Son Tae-Young - "You're The Best Lee Soon-Shin"

Born in 1980, Son Tae-Young was former Miss Korea before family commitments made her resign to an actress’s role. Although often apart of the supporting cast, one of her most noted roles is Lee Hye-Shin in the Korean drama “You’re the Best Lee Soon-Shin”.

Lee Hye-Shin is the eldest daughter of the Lee family. Having grown up beautiful and the most popular girl in school, she graduated from a top university and was going to lead a prosperous career at a multinational company as a lawyer before she married a man who was considered perfect – wealthy, handsome and from a prominent family. Due to her husbands work, she moved from Korea to China to become a mother and housewife.

Son Tae-Young’s character, seems like a typical story about a perfect life however if it wasn’t for her good life it wouldn’t reveal the complications that lie beneath such a pretty story.

Throughout the series, she continues to display her elegance and knowledge however this serves to continuously remind the audience that she lost important opportunities during her marriage. Lee Hye-Shin is a character that deals with accepting failure and the pressure that comes with attaining perfection. It also deals with the stereotypes of women supposedly being unable to be independent.

Tatiana Maslay - Orphan Black

Tatiana Maslay 
Tatiana was born on the 22^nd of September 1985. She has starred in televisions series such as The Nativity, Being Erica, Heartland and Orphan Black.

Sarah and the clones

Maslay is currently the lead of the hit Canadian science fiction thriller series Orphan Black, for which she has received widespread critical acclaim, winning two Critics’ choice television Awards, a TCA award, and two Canadian screen awards, and receiving Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG nominations.

In the series Orphan Black, Maslay not only plays the lead character, Sarah Manning, but also plays Sarah’s cohort of clones: Cosima, Niehaus, Alison Hendrix, Helena, Rachel Duncan, Elizabeth Childs, Katja Obinger, Janika Zingler, Aryanna Giodano, Danielle Fournier, Jennifer Fitsimmons, Krystal Goderitch and Tony sawicki. Playing 14 different characters, each having totally different personalities, wardrobe and accents we are able to see Maslays talent of acting.

The series focuses on Sarah Manning, a woman who assumes the identity of one of her clones, Elizabeth Childs (also known as Beth), after witnessing child’s suicide. The series raises issues about the moral and ethical implications of human cloning and its effect on issues of personal identity.

Here we have a trailer of the series Orphan Black which gives you a little idea of the tv series. 

Tina Belcher in Bob's Burgers

Bob's Burgers is an American animated sitcom created by Loren Bouchard for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Belchers—parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise—who run a hamburger restaurant. 

The face behind the cartoons. 

Tina Ruth Belcher is the oldest child. She is a hopeless romantic with a powerful sex drive and minimal social skills.  She likes horses, rainbows, zombies, writing erotic fiction, and movies, as was revealed in Crawl Space. She attends Wagstaff School with her siblings, Gene Belcher and Louise Belcher. She is voiced by Dan Mintz.

Tina's personality in essence is a quirky girl transitioning from childhood to adolescence. The child in her still clings to her love for horses, rainbows, and zombies while her inner teenager calls her to fantasize about zombies making out, writing her feelings/activities in her diary, to write erotic fiction whether it be about friends or other people's works, and constantly think about her crush, Jimmy Pesto, Jr., along with anyone else she deems cute like an entire baseball team of twenty-five for example. 

Tina Belcher is funny, witty and just spin award. Her character is so relatable as many teenage girls can empathise with her social situations. The satirical characterisation emphasises the embarrassing and less glamorous side of growing up, crushes, school and life in general.

Donna Noble - Doctor Who

From the introduction of her character it is very clearly shown that she is in no way similar to predeceasing female traveling companions of the Doctor. Portrayed by actress Catherine Tate.

