Age: 56
female
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Octavia Spencer
The Queen of Hearts
for The Queen of Hearts in ALICE IN THE METRO UNDERGROUND
Suggested by mr95
Alice is a 19-year-old woman living in the city, feeling stifled by the immense pressure from her family to pursue a safe, traditional path she doesn't want. While escaping a tense family gathering in a bustling community park, she spots a man in an impossibly sharp, pastel suit sprinting toward an abandoned, boarded-up subway station. Intrigued, she follows him inside. As she steps onto a broken escalator, the ground gives way. Alice falls through a kaleidoscopic, gravity-defying tunnel of graffiti, neon lights, and floating retro urban artifacts, landing in the heart of "The Metro Underground"—a parallel, magical city populated entirely by eccentric, stylish Black characters. To get back home, Alice is told she must follow the "Neon Transit Line" to the Heart District to see the Queen of Hearts, a legendary music mogul and ruler who holds the key to the gateway. Along the way, Alice navigates a series of surreal Burroughs: she learns self-worth from a jazz-legend Caterpillar, escapes a mind-bending, endless block-party hosted by the Mad Hatter, and is guided through the shadows by the slick, illusion-weaving Cheshire Cat. When she finally reaches the Queen, Alice discovers the ruler is a tyrannical diva who suppresses the city's creativity. To earn her freedom, Alice must face the Queen in a high-stakes musical showdown, finally finding her own powerful voice to liberate both herself and the citizens of the Underground.
