Age: 39
female
Teyonah Parris (/tiˈɒnə/ tee-ON-ə; born September 22, 1987) is an American actress. A graduate of Juilliard School, she began acting in 2010. Her first prominent roles were in the drama series Mad Men (2012–2015) and in the independent film Dear White People (2014). She then appeared in the drama series Empire (2014), Spike Lee's crime comedy Chi-Raq (2015), and the drama film If Beale Street Could Talk(2018). In 2021, Parris starred in the horror film Candyman and began portraying Monica Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with the Disney+ series WandaVision. She has since featured in the black comedy series No Good Deed (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Teyonah Parris, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set in 2089, Meridian is a science fiction action film about first contact diplomacy — the most consequential negotiation in human history. Commander Avital Ben-David, 41, leads the United Earth Diplomatic Corps' first formal contact team tasked with negotiating a territorial treaty with the Vorath — a non-human species who have been observing Earth for forty years and have decided, based on that observation, that humanity is worth engaging. The Vorath are not hostile, but they are alien in ways that make human assumptions about communication, trust, and intent continuously misleading. Avital must negotiate across a conceptual gulf that no human has successfully crossed while simultaneously managing the political pressures of Earth's fractured power blocs who want the treaty to serve their specific interests. The romance with Dr. Emeka Osei — the team's first-contact linguist — is built on the specific intimacy of two people who are the only humans who understand what they are doing and what it means.
