Age: 24
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Myles Truitt (born February 1, 2002) is an American actor best known for his breakout role as Eli Solinski in Kin. He also plays Ant in Queen Sugar and Issa Williams on Black Lightning. Myles Truitt became interested in acting at the age of 11. He made his debut as young Ronnie DeVoe in The New Edition Story. He continued acting in minor roles on television until he made his big screen debut in Kin. Truitt felt the role was personal to him stating, "Before I saw the script, I saw the short film...and knowing the story behind it, and how Eli created himself, I knew I wanted the role because I connected with Eli." He appeared on Atlanta as Devin, a boy who experiences bullying. He won the role of Ant on Queen Sugar and appeared in Black Lightning as Issa Williams. Truitt was unfamiliar with the comic book character, but became interested upon appearing in the series.
There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness. Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got interesting. . . Orphaned by the death of her mother and left in the hands of a sadistic foster parent, young Cupcake Brown learned to survive by turning tricks, downing hard liquor, and ingesting every drug she could find while hitchhiking up and down the California coast. She stumbled into gangbanging, drug dealing, hustling, prostitution, theft, and, eventually, the best scam of all: a series of 9-to-5 jobs. A Piece of Cake is unlike any memoir you’ll ever read. Moving in its frankness, this is the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you’ll ever take.
