Age: 27
female
Samantha Rose Baldwin was born and raised in the heart of Upstate New York. After growing up as a farm girl in the middle of nowhere, she discovered her love for entertainment after spending time on the set of Consumed, a Maja Fernqvist short film from the Twilight Storytellers campaign in 2015. From there, she took a liking to modeling and signed with a few Western New York boutique agencies after receiving immense support from her mother Catherine, pharmacist, and her father Michael, farmer. But when the 7 hour commute back and forth for castings, print jobs, and runway shows became too taxing, Samantha and her father picked up their life on the farm and moved out to Los Angeles to pursue the theatrical side of the industry. Since, Samantha has performed in a wide array of shows, films and more, and has continued to pursue modeling in the form of print campaigns and commercials. Samantha made her film debut in the independent film, Relish and is now based on the East Coast where she made her television debut on HBO Max's iconic Gossip Girl and her stage debut as a part of the original cast of Stranger Things: The Experience. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Marie Burns
In 479 BC, one year after the Battle of Thermopylae, Dilios, a hoplite in the Spartan Army, begins his story by depicting the life of Leonidas I from childhood to kingship via Spartan doctrine. Dilios's story continues and a Persian herald arrives at the gates of Sparta demanding "earth and water" as a token of submission to King Xerxes—the Spartans reply by throwing the envoy and his escort into a deep well. Leonidas then visits the Ephors, proposing a strategy to drive back the numerically superior Persians through the Hot Gates. His plan involves building a wall in order to funnel the Persians into a narrow pass between the rocks and the sea: negating the Persian advantage in numbers, and giving Greeks heavy infantry the advantage over the vast waves of Persian light infantry. The Ephors consult the Oracle, who decrees that Sparta will not go to war during the Carneia. As Leonidas angrily departs, an agent from Xerxes appears, rewarding the Ephors for their covert support.
