ALIYAH COOPER –
Birthdate: December 24th, 1988 (29) Gender and Pronouns: Female, she/her Hometown: Montreal, Canada. Neighborhood: Upper East Side, Manhattan Occupation: Actress Faceclaim: Shelley Hennig Trigger Warnings: None
BIOGRAPHY –
Kris Cooper was surely a miracle woman birthing five children at once. Instead of just one, she ended up having quintuplets. Two boys and three girls were born on Christmas Eve in Montreal, Canada. To say the least, they were in the public eye from the moment they were born. They had a happy childhood that anybody would have been lucky to have. The small community they lived in meant that there was no shortage of people watching over them. Although they seemed to be a spectacle at first, the people around them eventually just got too used to the five Cooper kids running about. The place was more home than they could ever imagine. Well, that was until their father lost his law firm and their mother’s gallery was in shambles. Aliyah didn’t want to move, but her tiny little mind told her that she was going to love the bright and shiny lights of New York. Little did she know that people would be way less friendly than they had been in Montreal. The quintuplets were bullied and Aliyah wanted nothing to do with any of the people she was being forced to be around in school. Yes, things eventually changed as they usually did, but why would she forget how people treated her? Especially when the Cooper siblings got their own reality show. They were still children when cameras were thrust into their faces for the first time. The things were meant to film every waking moment of their lives. When Aliyah woke up, a camera was there to see how she started her day. When she went to hang out with a ‘friend’, a camera was there. She would have been lying if she said she didn’t love the attention. All of the spotlight was on her and her family. What more could she ask for? Her teen years were all captured for the show and there was no shortage of people she could cal a friend. Sure, they probably weren’t genuine or trustworthy in the slightest, but why would she have cared? What mattered was that there were people that wanted to be around her. The only problem was that the show would eventually run its course. By the time she was finishing high school, the show was airing its series finale that featured the quintuplets graduating and waiting for a future. Aliyah couldn’t just step out of the spotlight though. Yes, the show may have been over and she didn’t have cameras constantly watching her every move anymore, but that wasn’t going to stop her from putting a camera in front of her. An actress was what she told her mother she wanted to be. And, of course, her mother Kris welcomed that with open arms. To Aliyah, her mother was her best friend and it was easy to get the woman to be her manager when the time arose to start looking for opportunities. She was immediately put into the best acting classes money could buy, but that wasn’t something she really needed. Drama dripped from her pores as if it was what she was meant to do all her life. So of course she nailed her first audition. It was for a small role in a television show called Degrassi in Canada, but it was just a small taste of what she was truly capable of. Audition after audition, role after role, leading lady after leading lady. she was set to be a star. The only thing still looming over her head was the fact that her siblings were still around. Four other people who had the same birthday as her and shared the same genes as her meant that she would always have to worry about the media asking about them. Is Annalise writing her next book? How’s Ashton? Aliyah loathed having sisters because she always felt like they were competition. She was always trying to be the best of the three of them. That was why she got along with her brothers more. There was nothing to battle them for. Aaron was a lawyer and Adrian was just Adrian. She only got asked about them when she posted a picture of one of them on Instagram. It wasn’t that she hated her sisters. No, it wasn’t that at all. She simply just wanted to be better than them in every way. With every movie or television role, she was gaining a little bit more popularity than them. And that was all she cared about at the end of the day. Nevertheless, she still spent time with her family as much as possible. After all, she still loved them. A successful acting career wasn’t going to stop that. She even went so far as to say yes to starring in her sister’s show, Gossip Girl. She had never actually read the book since she was always too busy reading scripts, but she figured it would be decent enough. The premise intrigued her, that is. Playing Blair Waldorf, the queen bitch, was just the role of a lifetime. And, with the popularity steadily creeping up day by day, Aliyah was gaining the attention she so desperately craved. Sure, it was based off of Annalise’s book, but who ever paid attention to that anyway? People cared more about the actors bringing the story to life, didn’t they? That was what her mother nodded to when she had asked while the older woman had her eyes towards her phone at least. Something just didn’t feel the same though. All of the acting gigs she got and none of them felt real enough. Well, the role basically made for her that her sister wrote was, but that was different. No, she wanted more. It was almost as if luck had went her way when the producers of Catching Up With the Coopers showed up again. Hearing that they wanted to revive the show was like music to Aliyah’s ears. Now all she really needs is for her siblings to jump on board as well. And, boy oh boy, is that going to be the real role of a lifetime. Convincing her siblings that reviving their reality show would be a good idea was going to be tougher than any gig she could ever audition for. With that many headstrong personalities in one room, all hell is certainly going to break loose.
PERSONALITY –
( + ) candid, creative, intelligent ( - ) egotistical, obsessive, tactless.
