Age: 42
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Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. As a teenager, she began acting in local theatre productions and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. After graduating from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Plaza made her feature film debut in Mystery Team (2009). She gained wide recognition for her role as April Ludgate on the NBC political satire sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). In film, Plaza had a supporting role in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) and a leading role in Safety Not Guaranteed (2012). From 2017 to 2019, Plaza portrayed the Shadow King and Lenny Busker in the critically praised FX superhero series Legion and produced and starred in the 2017 black comedy films The Little Hours and Ingrid Goes West. She also starred in the romantic comedy Happiest Season and thriller Black Bear (both 2020) and produced and played the title character in the crime film Emily the Criminal (2022). Plaza received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award for her role as a strait-laced lawyer in the second season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus (2022). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023. In 2024, she starred as Rio Vidal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe miniseries Agatha All Along. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aubrey Plaza, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Aubrey Plaza
Miriam Polar
for Miriam Polar in Valley of The Dolls
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In Valley of the Dolls, Anne Welles arrives in postwar New York seeking independence and quickly becomes entangled in the intoxicating world of fame, ambition, and illusion. Working for powerful attorney Henry Bellamy, she befriends rising performer Neely O’Hara and the luminous but vulnerable Jennifer North, forming a trio bound by dreams of success. As Anne falls into a complicated romance with Lyon Burke, she also finds herself navigating the manipulations of industry titan Helen Lawson and the seductive pull of wealth and status. Neely’s meteoric rise to stardom and Jennifer’s troubled relationships mirror Anne’s own emotional entanglements, revealing the hidden costs of glamour as love, betrayal, and ambition collide. As the years pass, success gives way to dependency, heartbreak, and disillusionment. Neely’s career spirals under the weight of addiction and pressure, while Jennifer, searching desperately for love beyond her beauty, meets a tragic fate. Anne, now deeply embedded in the very world she once observed from the outside, struggles to reconcile her ideals with a life shaped by compromise, toxic relationships, and emotional endurance. Reunited with Lyon in a marriage shadowed by infidelity and power imbalance, Anne ultimately confronts the quiet devastation beneath her carefully constructed life. Surrounded by the echoes of lost innocence and broken dreams, she turns to the same “dolls” that claimed her friends, embracing a numbing acceptance of a world where success and suffering are inextricably linked.
