World Women Heroes Awards in TV
WWHA 2019 nominees organized by category, with links to articles.
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*** AWARD 2019 *** It is in the fifth season of The Closer that we discover Captain Sharon Raydor who was in charge of internal affairs. Following the departure of Brenda Leigh Johnson, Raydor found herself leading the...
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Temperance Brennan, Bones. Temperance Brennan is the main character of the Bones series. She's an expert in forensic anthropology working at the Jefferson Institute. She and her team are called upon to work collaborativ...
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Olivia Benson, Law & Order SVU. The NYPD has a Special Unit headed by Lieutenant Olivia Benson. With three inspectors, it investigates crimes with a sexual aspect by taking care of the victims.. Mariska Hargitay mad...
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Kate Beckett, Castle. Katherine Beckett is the heroine of the Castle series. She is a Lieutenant and Team Leader at the 12th Precinct Homicide Department of the NYPD. She joined the police force motivated by the death o...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** Eleanor Shellstrop is the heroine of the series The Good Place. Upon her death, she found herself in the Good Place, an equivalent of Paradise, where only people with fundamentally pure souls could go...
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Grace Hanson, Grace and Frankie. Grace Hanson, a retired businesswoman, did not expect her husband to announce his Homosexuality and his relationship with Sol. After her divorce, she moved into the house of the beach in...
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Nancy Botwin - Weeds. Due to financial difficulties, Nancy Botwin, widow and housewife, decides to sell cannabis to her neighbors to support her family. Mary-Louise Parker began her career in 1991 in Grand Canyon, follo...
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Piper Chapman, Orange is the New Black. Arrested for carrying money from the sale of heroin, Piper Chapman was sentenced and imprisoned to 15 months in the Litchfield Penitentiary detention center. Taylor Schilling was...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** At the head of her own firm in Philadelphia, Annalise Keating, Professor of Criminal Law and renowned Lawyer, finds herself one day involved in a murder with some of her students who have the privileg...
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Selina Meyer, Veep. Selina Meyer finds herself serving her country as Vice President following her failure in the primaries for the US presidential election. She accepts this position because she doesn't think she can c...
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Olivia Pope, Scandal. Olivia Pope, a public relations expert close to the White House, is renowned for her crisis management skills, which she manages with the help of her staff. Kerry Washington was revealed in 2004 in...
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Claire Underwood, House of cards. A lobbyist in an environmental NGO, Claire Underwood agrees to become her husband's partner in a conspiracy to dismiss the President of the United States. Actress, Director and producer...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** Regina Mills is one of the main characters in Once Upon A Time. She is the Evil Queen from Snow White. To get back at her, Regina launches a curse that sends all the fairytale characters into the real...
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Daenerys Targaryen, Game Of Thrones. Daenerys Targaryen is one of the main characters in the Game Of Thrones series. She is at the centre of one of the series' intrigues: Daenerys is the last descendant of the fallen Ta...
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Xena, Xena: Warrior Princess. After having been a ruthless war leader for many years, Xena redeems herself through Hercules. Alongside Gabrielle, she will do everything possible to defeat evil by fighting against warrio...
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Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy Summers is the heroine of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Buffy is a young high school student, a vampire killer from a long line of elected officials, who is given supernatural...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** Carol Peletier is a worried and scared mother who is being beaten by her husband. When he died following the attack of the walkers, Carol eventually became, with the passing of the seasons, a strong a...
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Samantha Carter, Stargate SG-1. Samantha Carter is one of the main characters in the Stargate SG-1 series. She is a brilliant scientist and astrophysicist, working for the Pentagon. First Captain, Major, then later prom...
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Dana Scully, The X-Files. As an FBI agent parachuted into the unclassified cases department, Dana Scully must report in detail on Agent Mulder's activities on the usefulness and credibility of his work on so-called para...
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Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, Battlestar Galactica. A fearless, rebellious woman, a lover of cigars and strong alcohols, Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is nevertheless the best Viper pilot in the entire colonial fleet. Known for her...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** Stunt Woman, Xena: Warrior Princess (Lucy Lawless) / kill bill volume 1 & 2 (Uma Thurman) / Inglorious Basterds (Diane kruger et Mélanie Laurent) / Iron man 3 Starting her stunt career in the Herc...
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Known to have been Lara Croft's Motion Capture model in the game Tomb Raider: Underwold, Heidi Moneymaker began her stunt career in 2002 in both television and film, for Hunger games / Lone Ranger/ The Expandables / Iro...
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Jeannie Epper is the most famous stuntwoman in the film industry. With more than 100 films and series to her credit, she was Lynda Carter's stand-in for the Wonder Woman series. Entertainment Weekly declared that many c...
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Patricia Tallman is perhaps best known for her work in the 1990 cult classic Night of The Living Dead or for her role in the Hugo Award winning series, Babylon 5. Either way, she has been swept into a career that featur...
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*** AWARD 2019 *** Jennifer Morrison is an American actress, producer and director. She began her career at a very young age, in the 1990s, as a model child for advertising. In 1994, at the age of 15, she got her very f...
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Actress, Producer, Director and Activist. Amanda Tapping is a British-Canadian actress and director. She began her career in theatre. In 1988, she appeared in Shakespeare's La Mégère apprivoisée. She participated in com...
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Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman and Activist. Eva Longoria is an American actress, producer, director and screenwriter. She began her career in 2000, appearing in the Beverly Hills 90210 series, and it wa...
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Producer, Director and Screenwriter. Shonda Rhimes is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed her first short film Blossoms and Veils in 1997. The following year, she wrote a screenplay for HBO's T...
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