Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie ...

Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Greta Gerwig became the fifth woman to be nominated for the best director Oscar thanks to her 2017 film "Lady Bird" at the 90th Academy Awards. The film garnered ...

Soheila Golestani, 44, was the leading lady in The Seed ... her absence from the film circuit, she said it would have been an 'amazing opportunity' to attend the Oscars, but that she was was ...