name: Midori Francis
Year: 28
home town: ramson, new jersey
Live now: in the two-bedroom apartment on Los Angeles’ West Side that she moved into last summer.
Claim to Fame: Frances is a queer Asian-American actress who has appeared in HBO’s The Sex Lives of College Girls and Netflix’s young adult series Dash & Lily.to be voices about representation It hasn’t darkened her career. Next month, she will join the cast of “Gray’s Her Anatomy” for its 19th season on ABC, where Gray will play Micah, one of Sloane’s newest residents at her memorial. “Network TV is a whole different beast,” she said. “Millions of people are watching.”
Big break: After graduating from Rutgers University in 2014, Frances aspired to be a stage actor, earning Obie and Drama Desk nominations for Off-Broadway’s The Wolves and Usual Girls. After that, she started doing guest roles in major movies and TV shows.
In 2019, she was offered her first lead role opposite Austin Abrams in ‘Dash & Lily’. of College Girls, playing Alicia, a queer activist on campus. Her character resonates with the show’s LGBTQ audience. “I’ve received some really beautiful messages from young people about feeling seen and represented,” she said.
Latest projects: Earlier this year, Francis received word from his agent that Grey’s Anatomy was looking for interns for their next class. A longtime fan of the show (she rarely missed an episode in middle school), she immediately asked for an audition. “So when Meredith Gray is showing you the operating room, there’s a certain weight to it. You line up.”
Do the following: In addition to Season 2 of ‘Sex Lives’, she made her first feature film ‘invisibleis a thriller due out next year in which she plays a blind woman trying to escape her ex-boyfriend who has committed a murder in the woods. She enjoyed many of her own stunts. “I was jumping in frozen water, climbing through mud and literally climbing walls, and I loved it,” she said. “I couldn’t have been in my element any longer.”
It has been seen: As one of the few queer Asian actresses to appear on network TV, Frances knows how important her presence is. “Of course I can’t represent everyone,” she said. , wants to play a complex, fully fleshed out character, and can only fight.”