Age: 43
female
Camara DaCosta Johnson, professionally known as Yaya Alafia (formerly Yaya DaCosta), is an American actress and model. She's best known for her starring role as April Sexton on NBC's Chicago Med, as Andrea Vaughn in Our Kind of People, and as Whitney Houston in the TV movie Whitney. She was the runner-up in Cycle 3 of America's Next Top Model. She eventually went to star as Cassandra in ABC's daytime soap All My Children, as Nico Slater in ABC's comedy-drama Ugly Betty, and as April Sexton on NBC's medical drama Chicago Med. She's also appeared in films including The Kids Are All Right, In Time, The Messenger, The Butler, And So It Goes, and The Nice Guys.
In 2014, Antón Castillo, the son of deposed former president Gabriel Castillo, is elected president of Yara and promises stability with the creation of "Viviro", a new cancer treatment drug developed from Yara's tobacco. Seven years later, he announces a draft "lottery" to enslave workers for the tobacco fields. As the Fuerzas Nacionales de Defensa (FND), the country's armed forces, begins rounding up poor citizens in the capital city of Esperanza, Dani Rojas joins with friends Lita Torres and Alejo Ruiz in planning an escape to make a new life in the United States. Alejo is shot and killed, but Dani and Lita escape on a fishing boat with other refugees, bound for Miami. However, the boat is stopped by Antón, who reveals his son Diego Castillo was attempting to sneak away on the boat as well; after retrieving him, Antón orders the boat sunk by gunfire. Dani and Lita survive, but Lita succumbs to her injuries after bidding Dani to seek out the "Libertad" guerilla movement, led by Clara Garcia.
