Octavia Spencer starring on Netflix's Madam C.J. Walker, playing America's first black female self-made millionaire

The Hollywood Reporter

The Oscar-winning actress, who is also starring on Apple's Are You Sleeping, will play Sarah Breedlove, a black hair care pioneer at the turn of the century known as Madam C.J. Walker. The eight-episode limited series, based on Breedlove's memoir, promises to "detail the untold and highly irreverent story of Walker and how she overcame hostile turn-of-the-century America, epic rivalries, tumultuous marriages and some trifling family to become America's first black, self-made female millionaire."