NAME: Holliday Wells
AGE: 36
GENDER: Female
PROJECT: (currently unattached)
POSITION: Screen Writer
you got two black eyes from loving too hard and a black car that matches your blackest soul
Holliday was raised by a very unconventional couple. The people she viewed as her moms were actually best friends - Olive, her birth mother, had lost Holliday’s father in a bout of cancer before Holliday turned one. She turned to her best friend, Jasmine, for support, and the two raised Holliday as if she were a child they actually adopted. Olive never remarried, and Jasmine wasn’t really interested in the sex thing as a whole, so the little girl received solid parenting despite its peculiarities.
One thing that had always been present in Holliday’s life was a love of books. She devoured each section in her local library like it was a five course meal and she was absolutely starving. By the time she was ready to graduate high school (a year early), she’d read every book available, so Holliday did the next logical thing. She wrote one.
It was a small, whimsical romance novel that under most circumstances would’ve gone unnoticed, but even though she was in New York going to college, her friends back home in Philly didn’t forget about her. They read it, loved it, told their other friends to read it, and suddenly the first time writer had a genuine grassroots triumph on her hands.
Although she was flattered by the positive attention to her book, her classes had showed her that she preferred script writing to novel writing. She set off to California as soon as she had her degree.
invisible to the Hollywood shrine always on the hunt for a little more time
What Holliday didn’t expect was the sheer amount of competition in the city of angels. At every turn there’s a screenwriter trying desperately to sell their stories. She’s worked tirelessly attending festivals, dogging directors, doing any and everything she can to get someone to pick up her writing.
Her big break only came two years ago, when Marilyn Hunter happened upon one of her early scripts in a pile of her then husbands offerings. Marilyn called her up and asked about the story, as it had touched her. When Hawk decided to do the film, Holliday finally got the big break she was hoping for. ‘Don’t Forget’ was a huge critical success, and even garnered her an Oscar nomination for Best Original Script and a few others for costuming and sound editing. Now, she’s working on her next big thing.
CHARLOTTE KELLER: A fling. That’s all it ever was between the two ladies. Charlotte was a heart and soul lesbian and Holliday was just trying to find herself. After finding she was bisexual, Charlotte couldn’t get over the fact that Holliday was still attracted to men as well. Frosty doesn’t even begin to describe the emotions in the room when those two brush past.
MARILYN HUNTER: Holliday had sent her script, detailing a young woman’s journey to find the family that had been taken from her, all over but had no luck. That is, until it caught Marilyn’s eye. They two women met when Hawk accepted the offer and have been friends ever since.
HOLLIDAY WELLS IS PORTRAYED BY STANA KATIC AND IS CURRENTLY OPEN