WOMEN

Rosie Perez is an Oscar-nominated actress who starred in such films as White Men Can’t Jump, Fearless and Do the Right Thing. Perez started her performance career as a dancer and went on to choreograph music videos and the television series In Living Color. Brooklyn-born ...

Toni Morrison wrote the introduction to American Masters - The Women's List, which she also read and recorded for the film. The author of many critically acclaimed novels, Morrison received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for Beloved and in 1993 received the Nobel ...

Meet 15 women who define contemporary American culture in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ new “List” film featuring Madeleine Albright, Margaret Cho, Edie Falco, Betsey Johnson, Alicia Keys, Nancy Pelosi, Rosie Perez, Wendy Williams and more. All trailblazers in their fields, these women share their experiences struggling against ...

1927 Althea Gibson is born in Silver, SC, on August 25, 1927. 1930 Family moves North to Philadelphia, PA, then settled in Harlem in New York City. 1939 At age of 12, Althea becomes New York City women's paddle tennis champion. 1941 Althea enters—and wins—her first ...

Althea Gibson is seen in home movies at the esteemed West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, a mecca of tennis and national championships. The footage was taken by Bob Davis, her practice partner, who recalls how the setting was both alien and marvelous to ...

Tennis champion Althea Gibson (1927-2003) was the unlikely queen of the segregated tennis world in the 1950s. She was the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U.S. Nationals (precursor of the U.S. Open) — a decade before Arthur Ashe.

The artistry of singer and actress Judy Garland (1922 - 1969) is a living legacy upheld by the great singers of our time. American Masters asked performing artists who hold Garland's work close to their hearts and in their own personal repertory what inspires them ...

Marian Seldes, a vital figure in New York theater, died October 6, 2014, in her Manhattan home. She was 86. Seldes was an enduring presence on the Broadway stage, notably performing in the works of Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, and Tennessee Williams. In a career ...

Three powerful baby boomer women --- journalist Maria Shriver, playwright Eve Ensler, and historian Julieanna Richardson --- speak about their personal lives and the place of women in society in outtakes from American Masters: The Boomer List, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Maria Shriver: Know Your ...