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.
New York City. Present day. Two families control the city's most powerful real estate empires — the Montagues, rooted in Brooklyn's old money and new media, and the Capulets, whose glass towers define Midtown's skyline. Their rivalry is old, brutal, and deeply personal. Street-level fistfights between their employees and associates have already drawn the attention of the NYPD. One more incident, the mayor warns, and both families lose their operating licenses. Romée Montague (20, she/her) is the youngest daughter of the Montague empire — brilliant, impulsive, haunted by a past heartbreak with a woman named Rosie that left her cold and directionless. Her cousin Benny is her best friend, her protector, and her wildest accomplice. To shake Romée out of her funk, Benny drags her, disguised, into a glamorous Capulet rooftop gala. There, Romée sees Jules Capulet (18, he/him) — understated, quietly beautiful, with a sharp wit he keeps carefully hidden from his overbearing mother. They speak. They dance. They don't know each other's names until it's already too late. What follows is five breathless days and nights across the city: secret rooftop meetings, a midnight elopement arranged by Friar Lena (a progressive community chaplain), a duel in a Bronx parking lot that ends in blood, banishment, a desperate plan, a sleeping drug, a delayed message, and a crypt beneath an old Brooklyn cathedral where everything unravels. VERONA does not try to save them. It asks why — in a city of eight million people, with every resource at their fingertips — two young people still chose the oldest, most tragic path. And it answers: because the world around them never gave them a real choice.
