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ACTRESS & PRODUCER

CALPERNIA ADDAMS &
ANDREA SPERLING

Calpernia Addams (left) shot to renown after her life story as a Marine Corps medic and transgender woman was dramatized in 2003's Soldier's Girl (she was played by Pushing Daisies' Lee Pace), and she appeared in and coached Felicity Huffman's Academy Award­–winning performance in 2005's Transamerica. Last April, Addams read at the 10th anniversary of The Vagina Monologues in New Orleans alongside Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, and Jennifer Beals, and also starred in her own groundbreaking Logo dating competition series, Transamerican Love Story. This year she was selected by Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays as the spokeswoman for its "This Is Our Love Story" campaign.

In the last three years, independent film producer Andrea Sperling (right) has produced three feature films, including director Jamie Babbit's Itty Bitty Titty Committee. Her previous 20 producing projects include queer faves D.E.B.S., But I'm a Cheerleader, and Gregg Araki's Nowhere, The Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up, and The Living End. If you want to give Sperling an award, you'd better get in line. She's been honored with career laurels, producing awards, and retrospectives by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, the gay film festivals of Vienna, Torino, San Francisco, and Miami, and the IFP West Spirit Awards. Two films on the horizon include Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut, Sympathy for Delicious, and Babbit's next project, Breaking the Girl.

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