've been the beginning of a kool ongoing strip!

Regrettably, this was the last issue of Eagle Comics, and feisty aviatrix Frances Craig never appeared anywhere, ever again.

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