Women of Sci-fi

Chanté Adams was born on 16 December 1994 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Roxanne Roxanne (2017), The Photograph (2020) and Bad Hair (2020).

Nora Arnezeder was born in Paris, France to an Austrian father and an Egyptian mother. While she was still in high school, she studied acting, dancing and singing at the renowned drama school Cours Florent in Paris. Nora's first major role was in 2008 in Paris 36 (French title: Faubourg 36) which was directed by Christophe Barratier and for which she won the Lumières Award as well as the Étoile d' Or award. In this film, Nora Arnezeder performed the song "Loin de Paname" which was nominated for Best Original Song at the 82nd Academy Awards. In 2012, Nora Arnezeder appeared in the film Safe House with Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington. In the same year, she appeared in the role of Celia in The Words, opposite Bradley Cooper and Ben Barnes. The film was presented at the Sundance Film Festival.

Nora Arnezeder also acted in the horror slasher film Maniac alongside Elijah Wood.

In 2013, Nora Arnezeder was the leading actress in the internationally praised costume drama Angélique by Ariel Zeitoun.

In November 2014, Nora Arnezeder was cast in the CBS series Zoo, based on the novel by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Zoo premiered in June 2015.

Recently, Nora Arnezeder participated in the series Mozart in the Jungle playing Anna Maria, the wife of the main character, Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal). The show won two Golden Globes.

Born in Los Angeles, California, the fourth of five daughters, she was dubbed "the baby with the beat" by her family - a title she earned for her frequent song and dance routines. Aronson began her professional acting career at a young age. In the height of her success, she left acting to attend UCLA as a Theater Arts major. Upon graduating from UCLA, Judie followed a unique idea she had, and was successful in creating several eclectic stores, which were featured in Los Angeles Magazine's "top 50 stores in LA" issue.

Irina Artenii is a Romanian film and theater actress .She was born on 1998 in Drochia,Moldova. She start studied at University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in 2017.In 2015, she plays first role in movie Vedem atatea nenorociri ca asta pare in plus.Other notable roles in One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017) ,Voyagers (2020) .Play on the stage of the theater "ARCUB" in Bucharest.

Actress Emily Atack was born December 18, 1989, in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, UK. Best known for comedy, she has appeared in numerous projects for TV, stage, and screen. In 2016, Emily played Daphne in the movie reprise of Dad's Army (2016) alongside Bill Nighy and Toby Jones. In 2017 Emily starred in Lies We Tell (2017) starring Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel. She was series regular Charlotte Hinchcliffe in all three series of the multiple award winning The Inbetweeners (2008); other TV credits include HBO/BBC's Tracey Ullman's Show (2016), Sky One's Little Crackers (2010), and BBC One's Father Brown (2013).

Nadège August is the Creator, Writer, Executive Producer and Lead of the hit web series BOUGIE DILEMMA streaming on Amazon. She was born in Brooklyn, NY but lived in France and Port-au-Prince, Haiti from the ages of 4 to 14. As such, she is fluent in English, French and Haitian Creole. Her MFA is in Theatre Arts from the Actors Studio program at The New School in New York. She received her first Theatre nomination from NAACP Theatre Awards in 2008 for her portrayal of "Abbe Putnam" in Eugene O'Neill's "Desire Under the Elms" at The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in Los Angeles. Another Theatre nod came in 2016 for her leading role in the West Coast Premiere of Dominique Morisseau's play "Sunset Baby". Nadège August is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.

Jennifer Balgobin is known for Repo Man (1984), Contact (1997) and Cherry 2000 (1987).

