Age: 39
female
Jurnee Diana Smollett (born October 1, 1986) is an American actress. Smollett began her career as a child actress appearing on television sitcoms, including On Our Own (1994–1995) and Full House (1992–1994). As an adult, Smollett has starred in the films The Great Debaters (2007), Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), and Birds of Prey (2020). Her television roles include the NBC sports drama Friday Night Lights (2009–2011), the HBO fantasy horror drama True Blood (2013–2014), the WGN America period drama Underground (2016–2017), and the HBO horror drama Lovecraft Country (2020). For the latter, she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
After a decade of hiding, mutants are finally encouraged to step forward into the real world and not be afraid anymore. Due to the fear of what the rest of the world would do if they found out, many mutants stayed hiding in plain sight if they could, others were forced out into the darkness where they could not be seen. Charles Xavier is approached by the government who inform him that they had been keeping his old friend Erik Lensherr in a high security prison for the last couple years after discovering his powers, the government tell Charles that he has just recently escaped among all the talk of mutants being among the community. Charles becomes worried that Erik may use the popularity of mutants to his advantage and create a team of mutants to go to war against the humans with him. Charles uses Cerebro to encourage other mutanout there to come forward and join him at his school for gifted children where he will teach them to control their abilities and gear them toward defeating Erik and his team of mutants. Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Hank McCoy and Bobby Drake are some of the only mutants who had the courage to come forward to Charles while others stayed in hiding. Charles trains them up as a team to practice for whatever Erik has up his sleeve, while also trying to protect themselves and other mutants from the rest of the world who see mutants as a problem and something to exterminate.
