all the world's a stage

Name: William Allen "Billy" Fry

Age / DOB: Thirty-seven / July 11, 1910

Gender: Cis male

Pronouns: He/him

Sexuality: Gay

Relationship status: Married to Scarlett Alexander

Occupation: Stage and screen actor

According to his mother, the Fry family always knew their son was destined for great things. At least that's what she says now. The truth is much less sentimental: an oldest son who started out as a bit of a disappointment. The family had long had a foothold in the upstate New York town that they had claimed as home for generation, with a generational family business that Billy was supposed to inherit.

His calling was found in his high school years instead, when he first landed on a stage in a leading role. He was captivated by the medium of acting, the ability to tell a story and become someone, something else. It allowed him to escape his anxiety and frustration, shifting into a confident state of mind. To his father's disappointment, he shifted off the mantle of expectation to go to New York for his artistic pursuits instead. First, drama school; then, the Broadway stage.

He preferred stage work, if he could get it, but there was no denying the allure of the pictures, and so he followed many of the other actors of his generation and headed west, landing in Los Angeles fresh off his stage success. It hardly took long for him to encounter Scarlett Alexander, a sweetheart of the silver screen, and they instantly took a liking to each other. They recognized something in each other, a variance from society's norms and expectations. A friendship blossomed into a mutual promise of protection. They vowed to take care of one another, and proposing only seemed to make too much sense. How the public resist such a beautiful, promising couple, after all?

In truth, Billy knows his relationship with Scarlett, genuinely warm as it is, is only another piece of the facade that is his life. He throws himself into the roles he gets in Hollywood dramas, where his talent truly shines. He can change into anyone and anything that's asked of him on screen, and increasingly, when he's in the public eye, he feels he's playing another role. He's one half of one of Hollywood's it-couples, and he knows how to smile and charm.