When she was a child, Jeanne Balibar wanted to be a dancer. She was already attracted by the stage and the show and admired great opera singers like Maria Callas. As she was going to take the last exam for becoming a lecturer, she decided not to go to the exam but to take an exam to become a stage actress. She went to the French academy for young actors, in Paris (like The Actors Studio, as if acting isn't taught in the same way) and she passed the very difficult exam without having previously acted in any play nor movie. When she finished her studies for acting, she started to work for La Comédie Française, a world-known French company which only produces French classics. She played the part of Elvire, from Molière's "Don Juan" in the biggest French stage festival: the festival of Avignon. She was really acclaimed by the French critics and public. She started to play in French cinema with directors such as Arnaud Desplechin ("My sexual like or how I get into an argument") or Olivier Assayas ("Last August, Early September" for which she earned a best actress award in the Spanish movie festival of San Sebastian). As though, these parts were dramatic, she was also wonderful in comedies such as "Ca ira mieux demain" (Jeanne Labrune) which made her more famous. She was really acclaimed for these movies but not very popular, as these films weren't blockbusters. The film which really made her famous is Rivette's "Who Knows" where she played the lead role of Camille, a French stage actress and created a very impressionating and innovative way of acting. She replaced Emmanuelle Béart for this part and became a very respected actress. She started to sing in 2003 and she did a record called "Paramour" with songs such as "Johnny Guitar" (from the Nicholas Ray's movie), "Pearl" (from "The Night of the Hunter") or even "Hélas" (a duet with Maggie Cheung who acted with her in "Clean", by Olivier Assayas). She is still a stage actress and started an international career with Winterbottom's "Code 46" (she played the part of Tim Robbin's girlfriend). As if she is not the most popular French actress, she is one of the most talented and her talents seem to have no limit: stage and movie acting, singing and soon dancing in Berliner's "Fred Astaire".

Model, dancer and actress, Terrie Batson's diverse artistic career includes being a Runway and Print Model as well as featured in several area & National TV Commercials & National Print Ads. She has acted in major feature films including Mary in "Cyborg" with Jean Claude VanDamme, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II, "29th Street" and in several Wilmington, NC area Independent feature films.

Her acting career also includes appearances in Television productions such as "Young Indiana Jones", "In A Childs Name", "Bitter Blood", "One Tree Hill", and recent featured roles in Wilmington, NC film productions of "The Gritters", "Change", "Two Eleven", "Penny Popper Takes Flight" & "Finding Home"

Theatre productions include Thalian Hall Theatre productions of "Chicago", "West Side Story" and BrownCoat Theatre productions "Namaste, Indiana", "Catastropolis", "Monk's Brew" and "Beautiful Thing", Cape Fear Playhouse productions of "Looeyville" & "When I Last Saw Davy"and Big Dawg Productions "MotherHood Out Loud" & "Dearly Beloved" . Most recently Terrie was a lead performer in "The Seven Deadly Sins of Being a Woman".

Pamela Bellwood was born on 26 June 1944 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Airport '77 (1977), Dynasty (1981) and Serial (1980). She has been married to Nik Wheeler since 30 December 1984. They have one child. She was previously married to Peter Bellwood.

Kari Berg is known for Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019) and We Are Like Oranges (2012).

Jodi Blunt is known for Elves (1989) and Alien Seed (1989). She has been married to Chris R. Kuhn since 2 September 1995. They have five children.

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina was born in Svendborg, Denmark. She is an actress, known for The Colony (2021), Dune: Prophecy (2024) and The Bridge (2011). She has been married to Louis Samson Myhre since 2016.

Conni Marie Brazelton was born in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. Conni Marie is an actor, known for Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), ER (1994) and This Is Us (2016). Conni Marie has been married to Michael George since 1991. They have one child.

Annabel Brooks was born January 4, 1958 to Caroline Diana Todd and Robert Noel Brooks. She appeared in the several films of the 1980s and made her first on-screen appearance in the poorly received sci-fi horror, Nightflyers (1987). She had the role of Eliza. The same year, she appeared in A Handful of Dust (1988), and later, in The Witches (1990), as Nicola, a high-ranking witch.

Judith Burke is known for The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), Alien Private Eye (1989) and Cold Heat (1989).

A long acting career with a wealth of Awards (Screen Stars, Berlinale Shooting Stars, BIFA, IFTA) established Antonia Campbell-Hughes as having 'a flair for experiment and depth'. From the Cannes breakout The Other Side of Sleep, Jane Campion's Bright Star, the BAFTA-winning Kelly & Victor in the title role. Campbell-Hughes is widely known for her portrayal of Natascha Kampusch in 3096 Days, and as Marie-Antoinette in Dangerous Liaisons for Starz.

