Age: 22
female
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!
She was brought to the palace as an infant. She grew into its most brilliant diplomat. Now the sea-raiders have come for everything she loves. Set on the island of Thera (present-day Santorini) during the apex of Minoan-influenced Aegean Bronze Age civilization, The Bronze Shore follows Kalantha, 22, a Black woman raised from infancy by the Arkhon of Thera — the island's wealthiest and most powerful trading family. She is entirely of the Aegean world: she speaks the palace language, venerates the Goddess, manages the Arkhon's trading records in the Linear A script, and has been raised as a daughter of the sea-palace. When Mycenaean raiders begin pressuring the island's trade routes, Kalantha is sent as her father's diplomatic emissary to the Mycenaean warleader Leontos — a soldier who speaks in force but listens to intelligence. The series is a political romance about two people negotiating between violence and civilization, set against one of the ancient world's most extraordinary cultural moments. Episode 1 — The Sea-Palace Kalantha managing the trading accounts as raiders' ships appear on the horizon. The series establishes its world fully before introducing the conflict. Episode 5 — The Negotiation Kalantha and Leontos in formal diplomatic session. Their intellectual sparring is the series' first romantic charge. Episode 8 — The Pact Series finale: A treaty that prevents war. Kalantha's authorship is known to both sides. What she and Leontos say in private after the pact is signed is the series' ending.
