Age: 57
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Gina Maria Prince-Bythewood (born June 10, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. She began her career as a writer for multiple television shows in the 1990s, including the anthology series CBS Schoolbreak Special, for which she was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards. Prince-Bythewood made her feature film directorial debut with Love & Basketball (2000), for which she received an Independent Spirit Award. Her other works include Disappearing Acts (2000), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), and Beyond the Lights (2014). She became the first black woman to direct a major comic-book film The Old Guard (2020). Prince-Bythewood earned nominations for Best Director at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the British Academy Film Awards for The Woman King (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gina Prince-Bythewood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Created by Anansi The Spider, the Tantu Totem gives its wearer all of the powers of the animal kingdom as long as they use the power to protect the innocent. Mari Jiwe McCabe first heard about the totem from her late mother. It came up again in her life again when her uncle General Maksai killed her father for it and total control of the (fictional) African nation of Zambesi. Mari was then adopted by the wealthy American couple the McCabes and raised in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. She grew up to be a famous model and eventually running and designing her own highly successful fashion line. While in Zambesi for the launch of her latest designs, she takes the totem back from her uncle and uses it to become the costumed crime fighter Vixen. Aiding her in her fight against evil are her boyfriend Ben Turner as well as her superpowered friends Vibe, Steel, and Gypsy.
