Age: 56
female
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
When a famed socialite daughter of a wealthy family is abducted, her family and the media are scrambling to locate her. While in captivity, she realizes that many other girls are missing as the same time, but the media and public never called for their rescue- and she has to rescue them and herself while seeking justice for the other victims and finding the dark truth. This film is a satire of rescue-the-girl action thrillers such as Taken, Man on Fire, The Call, or any action thriller with Liam Neeson or Nicolas Cage. Much like in real-life high-profile abduction cases, these movies often fall with the trope of missing white woman syndrome- the vast majority of these movies have victims that are white, blonde, wealthy, and innocent- while victims who are people of color and/or poor are often left in the shadows. This film will instead be a psychological neo-noir thriller focusing on the victim's point of view rather than that of the rescuer, in addition to being filmed in black-and-white a la Sin City.
