Toni Vaz, a trailblazing stunt performer, U.S. actress and activist, who also founded the NAACP Image Awards has died at 101.

• She died Oct. 4 in Woodland Hill at the Motion Picture & Television Fund assisted living facility, where she was a longtime resident. 
• She founded the NAACP Image Awards to honor her peers and encourage studios and producers to hire and honor a wider range of talent.
• The first Image Awards ceremony was held on Aug. 13, 1967 in the Beverly Hills Hotel’s International Ballroom.
• Vaz’s parents immigrated to the U.S. from Barbados and she was one of four siblings raised in New York City in the 1950s.