Trailer: Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer as haircare millionaire Madam C.J. Walker in ‘Self Made’
Octavia Spencer in SELF MADE: INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MADAM C.J. WALKER
“I didn’t come here to make sandwiches, I came here to do business.”
Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer stars as Madam C.J. Walker, the trailblazing African American haircare entrepreneur who was America’s first female self-made millionaire and here is your first look at the four-part Netflix limited series, which debuts globally on March 20.
Inspired by the book, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, written by Walker’s great-great-granddaughter A’Lelia Bundles, the Netflix four-part limited series, Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker, brings the uplifting story of this cultural icon to the screen for the first time. Against all odds, Walker overcame post-slavery racial and gender biases, personal betrayals, and business rivalries to build a ground-breaking brand that revolutionized black haircare, as she simultaneously fought for social change.
Blair Underwood and Octavia Spencer in the Netflix limited series SELF MADE: INSPIRED BY THE LIFE OF MADAM C.J. WALKER
The limited series also stars Blair Underwood as her husband C.J. Walker, Tiffany Haddish as her daughter Lelia, Carmen Ejogo as Walker’s business rival Addie Munroe, Garrett Morris as Walker’s father-in-law, Kevin Carroll as her longtime lawyer Freeman Ransom and Bill Bellamy as Ransom’s cousin Sweetness.
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker produced by SpringHill Entertainment and Wonder Street in association with Warner Bros. Television is helmed by co-showrunners Elle Johnson & Janine Sherman Barrois, along with writer and co-executive producer Nicole Jefferson Asher, directed by Kasi Lemmons and DeMane Davis, and executive produced by Janine Sherman Barrois, Elle Johnson, Maverick Carter, LeBron James, Octavia Spencer, Mark Holder, Christine Holder, Kasi Lemmons, and Jamal Henderson.
Netflix will release the four-part limited series on March 20. Here is the full trailer and poster.
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