Age: 22
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Quvenzhané Wallis (/kwəˈvɛnʒəneɪ/ kwə-VEN-zhə-nay; born August 28, 2003) is an American actress and author. In 2012, she starred as Hushpuppy in the drama film Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the youngest actress to be nominated in the category, as well as the first actor born in the 21st century nominated for an Oscar. She went on to appear in the Steve McQueen film 12 Years a Slave (2013). Wallis starred as Annie Bennett in the 2014 adaptation of Annie, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Wallis is also known for voicing the character Harper in the animated film Trolls (2016); as well as her role as Kyra in the television sitcom Black-ish (2019). As an author, she has published four children's books, Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg!, A Night Out with Mama, Shai & Emmie Star in Dancy Pants! and Shai & Emmie Star in To the Rescue!
Quvenzhané Wallis
Persephone (Kore)
for Persephone (Kore) in Persephone: Queen of Two Worlds
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The most faithful retelling of the Persephone myth ever committed to television. Persephone is portrayed not as a victim of abduction but as a young goddess chafing under the suffocating overprotection of her mother Demeter, drawn to the Underworld by genuine curiosity. She encounters Hades — not as a captor but as an equal: a god who governs with justice, who is deeply lonely in a realm the other Olympians avoid, and who is unpracticed in the expression of what he feels. The pomegranate seeds are her choice — eaten deliberately, having understood their meaning. The series is Persephone's coming-of-age: learning who she is separately from her mother, building her own identity as Queen of the Underworld, and developing a genuine, complicated love with Hades built on mutual respect and intellectual equal footing. Hades throughout is portrayed faithfully to mythology: patient, fair, deeply honorable, and genuinely devoted. He never manipulates, never coerces, never performs drama. His tragedy is simply that he is the god nobody visits willingly, and that the person who finally does changes everything.
