Age: 60
female
Monique Parent (born November 4, 1965) is an American actress. She began her professional acting career in 1990, spending years honing her craft by studying at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milton Katselas and Jeffrey Tambor among others. Monique has worked in live theatre as well as a wide variety of film genres, sci-fi, horror, indie drama and comedy, appearing in well over 130 films as well as the streaming series Magic Funhouse and Anime Crimes Division. After close to 30 years in the film business, Monique has certainly picked up a few tips and tricks in the makeup and hair department and shares what she has learned on her YouTube channel. She focuses on keeping fit and healthy as part of any beauty routine and now has over a quarter million subscribers. Monique is currently working on an instructional book for directors and actors on the intricacies of working with nudity entitled Nudity on Film. She often assists productions by working as a professional Intimacy Coordinator. Miss Parent spoke on an AFI panel about shooting intimate scenes at the Dallas Film Festival, and was awarded the Southern California Motion Picture Council’s “Golden Halo” award in 2016 for achievements in acting.
Monique Parent
Lady Mireth Vane
for Lady Mireth Vane in Dynasty of Thorns
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She was born to a conquered kingdom. She will build the one that conquers back. In the fictional continent of Varentha, where multiple kingdoms have been systematically absorbed by the expanding Throne Empire over three generations, Amara Duskthrone is the last surviving heir of the fallen Kingdom of Keldara. Raised in secret by her aunt among the empire's own nobility — hidden in plain sight as an attendant to the very court that destroyed her kingdom — Amara has spent twenty years learning the empire's language, laws, military strategy, and power structure from the inside. Now grown, she is ready to use everything the empire taught her against it. The series is a political and military epic following Amara's construction of a coalition of conquered peoples, her navigation of court intrigue, her complicated relationship with Prince Caelian — the empire's heir who genuinely wants reform but whose position makes him complicit in its crimes — and her internal reckoning with what kind of ruler she wants to be when (if) she wins. Four seasons trace her rise from hidden attendant to revolutionary general to queen navigating the difficult peace after the war. Season 1 — The Hidden Amara as attendant. The empire in its full power. The first signs of the coalition she will build. Season 2 — The Rebellion Amara reveals herself and begins the war. The coalition grows. Caelian is forced to take a side. Season 3 — The War Full-scale rebellion across multiple kingdoms. Military campaign with political intrigue woven through every episode. Season 4 — The Peace Victory and its complications. Governing is harder than fighting. The series ends on Amara's coronation — and the weight of the crown she spent her life reclaiming.
