Billie Jean King
Billie Jean King won the match against a male tennis champion named Bobby Riggs, and she became well-known because of this. Their game was given the title of the “Battle of the Sexes” and was also the storyline for the movie that had the same title. Billie Jean King announced and came out that she was gay. Billie Jean was the very first major female athlete to do this. She had been given a place in the International Tennis Hall of Fame last 1987. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009. She made full advantage of her fame to create the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative in 2014. The aim of this was to help people embrace diversity at work.
Billie Jean King
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret became a sensation overnight because of her performance as Kim McAfee. It was for the film adaptation of the musical Bye Bye Birdie. Her acting career started to grow during 1961, and it managed to grow exponentially as years passed by. She played the starring roles for quite a few movies during the ’70s. She even received nominations for Oscar because of her performance in Carnal Knowledge and Tommy. She maintained her spot in the limelight by appearing in different films and T.V. shows. One of her most recent appearances was in Showtime’s Ray Donovan last 2014. She was still among the most admirable stars of Hollywood nowadays. She had been nominated for almost everything. She had been nominated for two Grammys, two Oscars, five Golden Globes, and six Emmys.
Ann Margret