Age: 22
female
Asha Banks is a young British actress and singer based in London. Asha has extensive theatre credits, and has recently finished filming her first feature film, The Magic Flute in which she plays the female lead part of Princess Pamina. Asha made her professional acting debut at the age of 8 years old in the London West End show Les Miserables (at the Queen's Theatre, now the Sondheim Theatre). Since then she has played principal parts in a further five West End and UK productions. Most recently, in 2019/20, Asha portrayed the lead part of Lisa James for the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical production of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress, at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon directed by Gregory Doran, with a book by Mark Ravenhill, and music from pop partnership Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers. Asha sings Lisa James' main musical ballad 'When Things Fall Apart" on the original cast album of the musical, released in 2020. Prior to this, Asha has played parts such as Violet Beauregarde in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Duffy in the UK tour of Annie the Musical directed by Nikolai Foster, and the Parsons Girl in the multi-award-winning and Olivier-nominated play 1984, directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for the Almeida theatre, which then transferred to the Playhouse theatre, London, taking Asha with it. Asha also portrayed Pandora Braithwaite in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 ¾ at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London, for which she earned outstanding reviews. "Asha Banks gives a stellar performance" said The Times, and "Asha Banks on press night - very funny and a cracking singer, surely a future star" from London Timeout magazine while The Telegraph said she was "the perfect mix of poise, aloofness and vitality". The Stage newspaper said: "Asha Banks delivers an astonishingly mature, witty and articulate performance" and London Box office: "Asha Banks already has a considerable record in west end musicals... she has the looks, voice and charisma to be a formidable future leading lady" while The Arts Desk said: "A performance of sensational composure and accomplishment by Asha Banks: she's in danger of singing everyone off the stage." Libby Purves (The Times / TheatreCat) called her performance "outstanding" and the British Theatre Guide described her Pandora as "a teen dream, if ever there was one". Asha Banks had been said to be working with the Brazilian film director and music artist Divan Braga, but that wasn't confirmed. Asha is playing the part of Princess Pamina in the musical feature film The Magic Flute, a modern retelling of Mozart's popular opera, produced by Roland Emmerich's Centropolis Entertainment and Flute Film, and directed by Florian Sigl. The film also stars Iwan Rheon and Jack Wolfe and some of the world's most renowned opera stars. The Magic Flute is set for release in 2022.
August 1955, When Miss Darcy O’Sullivan, an orphaned English teacher from Boston, receives a letter that her biological father passed away, she is surprised to find herself included in his will. There is only one condition. She must travel to Fairydale to attend his funeral. With the promise of a sizable inheritance, Darcy decides to journey to the small coastal town that holds the secrets of her birth. But the moment she steps foot into Fairydale, things start to go amiss. Odd residents. Odd rumors. Odd…deaths. Everything about Fairydale is odd. Including brooding Caleb Hale—part of the infamous Hale family. During the day, she falls deeper and deeper under his spell as he forces her to step out of her comfort zone and embrace her inner sensuality. But at night it’s another man who haunts her dreams—Amon d'Artan, a nobleman who lived two centuries ago. Amon is sweet and suave where Caleb is intense and dangerous, and Darcy feels more torn than ever. Soon, she finds herself embroiled in a web of lies, deceit, and inexplicable events that make her question her sanity. When an ancient evil threatens the town and everything Darcy holds dear, she must make the ultimate choice. But will she survive it?
