Age: 24
female
Riele Downs booked her first feature film role in the late John Singleton's Four Brothers (2005), opposite Mark Wahlberg and Terrence Howard. Riele went on to book multiple film roles including The Best Man Holiday (2013) and The Gabby Douglas Story (2014). Riele stars as Charlotte, the no-nonsense voice of reason on CBS's superhero comedy series Henry Danger (2014-20) which had a successful 121 episode run, which won multiple awards, including her 2020 Kid's Choice Awards nomination for "Favorite Female TV Star". Her animation credits include the award-winning Peep and the Big Wide World, The Adventures of Kid Danger and Captain Man, and S.A.L.E.M. Riele (ree-EL) Downs, a Canadian actress of African American, Cuban and Native American descent, is a film and television actress, visual artist, fashion designer and dancer, who is known most recently for the title role in the 20th Century/Disney+/Hulu feature Darby and the Dead (2022).
On the surface, the series focuses on five average human teenagers and an alien (from a race called the Andalites) who is average by his people's standards who, with the power of shapeshifting ('morphing') granted upon them by alien technology, attempt to prevent the takeover of Earth by a race of parasitic aliens called Yeerks. To gain a new shapeshifting power, they must touch the chosen animal to absorb a length of the animal's DNA, enabling them to morph into that animal. As a whole, however, the series does not focus so much on kids who turn into animals to battle evil aliens while keeping up with their homework so much as it focuses on how their war affects and changes them. These effects and changes are what separate this series from other children's, term used loosely, books and series. Children's is used loosely because while the series was marketed to children, the story was far more mature than an average 9-12 year old, the target demographic, could handle, a point clearly demonstrated by the majority of reviews at Amazon.
