Age: 15
male
Julian Hilliard (born 2011) is an American actor, best known for his roles in television and film, including The Haunting of Hill House (2018), WandaVision (2021), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), the latter two in which he portrayed Billy Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Born in Dallas, Texas, Hilliard is the son of actress Arianne Martin and director/writer/producer Justin D. Hilliard. In 2018, Hilliard played Young Luke Crain in the Netflix horror series The Haunting of Hill House, created by Mike Flanagan. His portrayal of the character earned him a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Streaming Series or Film: Young Actor in 2019. The cast was nominated for an OFTA Television Award for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture or Limited Series that same year. In 2021, Hilliard was part of the cast of the Marvel Studios miniseries WandaVision, set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and which aired on Disney+. He played Billy Maximoff, son of Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and the Vision (Paul Bettany), and twin brother of Tommy (Jett Klyne). He later reprised the role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, released in 2022. In 2021, Hilliard was part of the cast of The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the third installment in The Conjuring franchise. He portrayed David Glatzel, a young boy who becomes the centre of a supernatural investigation led by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. Description above from the Wikipedia article Julian Hilliard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
