
Age: 51
female
Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is an American actress. In television, she is known for her leading roles in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), the medical drama ER (2003–09), the drama thriller Bloodline (2015–17), and the tragicomedy Dead to Me (2019–present), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also guest starred in the period drama Mad Men (2013–15), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Her voice work includes the animated series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010–13), Regular Show (2012–15), Gravity Falls (2012–16), and Sanjay and Craig (2013–16). In film, Cardellini is best known for her portrayal of Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its sequel Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004), and her supporting roles in Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Grandma’s Boy (2006), Kill the Irishman (2011), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), The Founder (2016), Green Book, A Simple Favor (both 2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). She also starred in the drama Return (2011), earning an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead nomination, the comedies Daddy's Home (2015) and Daddy's Home 2 (2017), and the horror film The Curse of La Llorona (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Cardellini, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Linda Cardellini

Evelyn Whitmore
for Evelyn Whitmore in Signs Preceding the End of the World
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi

Makina is a young woman who moves with quiet precision and sharp instincts. When word reaches her that her brother vanished somewhere in the United States, she steps into the desert with a single mission: cross the border and bring him home. The journey pulls her into a world built on whispers, debts, and shifting loyalties. She slips through cartel safe zones, rides with a coyote who may or may not be trustworthy, and survives a landscape where every shadow hides a threat. The border is not a line. It’s a maze. A test. A place where people vanish without a sound. On the other side, the world feels familiar and foreign at the same time. New streets, new rules, and a language that cuts off pieces of her identity. Makina is forced to navigate neighborhoods where migrants live in the cracks, where authority watches from behind dark glass, and where the wrong move can send someone back across the desert… or worse. But Makina doesn’t break. She observes. She adapts. She pushes forward. As the search draws her deeper into this strange new world, the trail toward her brother becomes more tangled, and Makina must decide how far she is willing to go — and how much of herself she is willing to lose — to bring her family together again. A tense, atmospheric journey through borders seen and unseen. A story about survival, identity, and the quiet strength of someone who refuses to disappear.

