Octavia Spencer is no stranger to playing inspiring women, and in her new miniseries, she's portraying a real-life icon.In a four-part series that premieres on Netflix on Friday, the Oscar winner stars as Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam C.J.
Walker, a black hair care pioneer and business mogul in the early 1900s, who broke ground as America's first female self-made millionaire.«Madam C.J.'s story is fascinating,» Spencer tells ET's Rachel Smith of the impressive role. «It's the fact that she actually existed, that she was able, at the turn of the century, to amass the wealth that she did.
She's the first self-made, female millionaire of any ethnicity of this country, and she didn't have the right to vote and she didn't really have
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