Madeleine Gardella
1994 (31 год)She began her performance career early, securing her first theater role at age 11 in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Gardella has trained at esteemed ballet schools, including The Rock School for Dance Education, American Ballet Theatre, and the Bolshoi. She enjoyed a successful ballet career, taking on principal roles in productions like "Coppelia" and "The Nutcracker." In 2017, she shifted her focus from dance to acting while also pursuing her college education. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Digital Journalism and Media from Pennsylvania State University in December 2020.
Gardella appears in Season 2 of "Leverage: Redemption" and in Tubi's "Crushed," where she plays the character 'Jill.' Her other notable roles include Sarah in the award-winning indie film "All About Sex" and 'Bay' in the short film "Don't Write Me Off."
In the fall of 2022, just two weeks into her MFA in the Producers Program at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, Gardella was cast in Francis Ford Coppola's film "Megalopolis." In this film, she shares the screen with notable actors such as Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Laurence Fishburne, Jon Voight, Talia Shire, Shia LaBeouf, Jason Schwartzman, and Dustin Hoffman. While specific plot details are under wraps, the film revolves around an architect's vision to recreate New York City as a utopian society following a disaster.
Pure
Hannah Macpherson
Jahkara Smith, McKaley Miller
Teen girls perform a secret ritual at a Purity Retreat and, when one of them begins to see a supernatural entity, the terrifying question becomes what is more dangerous: the demon they’ve unleashed, or the pressure of their controlling fathers.
Pure
Megalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito
In an alternate United States, New Rome is controlled by elite patrician families who secretly indulge in decadence while the rest of the population lives in poverty. Architect Cesar Catilina, a Nobel Prize winner for inventing Megalon, a revolutionary building material, harbors a secret ability to stop time. Despite his success, Cesar is haunted by guilt over his wife's mysterious disappearance. Cesar's vision of a utopian "Megalopolis" clashes with the city's leadership, particularly District Attorney Franklyn Cicero. Cesar forms a bond with Cicero's daughter, Julia, who shares his unique time-stopping ability. As political tensions and personal betrayals rise, Cesar fights to build Megalopolis while facing opposition, tragedy, and unrest, determined to create a better future for New Rome.
Megalopolis
