Age: 96
female
June Squibb (born November 6, 1929) began working in musical theatre at the St. Louis Muny and trained at the Cleveland Play House, and at the HB Studio. While at the Cleveland Play House, she performed in productions of Marseilles, The Play's the Thing, Goodbye, My Fancy, The Heiress, Detective Story, Antigone, Ladies in Retirement and Bloomer Girl. In 1958, she played Dulcie in The Boyfriend Off-Broadway. In 1959, she starred in an Off-Broadway revival of Lend an Ear with Elizabeth Allen. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of Gypsy starring Ethel Merman, taking over the role of stripper Electra in 1960. Squibb appeared in The Happy Time, which opened in 1968 and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical. In-between these periods, she did modelling work for romance novels and appeared in commercials. In 1995, she appeared in the play Sacrilege on Broadway, which starred Ellen Burstyn. Squibb played many roles in national tours, regional theatre, summer stock and off-Broadway. In 2012, she played Stella Gordon in Dividing the Estate at the Dallas Theater Center in which she received standout reviews. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Alexander Payne's film Nebraska (2013). In 2015, she was inducted into the Cleveland Play House Hall of Fame. Squibb will appear in the Disney+ film Godmothered.
June Squibb
Grandmother Tuule
for Grandmother Tuule in The Hollow Crown of Thorns
Suggested by orz1992
In the mountain-locked kingdom of Virelle, the crown does not pass by birthright — it chooses. For centuries, the ruling bloodline has obeyed the ancient rite of inheritance: when the reigning monarch weakens, the Crown of Saint Aerem awakens, selecting the next sovereign with a whisper no one hears but the chosen. It is an honor. It is a curse. And it always costs more than it gives. When the current king descends into madness and the heir dies mysteriously, the crown falls not on a noble’s head, but on Elian, an orphaned scribe with no claim and strange dreams. As Elian is dragged into the palace's suffocating world of ritual, decay, and shadows-that-move-wrong, they begin to uncover a horrific truth: the crown is a prison for something ancient. Something that feeds. And it is waking faster this time. With war on the horizon and whispers in the walls, Elian must choose between breaking the cycle — or becoming its next vessel.
