Growing up, Octavia Spencer remembers being inspired by the story of Madam C.J. Walker — one of America's first black, female, self-made millionaires. Now, Spencer is starring as Walker in the new Netflix series 'Self Made.'
I've always felt that her story was germane to who I am as a black woman," Spencer says., one of America's first black, female, self-made millionaires. Born on a plantation in 1867, Walker eked out a living washing clothes for white families before building an empire selling hair care and makeup products to women of color.
Now the Oscar-winning actor is helping tell Walker's story to a broader audience, starring as the businesswoman in the Netflix limited seriesSpencer says she can relate to Walker's effort to provide black women with beauty products that were designed specifically for them.
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