The psychological thriller Cordelia had its US release May 2022, with Antonia in the title role, co-written with director Adrian Shergold. It co-starred Johnny Flynn and Michael Gambon. Writing for the UK Times, Kevin Maher said "Henry James and Roman Polanski are the touchstones as we spend an eerie, alienating weekend in the London basement flat and dark fractured mind of Cordelia, an aspiring actress and terror-attack survivor, superbly played by the febrile Antonia Campbell-Hughes." Campbell-Hughes also starred in Colum Eastwood's 2021 thriller 'Black Medicine', for which she received glowing reviews for her lead performance as underground medic Jo. Writing for The Guardian, Phuong Le wrote "..the brilliance of Campbell- Hughes, who gives an amazing performance. Underneath the stoicism, pain is subtly etched into her features and gestures"

Campbell-Hughes's feature debut as writer/director was 'It Is In Us All', a complex psychological drama starring Cosmo Jarvis and Claes Bang. 'It Is In Us All' had its world premiere at South by Southwest '22, where it won the Jury Award for 'Extraordinary Cinematic Vision', and unanimous rave reviews naming Campbell-Hughes as an exciting rare talent to watch (Variety- "As a debuting director, Campbell-Hughes proves she has style to burn." ). Campbell-Hughes received a British Independent Film Awards nomination for 'It Is In Us All' for Best Performance.

European Film Promotion named Campbell-Hughes the UK recipient for Directors of 2022. Her previous short 'Acre Fall Between' (BFI, Curzon) received top stars by Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw, who called it 'a disquietingly hallucinatory, dreamlike event'.

Jordana Capra was born on 13 April 1961 in California, USA. She is an actress, known for Trouble Is My Business (2018), Miracle Mile (1988) and Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (2012). She is married to Jimm Newman.

Betty Ann Carr was born on 6 September 1942 in Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Hangar 18 (1980), Cancel My Reservation (1972) and Inferno in Paradise (1974). She was married to Thomas Carr. She died on 7 January 1995 in Morristown, Tennessee, USA.

Born and bred near Byron Bay in Australia, Erin grew up on a tropical fruit farm with a menagerie of animals to look after. With a rural upbringing, Erin learnt early on the lessons earned by hard work and community.

Erin enjoys a versatile reputation, and has portrayed a myriad of characters from high class QCs to former drug addicts and enjoys stepping into the lives of the characters she play through both diligent research and a passion for getting into the heads of the storytellers with whom she works.

Erin has received praise for her lead roles in Dru Brown's cult film The Suicide Theory (2014), as Julie Nile in RISE (2014), where she starred opposite Australian icon Martin Sacks and was released on Australian screens in 2015 and across the US and Canada via Netflix; Her performance as Jenny Bartlett opposite Temuera Morrison (Once Were Warriors) and Ken Jong (The Hangover) in Occupation (2018) and Occupation: Rainfall (2020), and in Beast No More (2019) where her portrayal of the antagonist Blanch has helped enforce the movement of stronger females holding their ground on screens.

Tina Cote is known for Barb Wire (1996), Just Looking (1995) and Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995).

Ellen Crawford was born in Normal, Illinois, USA. Ellen is an actor, known for The Man from Earth (2007), ER (1994) and Soldier (1998). Ellen has been married to Mike Genovese since 18 October 1982.

Maggie Cronin is known for High-Rise (2015), Zone 414 (2021) and Doctors (2000).

Vicki Darnell is known for Brain Damage (1988), Frankenhooker (1990) and Alien Space Avenger (1989).

Esther Davis is an Australian actress and singer, best known for her roles as Phryne Fisher in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and its film adaptation, Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears, and as Amelia Vanek in The Babadook. Other major works include a recurring role as Lady Crane in season six of the television series Game of Thrones, Sister Iphigenia in Lambs of God, and the role of Ellen Kelly in Justin Kurzel's True History of the Kelly Gang.