World Women Heroes Awards in TV
WWHA 2020 nominees organized by category, with links to articles.
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Working for Mossad, Ziva joined the NCIS team as a seconded agent from a foreign power under the status of liaison officer, following the assassination attempt on NCIS Special Agent Gibbs. Maria Jos...
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Caroline Proust - Laure Berthaud : Engrenages Captain with sometimes tough methods, Laure Berthaud works for the Regional Directorate of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Paris Police Prefecture. Caroline pro...
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Helen McCrory - Elizabeth "Polly" Gray : Peaky Blinders Matriarch of the Shelby family, Elizabeth ran the Peaky Blinders business while the Shelby men were at war. Playing one of the central characters of the Peaky Blin...
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Lucy Liu - Joan Watson : Elementary A former surgeon who ended her career after her husband's overdose, Watson found herself hired by Sherlock Holmes' father as a sober companion when she left rehab. Taking an interest...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Neurobiologist, Sheldon's female counterpart at the beginning of their story, coldly rational, showing little emotion and clumsy in her relationship with the group. As the seasons go by, Amy learns...
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Alyson Hannigan - Lily Aldrin : How I Met Your mother Having a vocation to care for kindergarten children, Lily refuses to quit her job to earn more money, which doesn't stop her from spending it on clothes. She likes t...
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Roselyn Sanchez - Carmen Luna : Devious Maids As a young Puerto Rican maid, Carmen Luna would like to break into music. She manages to get hired as a domestic worker at one of the properties of Latin pop star Alejandro...
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Sofia Vergara - Gloria Delgado Pritchett: Modern Family Colombian and proud of her origins, Gloria will claim it very often. Very bad driver and quite sensitive, she happens to be quite comfortable with the notion of d...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Working for a morning TV show, Alex has to deal with personal life crises in addition to her career. Jennifer Aniston became known for her role as Rachel Green in Friends. Following a string of movi...
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Blanca Suárez - Alba Romero Mendes : Las Chicas Del Cable Accused of murder, Alba must change her identity and start a new life. Under the pseudonym Lidia Aguilar Davila, she will get a job as a telephone operator in a...
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Claire Danes - Carrie Mathison : Homeland A CIA operative secretly suffering from bipolar disorder, Carrie believes that a former sailor has radicalized after eight years kidnapped by Al Qaeda. Her perseverance in dete...
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Sandra Oh - Eve Polastri : Killing Eve As an operational agent of MI5, Eve Polastri is in charge of finding the killer of an assassination she is investigating. Discovering that the killer is a woman, a cat and mouse ga...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Cousin of Kal-El, better known as Superman, Supergirl arrives on earth with the mission to protect him. But she arrives 24 years too late. Two television shows have brought Melissa Benoist to the pu...
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Candice Patton - Iris West : The Flash As a reporter for Picture News, Iris will be meeting with forensic scientist Barry Allen. She'll fall in love with him, unaware that he's none other than Flash. It is in 2002 that...
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Katheryn Winnick - Lagertha : Vikings Wife of Ragnar Lothborck, former Queen of Kattegat, Lagertha turns out to be a ruthless warrior, whether for her own sake, to help Ragnar or her son Björk. Katheryn Winnick's televi...
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Lesley-Ann Brandt - Mazikeen : Lucifer Demon and guardian of the gates of hell, Mazikeen works under Lucifer's orders. She will follow him on earth as a bodyguard but gets bored and wonders when they will return to hell...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Adopted by Ambassador Vulcan Sarek, Michael will become the first human to graduate from the Vulcan Academy of Sciences. She will join the Starfleet organization and serve for seven years under Capt...
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Eliza Taylor - Clarke Griffin : The 100 Accused of treason and imprisoned rather than executed, Clarke will be sent to Earth with 99 other prisoners to see if the air has become breathable and habitable following a nucl...
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Gina Carano - Carasynthia Cara Dune : The Mandalorian Shock Trooper during the Galactic Civil War, Cara decides to leave her life as a soldier to become a mercenary and help the Mandalorian. It is after a defeat in an...
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Thandie Newton - Maeve Millay : Westworld A charming, perceptive and manipulative android, Maeve, known as Madame de Mariposa, has a strong survival instinct and quickly understands the needs of her clients. Thandie New...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker, is a mini-series based on A'Lelia Blundes' biography On her own ground about the career of her grandmother Madame C.J. Walker, the first Africa...
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Mrs. America Inspired by a true story, Mrs. America tells the story of a conservative American politician representing the anti-feminist movement, aiming to fight against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment,...
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The Crown Based on the film The Queen and the play The Audience, The Crown tells the story of the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her marriage in 1947, to her coronation and reign to the present day. Cast: Claire Foy,...
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Unorthodox Adapted from the autobiography Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots, tells the story of a young Jewish girl from an ultra-Orthodox family who decides to flee her community after her arrang...
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*** AWARD 2020 *** Priyanka Chopra became Miss World 2000 before Bollywood became interested in her and quickly began her acting career with her first film Thamizhan. From 2015 to 2018, she played Alex Parrish in the...
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Audra McDonald Audra McDonald is a very popular actress and singer on Broadway. Her career began in 1994 in musicals and plays. She has won six Tony Awards (the equivalent of the Oscars for theatre). In 1998, she releas...
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Eileen Moreno Eileen Moreno is an actress star of Colombian Télénovela. Her most famous television roles have been in La Viuda Negra, and El Chivo. Eileen became the symbol in Colombia against domestic violence against...
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Jane Seymour Fonda, Actress, Producer, Feminist Author, Peace Activist, committed feminist and peace activist, made her theater debut in 1960 in the play There Was a Little Girl, earning her two Tony Award nominations....
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