“I was jealous because they had all this time to make mistakes and figure themselves out,” she recalls. So, she packed up her things and moved to Paris, where she found herself as a 25-year-old among teenagers in her acting courses. She knew that if she wanted to leave academia behind and pursue acting, she had to go all in. “I had a resume with high school plays and other little things that I had done here and there,” she tells W of her early acting experience. I mean, it takes strength to turn your back on six years of academic studies for a career in which you are (to be frank) technically woefully unprepared. There’s a strength to both Thomas and Danbury. In a way, she is a lot like her Queen Charlotte character, Lady Agatha Danbury, a bright woman ahead of her time, using the tools available to her to push our world into the direction she sees fit. The 28-year-old speaks eloquently, making points that get you nodding aggressively in agreement. Thomas, who uses she/they pronouns, holds herself with an authority reserved for ladies of the ton (or children of diplomats, which she so happens to be). You could know all of this about her, but it still wouldn’t prepare you for the person Thomas truly embodies when in front of you. If that’s the case, you’ve already heard her unique story, the time she spent at Carnegie Mellon and then Yale, getting a bachelor’s degree in biophysics and a masters in public health her decision to leave that all behind and move to Paris to pursue her passion for acting without telling anyone, even her mother her impressive resume that includes refugee work, TedTalks, app creation. Maybe you’ve read about her, followed the press she completed in promotion of the show. ![]() Or perhaps you’ve already binged all six episodes of Queen Charlotte and experienced Thomas as the young Lady Danbury, with her large eyes that speak even when the actor has no lines. By now, you’ve likely come across Arsema Thomas-her face is splashed across the Netflix app, advertising the latest Shondaland production, Queen Charlotte, a prequel to the hit Bridgertonseries.
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