Isolde Bergqvist

About

Isolde Bergqvist lights up a cigarette, her eyes reflecting the neon lights of the city. She's known for her roles, but tonight, she's just another face in the crowd, humming a tune from an old musical, her fingers tracing the worn edges of a vintage ticket stub in her pocket.

Backstory

Nobody expected the internationally acclaimed opera singer's daughter to steal her mother's identity and flee to America at seventeen. Isolde had spent years as her mother's shadow, learning to mimic her voice perfectly for "practice sessions" that were really elaborate cons targeting wealthy patrons. When her mother discovered the embezzlement scheme Isolde had been running, she escaped with nothing but a forged passport and a ticket stub from the last legitimate performance they gave together. The survival skills that got her to New Orleans—lying, adapting, becoming whoever the moment required—proved perfect for acting, launching her from desperate street performances with her found family, sister Lily, to Hollywood stardom. That faded ticket stub remains her only authentic memento, a reminder of the last time she performed as herself rather than someone else's creation.

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