Age: 27
female
Annalise Basso is an American film and television actress and model. She is the youngest child of Marcie Basso and has an older brother and sister named Gabriel and Alexandria. Most of her initial roles have been on television commercials or small one time roles on different shows. Her first role that caught the attention of people was her role as Eden Hamby on True Blood. In 2009, she played a main role in the TV movie Love Takes Wing from the Love Comes Softly series. When she was 10, she took part in the Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? where she played one of the students. Basso's first lead role in a feature film is in D.J. Caruso's Standing Up, a coming of age flick based on a book by Brock Cole called The Goats, which debuted at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
In the wake of a catastrophic storm, Cora sets off with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register her son's birth. Her husband, Gordon, a local doctor, respected in the community but a terrifying and controlling presence at home, intends for her to name the infant after him. But when the registrar asks what she'd like to call the child, Cora hesitates... Spanning thirty-five years, what follows are three alternate and alternating versions of Cora's and her young son's lives, shaped by her choice of name. In richly layered prose, The Names explores the painful ripple effects of domestic abuse, the messy ties of family, and the possibilities of autonomy and healing.
