Carol Diahann Johnson

We knew her as Diahann Carroll...

...and she was a pioneer for representation in media of minority women.

But she cemented her fame for genre fans with her turn as the holographic singer Mermia, one of only two good items in the ill-fated Star Wars Holiday Special!

(The other was the animated segment introducing Boba Fett!)

Please Visit

Masterworks Broadway: Diahann Carroll

Diahann! (FanSite)

Genre appearances include...

Masked Saint (Miss Edna)

Legend of Tarzan (Queen La) [Voice]

Perry Mason Mystery: Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (Lydia Bishop)

Burke's Law "Who Killed the Beauty Queen?" (Grace Gibson)

The Court (Justice DeSett)

From the Dead of Night (Maggie)

Death Scream (Betty May)

Star Wars Holiday Special (Mermeia)

Split (Ellen "Wllie" Kennedy)

Peter Gunn "Sing a Song of Murder" (Dina Wright)

Man in the Moon (Herself)

Plus two autobiographies...

Diahann!

Legs are the Last to Go

Legs are the Last to Go (audiobook)

Michelle Yeoh aka Michelle Khan (Yang Zi Chong)

An absolutely magnificent woman!

Superb actress with an acting range from heavy drama to light comedy with equal aplomb, as you can see in her latest film, Crazy Rich Asians.
Has no actual martial arts training, but her extensive dance background enables her to perform fight choreography to perfection!
Has done her own fights and stunts whenever allowed.
Over 30 films and TV series, and I've seen every one (Even Owl and Dumbo!)

Genre credits include
Star Trek: Discovery (Emperor Georgiou / Captain Philippa Georgiou)
Guardians of the Galaxy:Vol 2 (Aleta Ogord)
Marco Polo (Lotus)
Strike Back (Mei Foster / Li-N)
Morgan (Dr Lui Chen)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [VG] (Yu Shu Lien)
Kung Fu Panda 2 (Soothsayer)
Reign of Assassins (Xi Yu aka Drizzle)
True Legend (Sister Yu)
Doraemon the New Record of Nobita: Spaceblazer (Tamako)
Babylon A.D. (Sister Rebekka)
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [3rd Mummy film] (Zi Juan)
SunShine (Corazon)
Tomorrow Never Dies [18th Eon James Bond film] (Wai Lin)
SilverHawk (Lulu Wong)
Heroic Trio [one of my favorite flicks] (Ching aka Invisible Woman)
Executioners [Heroic Trio II] (Ching)
Magnificent Warriors (Fok Ming-Ming)
SuperCop [Police Story III] / SuperCop 2 [Once a Cop] (Inspector Jessica Yang)
Wing Chun (Yim Wing Chun)
It's rumored she was offered the role of Seraph in the second and third Matrix movies, but turned it down. (The role went to a male actor)
Check out...
Michelle Yeoh Web Theatre (FanSite)

Note: The Invisible Woman in Heroic Trio is not the Marvel Comics character.
Nor is Wonder Woman (played by Anita Mui) the DC Comics character.

Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha

Does she like playing little sisters?
Gugu Mbatha-Raw first came to the attention of American genre audiences as Martha Jones' (fellow Femme Fantastique Freema Agyeman) younger sibling Tish on Doctor Who.
And, when JJ Abrams cast his series UnderCovers, Gugu auditioned for the role of Samantha Bloom's kid sister Lizzy!
Apparently, Abrams thought "Kid sister? The hell with that! She's the LEAD!"
Wise man, that JJ!
She was the best thing about the show!  ;-)
Besides doing a lot of genre tv and movies (see below), this graduate of the acclaimed Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts performed to rave reviews both on the London stage and Broadway including Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and Ophelia in Hamlet (which went from the West End to Broadway)!
A Fantastic Femme to watch!

Genre credits include...
Cloverfield Paradox
A Wrinkle in Time (Dr Kate Murry)
Beauty and the Beast  [2017] (Plumette)
Black Mirror "San Junipero" (Kelly Booth)
Jupiter Ascending (Famulus)
Touch (Clea Hopkins)
Odd Thomas (Viola)

UnderCovers (Samantha Bloom)

BoneKickers (Viv Davis)

Bad Girls (Fidelity Saunders)

Trial Retribution (Jenny Miller)

Disarming Britain: FallOut (Shanice Roberts)

Doctor Who (Letitia "Tish" Jones)

Spooks aka MI-5 (Jenny)

Check out...
Gugu Mbatha-Raw (FanSite)
Adoring Gugu (FanSite)
Profile at RADA (via Wayback Machine)
Profile on the Undercovers page at NBC

Parminder Kaur Nagra

While her Bend It Like Beckham co-star Archie Panjabi has gotten all the attention lately...

...British actress Parminder Kaur Nagra has been assembling an impressive resume of her own including six years on ER, various movie and tv roles ranging from comedic to dramatic, and numerous genre roles including the mysterious Dr Lucille "Lucy" Banerjee aka Dr Sengupta on the short-lived Alcatraz! and, currently, the duplicitous Senator Ellen Nadeer on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.!

Genre credits include...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Senator Ellen Nadeer)
The BlackList (Meera Malik)
Twenty8k (Deeva Jani)

Alcatraz (Dr Lucy Banerjee/Sengupta)

Horrid Henry: The Movie (Miss Lovely)

Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon [VG] (Ops)

The Whole Truth "Liars"

Batman: Gotham Knight (Cassandra)

Ella Enchanted (Areida)

Judge John Deed "Exacting Justice"

Check out
Parminder's IMDB profile

Parminder's Twitter account

Parminder Nagra Online (FanSite)

Unwrap UNDERCOVER GIRL this Christmas!

Spies have always been popular in fiction.
Girls have always been popular in fiction.
So, it stands to reason that girl spies would be popular in fiction, right?
Not quite...
With the notable exception of Modesty Blaise, female secret agents have not been able to hold the spotlight, despite several high-quality attempts to crack the glass ceiling of spydom!

In comics, the short-lived 1950s Undercover Girl series from Magazine Enterprises was probably the best of the femme-spy genre.
Featuring art by luminaries like Bob Powell, Gil Kane, and Dick Ayers, the series detailed the adventures of government agent Starr Flagg against spies, saboteurs, and criminals.
Starr could shoot and fight (And, as you can see from the art, ride a motorcycle, one-handed yet!) as well as any male agent, but could play helpless and innocent to throw the baddies off-guard until she could kick serious butt!
You can read some of her adventures HERE!

Since she has no super-powers or outlandish gimmicks, we at Atomic Kommie Comics™ titled her "The Heroine ANY Girl can be!™" and made her one of the feature characters in our Heroines™ line with three different covers, as well as her classic retro-style logo on a variety of goodies including tops, shirts, mugs, and many other tchochkies.
What grrrl from 6 to 60 wouldn't want to find something featuring Undercover Girl under her Christmas tree or in her stocking?