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Stephanie Szostak (born 12 June 1975) is a French-American actress who started her career in the early 2000s. She has since appeared in The Devil Wears Prada and Dinner for Schmucks, as well as apearing in many television series such as Season 8 of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2008) and season 6 of The Sopranos. Szostak is half-French and half-American, and was raised in the suburbs of Paris, France. She moved to the United States to study business at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After graduating, she moved to New York and worked for Chanel in marketing but soon realized she was in the wrong profession and switched to acting after taking some classes. New York Times movie critic Stephen Holden described her as a "smoldering star" when he saw her performance in the 2006 film Satellite. Szostak, her Polish married name, is pronounced "Show-stack". Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephanie Szostak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
London, 1979. The music was dying. She was just beginning. Set in London at the hinge point between the dying of punk and the birth of what would become the New Wave era, Electric Babylon follows Vera Popović, a 22-year-old Yugoslav immigrant who arrived in London at sixteen and has spent six years navigating the city's music underground. She is a singer who hasn't found her sound yet, a woman who has learned to inhabit multiple worlds simultaneously (immigrant London, underground music, the fraying edges of art school culture), and someone burning with ambition she has no clear outlet for. When she falls into the orbit of The Babylon, a fictional Soho music club that becomes the crucible for the era's defining sounds, she finds her voice — but also finds herself entangled with Miles, the club's charismatic owner and her creative antagonist; with Cleo, a Black British singer from Brixton who becomes her closest friend and creative collaborator; and with the broader social upheaval of Thatcher's Britain beginning to close around everything that Electric Babylon represents. The show is a love letter to a specific moment of transformation — musical, political, personal — with Dua Lipa's Albanian heritage deeply embedded in Vera's immigrant experience. Season 1 — The Underground Vera in the London music underground. The Babylon. Cleo. Miles. The sound she is reaching for begins to take shape. Season 2 — The Record The opportunity to record. Thatcher's Britain closing around the club culture. Vera's choice between the career that is offered and the artist she is becoming.
