Tamlyn Naomi Tomita

Before becoming an actress, teen Tamlyn Naomi Tomita won the title of Queen of the Nisei Week Pageant in Los Angeles and Miss Nikkei International.
She made her acting debut in Karate Kid Part II. On the film she met long-time actress Nobu McCarthy, also a former beauty queen. The veteran actress became a role model, mentor and close friend to Tamlyn, making it especially difficult when, in 2002, Nobu passed away unexpectedly while the two performers were shooting Gaijin 2 on location in Brazil.
Tamlyn's noted for playing emotionally-intense, conflicted, characters.

Trivia:
Had she continued in the role of Laurel Takashima on Babylon 5, it would have been revealed that she was the Psi Corps "sleeper agent" responsible for the attempted assassination of Ambassador Kosh in the pilot. (Instead, the actual assassin was revealed as a guest-star character, and the idea of making a regular character a mind-controlled agent was transferred to Talia Winters.)
It's implied that Dr. Linda Kimura in Criminal Minds "Amplification" is actually Dr. Kimberly Shiroma from Burning Zone, including her knowledge of covert biological experiments and the line "It's been years since I've worn one of these!" (referring to a hazmat suit).
She's currently in Star Trek: Picard as Commodore Oh, a Vulcan Starfleet officer revealed to be a Romulan spy!
Genre appearances include...

Star Trek: Picard (Commodore/General Oh)

Man in the High Castle (Tamiko Wantanabe)

Law & Order: LA (Medical Examiner Nishizawa)

Tekken (Jun Kazama)
Mentalist "BloodShot"
CSI: Miami "Seeing Red"
Criminal Minds "Amplification" (Dr. Linda Kimura)
The Eye [2008] (Mrs. Cheung)
Heroes (Ishi Nakamura)
Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis (Ambassador Shen Xiaoyi)
Womens' Murder Club "Maybe Baby"
24 (Jenny Dodge)
Eureka (Kim Anderson/Kim Anderson Clone)
Pandemic (Melissa Lo)
Threat Matrix "Under the Gun"
The Shield "Pilot"
The Agency (Elizabeth)
FreakyLinks "Subject: the Final Word"
JAG (Lt. Cmdr. Tracy Manetti)
James Bond 007: NightFire [VG] (Makiko Hayashi)
Highlander "Samurai"
Day After Tomorrow (Janet Tokada)
Runaway Virus (Monique Chao)
Robot Stories (Marcia)
Burning Zone (Dr. Kimberly Shiroma)
Babylon 5 "The Gathering" (Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima)
Last Man on Planet Earth (Agent Kara Hastings)
Killing Jar (Diane Sanford)
Murder She Wrote "Death in Hawaii"
Vanishing Son (Lan Chi)
Time Trax "Return of the Yakuza"
Quantum Leap "Temptation Eyes: February 1, 1985"
Raven (Kim Tanaka)
Check out...
Tamlyn's FaceBook page

Jennifer Lynn Lopez (Noa / Judd / Anthony)

Your first thought is "Jennifer Lopez's done action / sci-fi / fantasy?"
While most of her films (including the newest one The Back-Up Plan) are, indeed, fantasies, they're romance fantasies.
But, JLo's done some true genre work (and done it well)!
And, truth to tell, I miss the sassy hot-body dancer of her In Living Color "Fly Girl" days...but even though she's hitting the Big 5-0, the lady's still HOT!

Genre appearances include...
Shades of Blue (Harlee Santos)
Lila & Eve (Eve Rafael)
Parker (Leslie Rodgers)
Enough (Slim Hiller)

The Cell (Katherine Deane)

Money Train (Grace Santiago)

U Turn (Grace McKenna)

Anaconda (Terri Flores)

Out of Sight (Karen Sisco)

Antz (Azteca)

Angel Eyes (Sharon Pogue)

Check out...

Her Official site

Jennifer Lopez Fragrances

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