name: Quintessa Swindell
Year:twenty five
home town: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Live now: A loft in downtown Los Angeles and a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan’s East Village.
gain fame: Quintessa Swindell is a non-binary transgender actor, DC’sblack adam,’ Mx. Swindell will play Cyclone, a superhero who has the power to control the wind. The film, which opens on October 21 and also stars Dwayne Johnson, is his one of the first instances of a transgender actor being cast in a lead role in his DC production. “My transgender and nonbinary identity is what I am most confident about in my life,” said Swindell, Mx. “That understanding and comfort has made my life easier than ever before.”
Big break: Raised by a single father in Virginia Beach, Mx.Swindell took drama classes Governor’s School for the Arts High school is a time for self-growth. “Acting became a therapy session because any scene I was studying forced me to translate bottled emotions,” Mx. Swindell said.
In 2015, Mx.Swindell moved to New York City to study theater Marymount Manhattan, before dropping out after two years to pursue acting in Los Angeles. A former acting coach put Mx. Swindell got in touch with Gersh’s Agency Talent her agent Robert Meyer Law to star in the 2018 film Granada Her Knights, then as a senior in high school she started her family’s career on HBO. I was working on a problem. “Under treatment.” “I’m always very focused on making every performance or production better than the last,” said Mx. Swindell.
Latest projects: Balancing comic book blockbusters with independent films, Mx. Swindell is also starring in The Master Gardener, a philosophical thriller starring Sigourney Weaver that premiered at the Venice Film Festival last month. increase. (The New York Times critic Manohra Dargis called the film “a solemn, beautiful, romantic, wordy, implausible and moving utopian tale of love, loneliness, violence and redemption.”) “My first thought when I met Sigourney was, ‘How am I going to thank her for all that she has done for me?'” Mx. Said.
Do the following: Max. Swindell is in the early stages of making two films that “say something about the world we live in today.” One is “a movie depicting a female dispatch rider during World War II”. The other is “About Two Female DJ Pioneers at London’s ‘Second Summer of Love'”.
Gender Performance: Max. Swindell found New York City to be a source of identity research. It took place not only in college classrooms, but also in after-school parties like Battle Himun, where gender fluidity was displayed and celebrated. “I was learning things in my gender studies class, but at the same time I was going out at night and seeing in the wild what I was learning.”