Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins is an American actress, athlete and public speaker from Allentown, Pennsylvania. She began modeling in 1999, opening a London show for designer Alexander McQueen, and later became a face of L'Oréal Paris and a global ambassador for the brand in 2011. Her acting career started in 2002 with Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3, in which she played six characters; she also appeared in his River of Fundament. Her film credits include Young Ones (2014), Rob the Mob (2014) and Appropriate Behavior, and she had television roles in Crossbones and Stranger Things. She also speaks on body, identity, design and innovation, and her talks at TED conferences have been translated into 42 languages; TED named her an All-Star in 2014. In 2017 the National Women's Hall of Fame inducted her, and in 2018 Northeastern University gave her an honorary degree and she delivered its commencement address.