Age: 56
female
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Jinny Hawkins is secretly reading the story of the notorious Captain Flint, the creator of the legendary "treasure planet", past her bedtime. Samuel (Jinny's fatherther) bursts in, emphazising that he thought she had fallen asleep "an hour ago". 12 years later, Jinny still believes in the stories of Treasure Planet but has become quite a troublemaker, rebel, and hoodlum (in the eyes of other people) with a hobby for 'solar-surfing,' a combination of sky-surfing and wind-surfing on a rocket powered board with a solar sail. In this case she happened to be surfing in a restricted construction area, where she got caught by robotic cops. She is escorted to the Benbow (an inn run by Jinny's father), much to her father's disappointment, and retires to the inn's roof, where she overhears Samuel venting his frustration with Jinny's behavior to the family's canine friend, Dr. Delena Doppler. That night, a spaceship crash-lands on the port outside the inn and an old, injured salamander-like being clambers out. Her name is Billy Bones. Jinny helps her inside, and the alien hands her a mysterious sphere, warning her to "Beware the cyborg" in her last breaths. Bones soon dies and suddenly, a bunch of marauding pirates ambush the inn, burning it to the ground whilst trying to find the sphere. Jinny, her father, and Delena manage to escape along with the spherical orb which later turns out to be a holographic map, showing the way to the one and only Treasure Planet.
