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Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (/ˈkiːki/ KEE-kee; born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer, and television personality. She has received numerous accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Time magazine included her on its list of most influential people in the world in 2019. Palmer debuted as a child with roles in the films Barbershop 2: Back in Business and The Wool Cap (both 2004) before achieving her breakthrough role as Akeelah Anderson in the drama film Akeelah and the Bee (2006). Her career progressed with roles in films such as Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Jump In! (2007), The Longshots (2008), and Shrink (2009), and the release of her debut studio album So Uncool (2007). She rose to prominence on Nickelodeon, playing the title character in the sitcom True Jackson, VP (2008–2011), providing the voice of Aisha in the Nickelodeon revival of Winx Club (2011–2014), and headlining the television film Rags (2012). Palmer transitioned to mainstream roles with the VH1 biographical film CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story (2013) and afterwards made her Broadway debut as Ella in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (2014–2015). She has since starred in the Fox satirical horror series Scream Queens (2015–2016), the Epix drama series Berlin Station (2017–2019), and the slasher series Scream (2019). Her film roles include Animal (2014), Pimp (2018), Hustlers (2019), Nope (2022), and One of Them Days (2025), with the last two earning her critical attention. As a singer, Palmer has released five extended plays. In addition to acting, she has hosted the talk shows Just Keke (2014) and Strahan, Sara, and Keke (2019–2020) and the game show Password since 2022. In 2024, she released her second book, Master of Me, a hybrid memoir and self-help manual. Description above from the Wikipedia article Keke Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Set in Classical Athens at the height of Periclean democracy (~440 BC), The Athenian follows Zoe, 24, a Black woman raised by Sophokles the philosopher — not the playwright, a fictional Athenian thinker of his circle — as his intellectual heir. She is wholly Athenian: she speaks the Attic dialect, participates in the philosophical dialogues of the Agora through her father's household, is educated beyond any woman the city officially acknowledges, and has been formed by the most rigorous intellectual culture in the ancient world. The specific paradox of her existence is the drama's engine: Athens is the birthplace of democracy for its male citizens and deeply restrictive of women's public roles. Zoe navigates this with the precision of someone who has read Solon's laws and disagrees with them. Her marriage to Nikias, a moderate democratic politician, creates a partnership that neither anticipated — he married for alliance, finds a co-thinker he cannot manage without. Episode 1 — The Agora's Edge Zoe listening at the edge of the philosophical dialogues she is not officially permitted to join. Everyone in the circle knows she is there. Everyone pretends not to. Episode 5 — Nikias's Problem Nikias realizes that his wife is better at politics than he is. His response to this — after the initial crisis of ego — is the series' turning point. Episode 10 — The Symposium Series finale: Zoe speaks in a mixed symposium for the first time — made possible through Nikias's political cover. What she says changes the conversation in the room.
