Age: 28
female
Hope Elizabeth Soberano (born January 4, 1998) is an American and Filipino actress. Known for playing supporting characters in dramas and comedies as a teenager, she has since expanded her repertoire to leading roles in television and film. She has received several accolades, including a FAMAS Award, a PMPC Star Award, and six Box Office Entertainment Awards. Tatler magazine named her one of the most influential people in Asia in 2022 and 2023. Soberano found commercial success in several romantic films, including My Ex and Whys (2017), for which she earned the Box Office Entertainment Award for Box Office Queen. Attempting to shed her image as an on-screen couple with Gil, she sought roles in other genres and debuted as a voice actress in the animated series Trese (2021). In 2022, she returned to California to pursue an acting career in Hollywood and has since starred in the horror comedy film Lisa Frankenstein (2024). Soberano has been described by media publications as one of the most beautiful Filipino actresses of her generation. She is vocal about gender equality, women's rights, and mental health.
Her father told a lie that could kill her. A strange man offered a deal she couldn't refuse. The king wanted gold. She wanted to survive. Only one of them got what they deserved. Mira, 20, is the daughter of a miller who — in a moment of catastrophic boasting — tells the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king imprisons her with a room full of straw and the promise that she will die if it is not gold by morning. A strange little man named Rumpelstiltskin appears and spins the gold — for a price: first her necklace, then her ring, then her firstborn child. The film reimagines the tale as a political survival story: Mira is not simply a passive victim but a young woman with no good options navigating a king who is both her captor and her suitor. The Rumpelstiltskin of this telling is not simply a villain — he is a fae creature of iron contractual logic whose deals are always honored to the letter, whose tragedy is that he wanted something living and made a deal for it that can only produce grief. When Mira becomes queen and her child is born, the contract comes due. The name-guessing is her final act of self-determination. Act One — The Lie The miller's boast. The prison room. The first deal. The specific economy of what Mira has already spent. Act Two — The Gold Two more nights. Two more deals. The king's proposal. Mira calculating survival at every moment. Act Three — The Name The child born. The contract due. Rumpelstiltskin's three-day grace. Mira's intelligence finding the name. His face when she speaks it.
