One of the first strong female leads in T.V. history was Lucille Ball. She got the ball going for accepting that females are strong enough to be a lead on a show. So it would b wrong of me not to start talking about specific people if she wasn't the first.
http://www.biography.com/people/lucille-ball-9196958
Lucille was born August 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York to Henry "Had" Durrell Ball and his wife Desiree, she was only 3 years old when her electrician/telephone lineman died of typhoid. later she would be separated from her younger brother Fred because her mother married Ed Peterson. Ed took Lucy's mom and she was left her with Ed's family. when she was 15 she dreamed of doing something big, she went to a NYC drama school but was shy and the teachers said she was "wasting her time and ours" she decided to stay in New York and became a model and in the 1930's she went to Hollywood for more acting opportunities, she got what she wanted because Ball appeared in 72 movies during her long career. In Dance, Girl, Dance, she was introduced her to a handsome Cuban bandleader named Desi Arnaz after a couple of movies they grew madly in love and married. Her groundbreaking work in comedy paved the way for future stars such as Mary Tyler Moore, Penny Marshall, Cybill Shepherd and even Robin Williams.
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