She stands by her own opinion, which often gets her into trouble and wakes her up to the fact that she can make a difference. Though, despite The Doctor telling her otherwise she doesn’t hold on to every word he says. Along with her amazing qualities, she also has her down moments when she is unable to see her true value. This is something all women can relate. We often don’t always feel amazing and have our bad days. Despite her hard and loud exterior shell, she is still quite soft inside, like we all are. She often has trouble convincing herself how truly important she is.

Taraji P Henson - Empire

Taraji is an American actress and singer who is currently 45 years of age and has accomplished many things in her life. Henson studied acting at Howard University and began her acting career in 2001 on a television show 'Baby Boy'. In 2008 she played 'Queenie' in David Fincher’s 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best supporting Actress.

She has had an extensive career in television, having been a regular cast member on series such as The Division, Boston Legal and Eli Stone.

As of 2015, she stars as Cookie Lyon on the FOX drama series Empire, for which she won the “Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Actress” in a Drama Series and is nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Lead Actress” in a Drama series.

In the show Empire, Henson is one of the main characters (Cookie Lyon) within the series. In her first appearance on the show she is released from prison and strikes out to lay claim to half of Luscious’ multi-million dollar record label, which was initially funded by her drug money. She is portrayed as a “total badass”. Being a total badass she is strong woman who puts her family first. Henson describes Cookie as a “raw nerve from the hood”.

Henson’s Character, Cookie has a bold fashion statement, which accompanies her character.  In her first appearance of the show, she is released from prison in what she was locked up in. Her outfit is a bit outdated. However as the show goes on her wardrobe grows. Her wardrobe is filled with fur, animal prints, god and sparkles, which portray her as “fierce, caring and extremely powerful”.

Mindy Kaling - Actress, Director, Writer and the lead in the Mindy Project.

Mindy Kaling is best known for her role in the popular TV comedy "The Mindy Project".
She is also known for her work on the NBC sitcom "The Office", where she portrayed the character Kelly Kapoor and served as executive producer, writer and director.

In 2012, Kaling pitched a single-camera comedy to Fox called The Mindy Project, which was written and produced by Kaling. Fox began airing the series Tuesdays at 9:30 Eastern Time starting in 2012.

Kaling notes that she is sometimes described as a pioneer, as there are not yet very many Indian-American women on television.

In 2004, when The Office producer Greg Daniels was working to adapt The Office from the BBC show of the same name, he hired Kaling as a writer-performer after reading a spec script she wrote. "She's very original ... If anything feels phony or lazy or passé, she’ll pounce on it."

When Kaling joined the The Office, she was 24 years old and was the only woman on a staff of eight. She took on the role of character Kelly Kapoor, debuting in the series’ second episode, "Diversity Day." She has written at least 22 episodes, including "Niagara", for which she was co-nominated for an Emmy with Greg Daniels. Kaling wrote and directed the webisode "Subtle Sexuality" in 2009.

In a 2007 interview with The A.V. Club, she stated that "Kelly" is "an exaggerated version of what I think the upper-level writers believe my personality is. After the "Diwali" episode, Kaling appeared with Daniels on NPR's Fresh Air.

It is evident that Mindy Kaling is a stand out in the comedy world and in TV. This is displayed through the many awards she has received on a professional as well as a personal level. She is a wonderful role model for females all around the world. To do what you love and never let anything get in the way of that. Being a minority in both gender and ethnicity especially in hollywood isn't a disadvantage but there is a progression giving these minorities a voice and audience.

Introduction

Welcome to our blog!

Over the last couple of years there has been a rise in the popularity a change in the depiction of women on TV. We are going to talk about the image on women on TV.

Answering questions like:
What type of qualities does this woman contribute to the TV show?
What makes this character cool/likable/admirable?
Why do we personally think this character is inspiring?
And soooo much more

Enjoy our perspectives of women from different TV shows everyday of the week!
Mondays - Shweta Rao
Tuesday - Leanne Nguyen
Wednesdays - Cindy Tran
Thursdays - Rochelle Gomez
Fridays - Sanya Seth