Age: 61
female
Vivica A. Fox (born July 30, 1964) is an American actress and producer. She began her career on Soul Train and played roles on the daytime television soap operas Days of Our Lives and Generations. In prime time, she starred opposite Patti LaBelle in the NBC sitcom Out All Night. Fox's breakthrough came in 1996, with roles in Independence Day and Set It Off. Fox has starred in the films Booty Call, Soul Food, Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Kingdom Come, Two Can Play That Game, and Boat Trip. She had leading roles in the short-lived tv shows Getting Personal and City of Angels as well as Missing, for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Fox starred in the movie series The Wrong... for Lifetime and played Candace Mason on Empire. Fox made her directorial debut with First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story about the First Lady of the Black Mafia Family in Detroit.
She dominated every sport she ever played. Retirement was supposed to be the next chapter. Instead it became the hardest fight of her life. Nadia Rivers is 34 and has just retired from professional athletics — a decorated career spanning two Olympic gold medals in athletics, a stint in professional basketball, and a decade at the peak of multiple sports. She is, by any measure, the greatest female multi-sport athlete of her generation. Retirement, which she approached as the next chapter, turns out to be its own kind of war. Without the structure of sport, Nadia must confront everything athletics allowed her to avoid: a relationship she sacrificed for training, a family dynamic she left unresolved when she went professional at seventeen, a body she has pushed past its limits for twenty years. When her former coach approaches her about mentoring a young prodigy — a seventeen-year-old girl with generational talent and none of the emotional tools to handle it — Nadia discovers that what she has to offer goes far beyond athletic instruction. The series is about what happens after the peak: identity after achievement, love that was deferred too long, and the specific grief of no longer being the best in the world at the thing that defined you. Season 1 — The After Nadia retires. Identity crisis. The prodigy arrives. The show's quietest, most emotionally precise season. Season 2 — The Forward Kayla's first major competition under Nadia's mentorship. Jordan's return. Sandra's difficult reconciliation. Nadia finding out who she is without the title.
