Age: 52
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Paula Garcés (born March 20, 1974) is a Colombian American film and television actress, known for her appearance in films such as Clockstoppers and Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and on TV shows such as CSI: Miami, The Shield, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, The Sopranos , Oz and Warehouse 13. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paula Garcés, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Audre Holloway arrives in New York at 28 with a degree in art history, a family trust fund she refuses to touch, a portfolio of lifestyle photographs she took herself, and a single letter of introduction to Marcus Chen, the founder of a boutique luxury lifestyle brand. She does not ask for a job. She presents herself as an inevitability. Marcus, intrigued by her confidence, hires her as a consultant, expecting three months. Five years of the show's narrative will pass, but season one covers only those first eight months as Audre systematically transforms herself from a decorative presence into the strategic brain behind Chen & Company's explosive growth. She befriends the city's most interesting women — a restaurateur, an architect, a gallery curator — and her circle becomes the inspiration for Chen & Company's aesthetic. She navigates the complicated dynamics of being an ambitious woman in a luxury business where beauty is expected but ambition is suspicious. She meets Julian Thorne, a venture capitalist with old family money and newer acquired power, and begins a relationship that reads as partnership until you look closely enough to see the cracks. By season end, Audre has orchestrated a rebrand so complete that Chen & Company's clients cannot quite remember what it was before she arrived.
