List of female characters of color

Women of color in SF
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Encyclopedia of Female Characters
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This includes notable characters who are not necessarily protagonists, as well as protagonists.

TV

• Nina Barry in UFO
• Sarah Chambers in Babylon 5: Crusade
• Cindy; Original Cindy - Max's best friend on "Dark Angel"; an African-American lesbian and fellow Jam Pony delivery person
• Rema Cook in Mercy Point
• Damphouse in Space: Above and Beyond
• Astrid Farnsworth, in Fringe; African American.
• J. J. Fredericks in SeaQuest 2032
• Helen in Cleopatra 2525
• Emma Hollis, FBI Agent in Millennium TV series season 3
• Martha Jones, in Doctor Who.
• Kendra on Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 2-3
• Kennedy on Buffy The Vampire Slayer season 7 - The character's ethnicity is never discussed, but the actor, Iyari Limon, is Mexican-American.
• Lt. Maxwell in M.A.N.T.I.S.
• Dayna Mellanby in Blake's 7
• Perri Reed in Night Stalker
• Ann Richter in Strange Luck
• Toshiko Sato, in Torchwood
• Inara and Zoe in Firefly.
• Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series

Movies

• Mace, in "Strange Days" [Angela Bassett kicks ass but is not really the protagonist; however, she is the hero]
• Lieutenant Uhura in the original Star Trek series
• Private Vasquez in Aliens

Comics

• Agent 355 in "Y: The Last Man" - one of the major characters; an African-American woman
• Sheriff Thomasina "Tommy" Lindo, an African-American woman in the Wildstorm comic "Welcome to Tranquility"
• Dr. Allison Mann in "Y: The Last Man" - one of the major characters, and the world's leading geneticist; also a lesbian and an Asian-American character (her original name was Ayuko Matsumori)
• Yoko Tsuno

Print fiction

• Nneddima Okerafor-Mbachu. Zahrah and all other characters in Zahrah the Windseeker.

See also

• List of SF featuring women of color as protagonists (for adult protagonists)
• List of YA SF featuring heroines of color (for YA protagonists)
• List of female characters of color (for other notable characters that are not necessarily protagonists)

External Links

• Scary Sistas: A Brief History of Black Women in Horror Films, at Pretty-Scary.net