Known for roles in The Big Bird Cage and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier was definitely a recognizable face in the 70’s. She went on to star in the popular television show The L Word for six seasons between 2004 and 2009. However, her best-known role was in the 1997 film Jackie Brown, which was directed by Quentin Tarantino. Pam was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and Quentin Tarantino has actually remarked that she may have been cinema’s first female action star because of the role! These days, Pam is still acting, including some voice-over work for video games like Grand Theft Auto V. She’s also started a Community Garden and Education Center in Texas that was named after her, although she spends most of her time in Colorado.
Diane Keaton first rose to fame as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather, and she went on to become one of the most recognizable faces of the 1970s. She appeared in a number of comedic Woody Allen films all throughout the 1970s, including Play It Again, Sam, Sleeper, and Love and Death. Diane’s fourth film with Allen was Annie Hall, which was written especially for her. Her role as Annie won her an Academy Award! She continued acting all throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, and went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Reds, Marvin’s Room, and Something’s Gotta Give . Outside of acting, Diane also enjoys photography, singing, and writing. Most recently, she voiced the character of Jenny in the 2016 film Finding Dory.
This gorgeous brunette has the distinction of appearing as a Bond girl in both The Spy Who Loved Me and Never Say Never Again. She was also in Revenge of the Pink Panther and The Italian Job! Despite her successful film career, Valerie was forced to take all sorts of odd jobs to make ends meet when her husband passed away in 1988. She’s doing much better today - she spends most of her time performing with her singing group and attending film conventions!
Liv Ullmann was born to Norwegian parents, but her father worked abroad and she spent her childhood living in Tokyo, Toronto, New York and Oslo, Norway. She began her career as a stage actress in Norway, but was relatively unknown until the mid 1960s. This is when she became one of the muses of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who cast her in ten of his best-known films including Persona, The Passion of Anna, and Cries and Whispers. In 1972, she landed a role in the critically acclaimed film The Emigrants, for which she won a Golden Globe. She’s also been nominated for Two Tony Awards for her work in the theater. Liv is a talented director as well, and she’s directed a number of theater productions as well as films like Faithless and Miss Julie.
Talia Shire was born into a talented family; some of her famous relatives include actor Nicolas Cage, director Francis Ford Coppola, and the conductor Anton Coppola. Given her good genes and her Italian ancestry, it’s no surprise that Talia was chosen to play the role of Connie Corleone in The Godfather and its sequels! The role made her famous, and it also got her nominated for an Academy Award. Audiences will also recognize her as Adrian Balboa from the Rocky series, another role that earned her an Academy Award nomination as well as an Oscar nomination. Some of Talis’s other notable works include Kiss the Bride, I Heart Huckabees, and Homo Erectus, and she was most recently seen in the 2016 comedy film Dreamland.
