Age: 27
female
China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). She then received recognition for starring as Jazmine Payne in the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007–2012; 2020–present) and as Charlotte McKenzie in the film Grown Ups (2010); and became internationally known for starring as Chyna Parks in the Disney Channel television series A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), and as Uma in the Disney Channel films Descendants 2 (2017) and Descendants 3 (2019). In 2018, McClain began starring in The CW superhero series Black Lightning (2018–2021) as Jennifer Pierce / Lightning. She also reprised her character Jazmine Payne on OWN's revival of The Paynes (2018). McClain began her musical career in 2005 as a member of the sister girl group the 3mcclaingirls with her sisters Sierra and Lauryn. Her first professional single was "Your Biggest Fan" with Nick Jonas on the soundtrack album Jonas L.A. (2010). In 2011, McClain signed with Hollywood Records both as a solo artist and with her sister girl group, known as the McClain Sisters. Her debut single as a solo artist was "Dynamite" which peaked at no. 2 on the US Kid Digital Songs, and her second single, "Calling All the Monsters", peaked at no. 1 on the same chart and earned 25,000 downloads within its first week of release. The A.N.T. Farm soundtrack album spent five weeks on the Billboard Kids chart in 2011 and sold 14,000 copies in its first week of release. Billboard also named her the sixth best-selling artist for digital kids' songs in 2012. In 2017, her single "What's My Name" from Descendants 2 peaked on several Billboard charts, and was certified gold, with 500,000 units sold, on November 10, 2017. In June 2020 her sister girl group changed their name to Thriii.
China Anne McClain
Eleanor Beaufort
for Eleanor Beaufort in The Tudor Rose
Suggested by mr95
She was raised in the court of Henry VII. She survived Henry VIII. That alone was extraordinary. Set across the tumultuous transition from Henry VII's reign to the early years of Henry VIII — roughly 1509–1521 — The Tudor Rose follows Eleanor Beaufort, 22, a Black woman raised as a royal ward in the Tudor court, bearing the name of one of the great houses of the Wars of the Roses in recognition of her standing. She has been raised with the full formation of a Tudor royal woman: she speaks Latin, French, and Spanish, plays the virginal, embroiders with unusual skill, and has been shaped by the court of the first unified English monarchy. Henry VII chose her personally as a ward, an act both political (demonstrating the crown's reach across its empire) and genuinely paternal. She is wholly English, wholly Tudor in every dimension of her identity. When Henry VIII ascends the throne — magnificent, dangerous, brilliant — Eleanor must navigate the new king's court while managing an arranged marriage to Sir Thomas Wyndham, a capable but initially unremarkable courtier who grows into something far more significant under the pressure of loving a woman of extraordinary intelligence in a court that finds her presence both fascinating and unsettling. S1E1 — The New King Henry VIII's accession. The court transforming overnight. Eleanor assessing the new order with the precision of someone who has survived the previous one. S1E7 — Thomas's Question Sir Thomas Wyndham asks Eleanor a direct question about what she actually thinks about the court. Nobody has asked her before. Her answer changes both their lives. S2E12 — The Tudor Rose Series finale: The Field of the Cloth of Gold's aftermath. Eleanor's role in its diplomatic preparation — unofficial, unacknowledged. Thomas standing in her study watching her work.
