{"id":2082932,"date":"2025-10-11T00:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2082932"},"modified":"2025-10-11T00:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T00:21:24","slug":"the-vampire-lestat-has-found-its-akasha-the-queen-of-the-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-vampire-lestat-has-found-its-akasha-the-queen-of-the-damned\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Vampire Lestat\u2019 Has Found Its Akasha, the Queen of the Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The wait is over, we finally know who will tackle the role of Akasha<\/a>, The Great Mother and Queen of the Damned, in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat<\/a>.\u201d \u201cThe Woman King<\/a>\u201d and \u201cBruised<\/a>\u201d actress Sheila Atim<\/a> will don the fangs as the ancient, terrifyingly powerful mother of vampires in the series, which offers the next installment in AMC<\/a>\u2019s stunning \u201cInterview With the Vampire<\/a>\u201d adaptation.<\/p>\n

Atim is a BAFTA-nominated actress whose previous credits also include \u201cDoctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,\u201d \u201cAll Dirt Roads Taste of Salt<\/a>,\u201d \u201cThe Underground Railroad<\/a>,\u201d the 2022 adaptation of \u201cPinocchio<\/a>\u201d and Bryan Fuller<\/a>\u2019s upcoming \u201cDust Bunny<\/a>.\u201d She also took home the Cannes Troph\u00e9e Chopard, which acknowledges…<\/p>\n

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The wait is over, we finally know who will tackle the role of Akasha, The Great Mother and Queen of the Damned, in \u201cThe Vampire Lestat.\u201d \u201cThe Woman King\u201d and \u201cBruised\u201d actress Sheila Atim will don the fangs as the ancient, terrifyingly powerful mother of vampires in the series, which offers the next installment in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2082933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2082932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/\u2018The-Vampire-Lestat-Has-Found-Its-Akasha-the-Queen-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082934,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082932\/revisions\/2082934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2082933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}