ALAQUA COX

COX, A NATIVE AMERICAN ACTOR, BECAME AN INSTANT GLOBAL STAR WHEN SHE JOINED THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE IN 2021 as the unforgiving Maya Lopez, a character who first appeared in Disney+ show Hawkeye. In that series, Maya was revealed to be a deaf gang leader who was determined to seek revenge against the person she believed killed her father. Cox, who is deaf in real life, is now taking centre stage in Echo (pictured), a Marvel Studios series coming to Disney+ in 2023. This origin story revisits Maya, whose ruthless behaviour in New York City catches up with her in her home town, where she must face the past and reconnect with her Native American roots and community if she has any hope of moving forward.

A SMALL-SCREEN VETERAN AFTER RACKING UP A HOST OF CREDITS IN THE PAST DECADE – and still only 30 – Younes will take the lead in Paramount+ original series Last King of the Cross. The Grand Hotel and Tangle star will play John Ibrahim, one of Australia’s most infamous nightclub moguls, in a series inspired by Ibrahim’s autobiography of the same name. The story tracks Ibrahim’s rise from poverty-stricken immigrant with no money, no education and no prospects to ruler of the nightlife in Sydney’s Kings Cross.

FOLLOWING ROLES IN GHOSTS, IT’S KEVIN AND CARDINAL BURNS, Christie has landed her own series on UK broadcaster Channel 4. The comedian, actor and writer will write and star in The Change , a show pitched as “ Shirley Valentine meets Deliverance . With pigs.” She plays Linda, a 50-yearold working-class married mother-of-two who is having an existential crisis –but later discovers it’s the menopause. Dusting off her old Triumph motorbike, she sets off alone to the Forest of Dean in search of an identity and purpose, meeting an array of eccentric locals along the way.