Age: 29
female
Anya Chalotra is an actress who has appeared in Wanderlust (2018) and The ABC Murders (2018). Anya trained at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her talent was developed as a pupil at St Dominic’s Brewood, which in 2017 became St Dominic’s Grammar School and has introduced the 11-plus exam for its preparatory pupils. She worked with Carol Molin, the school’s head of expressive arts, and starred on stage in many of the school’s productions. After leaving St Dominic’s sixth form, with Theatre Studies among her three A Levels, Anya trained first at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and then at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The story starts with the sudden disappearance of everybody aged 18 or older from the town of Perdido Beach, causing extreme confusion and chaos amongst those remaining in the town. Classmates Sam Temple, Quinn Gaither, Astrid Ellison, and Edilio Escobar discover an impermeable barrier cutting Perdido Beach off from the outside world; the area within the barrier is subsequently nicknamed "Fallout Alley Youth Zone", shortened to "the FAYZ". Unknown to the others, Sam had earlier discovered his superhuman ability to fire light from his hands capable of burning objects when he is afraid; after reading a journal entry by his mother Connie, a nurse at the nearby Coates Academy, Sam begins to suspect a connection to the disappearances and the barrier. While looking for Astrid's severely autistic four-year-old brother "Little" Pete at a nuclear power plant outside of town,
