Age: 41
female
Juliana Harkavy was born in New York City to mother Berta Carela and father Michael Harkavy. At age 9, she moved to Los Angeles, CA, where her only sibling, August Harkavy, was born in 1998, and where her acting career began. Juliana trained at the Young Actors' Space in Los Angeles, CA for 9 years. At age 11, she began landing roles in national commercials, film, television, and theatrical productions. Juliana attended her first year of high school at Le Lycee International de Los Angeles, where she became fluent in French, and did part of her schooling in the South of France. She earned her high school diploma from the Milken Community High School in Los Angeles, where she starred in many of the school's theatrical productions. After high school, Juliana attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she majored in Theater in the Sanford Meisner studio. In addition to acting, Juliana is a published writer and poet, visual artist, musician, and athlete.
Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.
