
Age: 54
female
Carla Gugino (/ɡʊˈdʒiːnoʊ/ guu-JEE-noh; born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. After early roles in the films Troop Beverly Hills (1989), This Boy's Life (1993), Son in Law (1993), and Snake Eyes (1998), Gugino received wider recognition for her starring roles in the Spy Kidstrilogy (2001–2003), Sin City (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), American Gangster (2007), Righteous Kill (2008), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Sally Jupiter in Watchmen (2009), Sucker Punch (2011), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), San Andreas (2015), Gerald's Game (2017), Gunpowder Milkshake (2021), and Lisa Frankenstein (2024). Gugino also starred in the crime drama series Karen Sisco (2003), the science fiction series Threshold (2005–2006), the crime drama series Jett (2019), and the supernatural horror miniseries The Haunting of Hill House (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Carla Gugino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Carla Gugino

Queen Maerethe
for Queen Maerethe 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.